Transparency State University

 Looks like our enrollment has dropped 22% more than any other university in Houston.  Some of it can be blamed on the pandemic, but not all- some universities actually went up- in fact we hired someone as recently as May for enrollment improvement-  https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2020/05/why-are-we-spending-110000-on-job.html again.....WHAT IS GOING ON AT TSU????? https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/education/article/Houston-colleges-enrollment-not-experts-predict-15657866.php

Recall that we posted that a new Title IX coordinator had been appointed after Toni Gray resigned/terminated(?).  Dr. Fisher was appointed in June.  https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2020/06/new-title-ix-coordinator-announcedon_26.html It looks like someone named Bobby Brown has now been quietly installed as the new Title IX coordinator- no official announcement we can find however they are now listed on the TSU website- http://www.tsu.edu/about/administration/title-ix/index.html WHAT IS GOING ON AT TSU?????

This past weekend we were surprised when a SOPA professor emailed her congratulations to Dr. Ewoh, the Associate Dean of SOPA.  We weren’t surprised by her congratulations…but rather the timing of her congratulations.  It was 7 months late! :-(   Often we joke that SOPA seems to exist in an alternate universe and Covid certainly has slowed us down…..but 7 months to respond to an email?…..the strangest thing was that Dean Kieh jumped on the  same email and offered his congratulations to Dr. Ewoh almost immediately.  Very strange.    Unless of course, this was all planned in advance?  A self-congratulatory, feel-good, group admin pat on the back?  Maybe.    Stranger things have happened in SOPA.    

We want to welcome the 3 new BOR members of TSU just appointed by Gov. Abbott! https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-appoints-three-to-texas-southern-university-board-of-regents2  And just in time for our Thursday meeting-  https://meetings.boardbook.org/Public/Agenda/2066?meeting=402709 Welcome to TSU!