“Crime increasing”, “CU…dealing with increased crime” - where is the evidence to support these claims of increase?
“Housing is so limited: after freshman year, students are no longer guaranteed housing” - CU has never guaranteed housing beyond freshman year, not in over 100 years.
“Is it to combat the high attrition rate? Why is retention so low?” - CU has an 88% retention rate for freshman entering in the fall of 2016 and returning in 2017 the last year that this stat has been reported on the 2017-2018 common data set.
Yes, housing is expensive. Boulder has laws against population and housing growth that go back 30+ years. But is should be more expensive then Gainsville given the massive quality of life differences between them. Boulder favors quite favorably to Berkley, especially south of campus.
There is nothing new in these indictments that hasn’t been happening for decades; happening on college campuses, college towns, and urban environments for as long as there have been young people consuming alcohol and drugs. These behaviors aren’t to be excused, yet to be shocked by its existence is Itself shocking. There is no final straw that will break the camels back at CU, it’s life as it’s always been.
Where we can all have common ground is that CU and Boulder is not for everyone. Boulder is far, far from perfect. Find me a single state university that doesn’t have all of the same human problems because I don’t know of it’s existence.