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Date Posted: 12:29:56 04/29/03 Tue
Author: NU Hoop Fan
Subject: Re: Future AE membership?
In reply to: UNH_Alum_In_CT 's message, "Re: Future AE membership?" on 11:05:51 04/29/03 Tue

Hey, I admire your loyalties to Central, but we need to start facing reality in New Britian...

So let me get this straight... Central belongs in the AE because...

- No one outside of New England and the Tri State area knows Binghamton and Albany. Those schools are significantly better than Central. And people confuse Central Connecticut with Yale all the time, I'm sure. Give me a break, Central is a step or two ahead of Southern when it comes to academics. I'm not claiming NU is Harvard, but come on, Central's academics aren't their strength, and in this league, that's what they're looking for.

- You claim Stony Brook is a commuter school, what's Central then?

- Funny, I worked in Fairfield County and in the Greater Hartford Area for an international firm for almost 5 years and neither my firm nor our competitors ever considered Central when it came to a strong business school. Western has the best business school of the "State Universities" in Connecticut, not Central.

- Central's got a good education program, it better be since it used to be called "New Britain Teacher's College."

Central's academic standards aren't up to those of the rest of the league, and as long as that's what the League Presidents are looking for, I think they'll be on the outside looking in.

They key for UMBC is that it was an excellent research institution. I don't see how CCSU (or QU, or SHU) fits in that scheme. I know this is the one area NU is focusing on in its goal to be a Top 100 National Institution because that's where the prestige is.

I agree with UNH, there's going to be a lot of conference movement in the next 3-5 years. Perhaps if NU and BU aren't in the AE, there's room for Central, but I know that the NU President didn't want to associate with Quinnipiac, so why he'd want to associate with CCSU, it's beyond me. I can't see BU going for it either.

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