Also, there is a trend in higher education to conduct the school more like a business. Unfortunately, trends are not always the way to go. In businesses, things like layoffs happen. Sometimes corners need to be cut because Although RLHS becoming independent may not cause serious problems for the students, if the situation is extrapolated out, more problems could arise. Undergraduates could hypothetically be facing complex financial issues.
All undergraduates have to take classes from each school for general education requirements.
That sounds ridiculous, but leave it to AU to increase bureaucracy. If more and more pieces of AU go independent, it could get difficult for students to handle their accounts, courses and other vital aspects of university life. In the interest of providing good service for students, AU should seriously consider the kind of complications that its business decisions would create for undergraduate and graduate students. While graduate affairs are more limited to individual schools, undergraduates run the other half of this campus, and that needs to be remembered.