Obstacles

Suggested Obstacles

• Building revenue without increasing tuition.
• Technology advancing rapidly making online learning a challenge.
• Lack of knowledge how to market and expand programs.
• Competing with amount of online experiences from other universities.
• Locality does not create diversity.
• How to compete with the football power houses.
• Perception that WSU is "less than" KU or KSU.
• Cost of education rising.
• Lack of good marketing.
• Inferiority complex.
• Insufficient budget for aspirations.
• Low number of traditional students.
• Lack of traditional university culture.
• No football program.
• No law school, etc.
• Difficult to change the culture.
• Location.
• Campus housing due to people working full time, married, kids. etc.
• No increased parking with increasing enrollment.
• What student population do we want to cater to?
• New federal financial aid rules.
• Lower cost of community colleges.
• Confusion about what we want WSU to be.
• Image.
• Urban school with rural mascot.

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