When did Tulane become a national university?

fallenchemist
Tue, 16 Aug 2016 09:19:39 +0000

@EarlVanDorn

A timely article in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education. Here is the summary:

On the subject of the migration of college freshmen, two things are clear: Most stay within their home state’s borders, and the rest tend to go to private colleges in neighboring states. It’s already known that more than a third of freshmen stay within 50 miles of home, but what the interactive map clearly shows is that even those who stray beyond tend to stay in the region.

Of course Tulane isn’t the only school with a significant geographic diversity, but it is in a relatively small and exclusive group. Some highlights (from 1998-2014):

CA has virtually tripled in representation
IL has increased about 70%
Southern representation has decreased from 33% to 25%

That last puts the pre-Katrina/post-Katrina argument to rest. Katrina was in 2005. in 1998 524 students were from those southern states I listed. In 2014 it was 404. The loss from the south is almost entirely accounted for by the gain in CA. But it would be tough to argue that about 2/3 of the class being from outside of the south in 1998 wasn’t representative of a national university. In 2014 it is about 75%, certainly a shift which, as I said, is largely accounted for by the west coast effect.

http://chronicle.com/interactives/where-does-your-freshman-class-come-from?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=b1b17dd91e474549b18ef181c2a5f3ca&elq=a3f05b3c5e874ffa8c2b722dee98dd0f&elqaid=10257&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=3833#id=inst_217156