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Originally Posted by bnk
This may just pie in the sky but at least some are thinking about all of Illinois grads not getting accepted in state and having to go to other Big Ten schools. Could NIU do it too. The article never mentioned them.
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Yeah this will fizzle out but I think seeking Big Ten membership for NIU or ISU is putting the cart before the horse... build academic programs that students want to get into, and prestige will come.
Right now those universities are not operating at the level of UIUC or Indiana or OSU, and conference membership won't do dick about that.
I also think it's foolish to try and stop brain drain... smart, talented Americans have always left their hometowns and home states and moved on to bigger/better things. Doesn't matter how nice the hometown is or what jobs are available. If you don't want to be shrinking, you need to be growing... attracting outsiders to come in, through domestic migration or immigration, is the answer. Retaining your best and brightest native sons just isn't possible, period.