Yup, that's right. "Affordable Success" is the motto of Fort Hays State University, better known as FHSU. For years this college has been ridiculed by others for their slogan as a school that just hands out degrees. This has hurt many graduates in their job seeking voyage. We briefly touched on this topic in class Thursday after I brought up The Hays Daily News' front page article, "FHSU ranks in upper tier" by Will Manly, found in th September 6, 2007 edition.
The article begins by saying how FHSU scored in the top 10 percent of most improved students. "The Collegiate Learning Assessment, conducted by the New York-based Council for Aid to Education, ranked FHSU higher than 90 percent of other colleges and universities assessed in improvement in writing, critical thinking and analytical reasoning skills." From what I understand from the CLA website, the test focuses on real-life situations in which the students have to explain how they would handle the problem.
I am not going to lie. My first thoughts on the "Affordable Success" motto were not positive. I kept thinking how tacky it made the university sound! BUT... it does speak true. FHSU's tution is considerably lower than other universities in the state and obviously from this article they are producing graduates with the smarts to succeed. The motto is short, sweet, and to-the-point. Maybe we should be less worried about how it makes us look and a little more focused on changing everyone's thoughts about us!
Fort Hays State University created a brochure outlining their plan to fulfill the promise of Affordable Success. Their idea is to translate vision into results.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
3 comments:
I'm glad to have found FHSU .They give their online students an in-state tuition rate and that helps. The peole out there have been extremely helpful and friendly. When I decided to return to school online those were the reasons I chose FHSU the large numbers of other schools available for an online education.
Affordable Success can mean so many things and taken out of context in many ways...
I find it to mean that you can get a successful college goal ie a degree that you want and that can help you do well in the society today, it may not be the end all for what you would want to do, but getting started at a reasonable rate with out too much debt helps...
Thank you fellows for your positive look on the school motto! Not many people will agree with us. I am glad to see there is support.
Post a Comment