Learn about Mountaintop. Request Info. Get Involved. Browse Housing. View Safety Info. Watch Live. Buy Tickets. Seriously, do not underestimate the value of fun to an eighteen-year-old! Your efforts have not gone unnoticed by those eighteen-year-olds, Vice President Hall.
It is also only a matter of time until contributions dry up from the disenfranchised Greeks whose houses have been dissolved, many within the past few years kudos again, VP Hall! Nothing like cutting off your nose to spite your face. And during a decade of declining college enrollment, especially now during the pandemic, when many schools are tightening their belts and looking for ways to survive, the fact that Lehigh wants to expand its student body and increase capital expenditures over the next ten years mainly based on the generosity of its betrayed alumni surely seems like a recipe for disaster.
Even in the workplace, I have heard that Lehigh is not viewed by employers as the powerhouse it once was. It has been supplanted by schools our students used to look down their noses at. As Lehigh has dropped in the rankings, so has its perceived value to employers, parents, and potential students alike. I love Lehigh, or more accurately the Lehigh that once was, so it gives me no great pleasure in pointing out what many already know is true.
I hope I am wrong, and that Lehigh can shine again. But Lehigh has a sorry history of creating many of its own problems, and it appears that the recent initiatives by the administration to remake Lehigh into something it is not are backfiring in spectacular fashion.
So, unless and until something drastically changes within the administration, I fear the worst. And it is sad to watch indeed. Totally agree. I think the answer is that the board has to reevaluate president Simon. Sadly I think he spearheaded this decline. Plain and simple. Every school accords the country has been raising tuition, yet their applicants do not seem to be declining. Applicants are decreasing because of all of the actions the administration has taken to ruin the charm of Lehigh.
We are college students. I think the best part about students at Lehigh was that we were able to have so much fun while still maintaining good grades, a high GPA, and getting good jobs after graduation. The school, however, chooses to completely ignore this fact as they try to get rid of Greek life and diversify the student body. However, if you want sociable, outgoing, fun, and smart students stop with the 10 point plan and all of the other bullshit.
Get a clue. Pretty every single student could have seen this happening months ago. Lehigh students do not have to change, the administration does. About 41 percent report now that they did not party at all. I went to an ivy a couple of years after Lehigh and spent a great deal of time with undergrads and grads alike.
There was less partying and less drinking. Ricardo Hall single handedly ruined the greek system at Lehigh. He needs to be fired. National Rankings are directly affected by alumni donations and endowment size along with academic rigor.
Building the Health School was never needed and adding an additional students is leading to mediocrity. Lehigh was always about prestige and the fact that not everyone belonged there. Lehigh was a great school because of small class sizes, a rigorous engineering and business curriculums, work hard, play hard student engagement, and dedicated alumni powered by the greek system who still cared enough about the future of Lehigh and their legacy.
Its a shame to see such a down turn in numbers and I hope Lehigh and the board will stop trying to copy other schools course of action and stick with what we were known for and what we were best at. Stop the hemorrhage and change the course of action before we lose what built the brown and white for what we are. The board needs to take control and realize that we are on the path to mediocrity, not prominence. Apps are down sharply everywhere. Even the elites are off by thousands of applicants.
A new study , based on millions of anonymous tax records, shows that some colleges are even more economically segregated than previously understood, while others are associated with income mobility. Below, estimates of how Lehigh compares with its peer schools in economic diversity and student outcomes. The share of children who were from the bottom fifth of incomes as students and moved to the top fifth as adults.
This measure reflects both access and outcomes, representing the likelihood that a student at Lehigh moved up two or more income quintiles.
The chart below shows how Lehigh and its peer schools are comparing with the remaining schools analyzed in the study. You can click on any point in the chart to navigate to that school. Please upgrade your browser. School type Other elite schools public and private. Racial-Ethnic Diversity Ranking out of Racial-Ethnic Diversity Score Student Gender Ratio out of Faculty Gender Ratio Student Location Diversity 91 out of Student Age Diversity Find Schools Near You.
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