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The CSUs are hemorrhaging students. Undergraduate enrollment is down 25% in the past decade at ECSU and it is hard to see what can turn enrollment around. The state wants UConn to INCREASE enrollment and build more campus housing in Storrs. Why not take advantage of the underutilized infrastructure at ECSU? There are less than 4k undergrads at ECSU now.The State universities, Central, Easter, Western, Southern, are different and have different missions from UConn. They are more teaching focused and less dedicated to research which is really UConn’s bread and butter. The regional schools are comparable to places like the traditional MAC schools, the MASCAC schools in Massachusetts. They have a different role than UConn.
In the 1980s, there was talk of closing ECSU or merging it with UConn.