If they can't hire teachers, that affects class size and class availability. The budget cuts have been tough on everybody.

It could have been used for a wide variety of things. It wasn't an admissions recruitment thing exclusively. However, we would have gone on the weekends.

We definitely have people that are not getting in.

We're trying to target students who are eligible here with the new admissions requirements.

Once we did that we gathered whatever transcript that we needed to determine their status and if they were eligible for admission. Financial aid has been working with all these students, too. That's pretty much all they had to do.

I think that when you look at the master plan for post secondary education and where the state can best use its resources, it's going to achieve that purpose.

We were in constant communication with them throughout the semester. We wanted to make it clear that we understood that they were visiting students, and we were here to aid the institutions in New Orleans that were closed.

There are a lot of recruitment activities that are always on-going. That's part of what the admissions office mission is for recruiting.

It hurts for a couple of years.