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ACT: AcademicSuccess: Again: Attitude: Competitive: Creativity: ExCuricular: FAttitude1: FAttitude2: FAttitude3: FAttitude4: FAttitude5: FAttitude6: FacultyAcc: Friendly: FromArea: FundingUse: Gender: GradYear: Grounds: Intellect: Maint: MindExpect: MindUse: Programs: SAT: SAttitude1: SAttitude2: SAttitude3: SAttitude4: SAttitude5: SAttitude6: SAttitude7: SAttitude8: Safety: Social: Standing: SurroundingCity: TAclasses: USE_THIS_DATA: Usefulwork: Worth: No/invalid Email Address left I attended a higher-echelon prep school. The school was very tightly night, and steeped in tradition. The education I received was phenomenal. DePauw definitely masquerades as the same. It has a beautiful campus and a long history. It's just NOT what its cracked up to be, however.Academically, DePauw is OK. I have had some wonderful professors that truly cared. I've had some professors who cared, but can't teach to save their lives. Unfortunately, I have met more than one professor, however, who does not seem to care about teaching, but is rather kept around for reputation in his or her field. The honors programs are a joke too. I started at DePauw as a media fellow. he program turned out to be very weak. The only heavy involvement is your first year, as well as your last semester at DePauw. You're expected to do a semester long internship…but do nothing but a monthly lunch for the remaining 4 semesters. The program was far too invested in theory, and gave me little true media experience. DePauw is also making it obvious that its concern for the induvidual, as a student, is waning. It often seems that professors and their research are research are priority over students. A perfect example of this is the new Prindle Institute for Ethics, a beautiful multi million dollar facility NOT for use by students. Meanwhile, some of the student living is falling apart and very very old, the Lilly Center is far undersized and far overused, and many materials in the library, until recently, were off limits to students. Mind you, this is strictly and undergrad school.The administration manages the University about as well as an inner-city McDonalds. This past school year, the University ran out f space for the incoming class, so the administration decided to remove study lounges from the dorms to make more space. Good luck dealing with the financial aid office. After returning from a semester away, I never received my scholarship because theydidn't know I was back on campus,yet the cash receipts office sure did send that first bill quickly. I know people that have flat out lost their FAFSA standing because of bad information given by the University. Not only does the University prioritize faculty, it is just flat out unfriendly to students. The "community standards" process is very closed, and givens students very little opportunity to defend themselves. The deans run on an unofficial guilty until proven innocent system, which rarely happens. DePauw is also very very bad about following FERPA, the family educational rights and privacy act. Admissions, as well as the deans, have obsessed themselves with diversity. Any old, long standing traditions have gone out the window in the name of progress, erasing any "old school" feelings the university has tried to play up. Please understand, I'm not just talking about racial diversity.Each year, DePauw has recruited odder and odder students whom are starting to clash with the upperclassmen. The majority of students are too quiet, while a hippie culture is starting to take over. Anything "traditional" is immediately protested and shot down and a very vocal, and rather obnoxious minority. If it's not progressive or liberal, it's "no good." Student Congress has become a whine-fest for small groups of students who feel "victimized" or somehow disenfranchised and bring everyone else down with them. Again, I am not necessarily referring to race.Finally, while DePauw's backbone is, and has forever been, the backbone of the University, recent administrators are doing their best to undermine it. Since my freshman year, rampant policy changes and "crack downs" have frustrated the heavily greek student body. The University purposely built (a small number) of houses and apartments to lure upperclassmen out of the fraternity houses. Rush numbers are declining system wide, and the university has turned its shoulder. Instead of helping, it simply has made an attempt to buy greek property. The administration has created numerous new policies to control greeks (who live in PRIVATELY owned houses), to a point that DePauw over extends its power. There's not enough space here to go into detail.But the scariest part—this sounds like a very bitter post from someone burned by the university. I'm not—I'm just your average student.I fear the future is dark for DePauw, and I expect to see loyal alumni jumping ship, with no new young loyal alumni to replace them. |
