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If you ask me, any university where the highest-paid employee is the football coach or the football program is the largest recipient of school funding should be ineligible for federal funds.
Have your football. Price gouge people for it. But our taxes shouldn't be subsidizing it when they should be serving the purpose of educating the next generation of workers.
What if it’s a profit center that helps pay for the important stuff? I don’t know about the colleges in question but I believe it’s true in at least some cases
What about Community Colleges and others that don’t have a sports program?
I’m sure there are places where the sports program is a huge waste of money, but trying to paint that as a problem for all schools is just falling for outrage media
I don't like sports ball, but for many of these schools football is a profit.
Then cut spending on bullshit. If they can't figure out how to run their college on $25k per student on average, then there is structural cost they need to address
You might look at part of the breakdown in that article. They have a graph showing where different types of schools get their funding from.
The one that strikes me is Community Colleges. Funding is about half tuition, half government. There are effectively no out of state students to fleece. Community College is typically bare bones: no sports programs, no dorms, no student enrichment, not much to cut.
Given inflation, Community Colleges need to increase instructor pay by a higher percentage than their increase in funding. Where do you propose they make up the difference?
Source? It says nothing about the impact of educator pay increases impacting community colleges more.
They can cut low enrollment programs and focus on apprenticeship, job skills, and transfer programs.
Additionally, the article states a ~2% increase with expenses projected to rise by ~3%. It can't be that hard to find 1% of the budget to cut.
I don't think it's a great idea to cut programs, but halting new enrollment and transfers might be ok. I don't like the idea of leaving the students hanging by canceling their programs mid degree
If you're in a program that is getting cut, let's face it, it's probably not something thar was going to result in a fruitful career anyway.
Take MSU Denver as an example, it's not necessary to have a major in Chicano or Africana studies, they could just get a history or anthropology degree instead. Why be so specific at the Bachelor's level when you're only career outcome is to keep studying until you get a PhD and then go on to teach in that subject?
Also, I highly doubt anyone on Broadway has an MSU Denver BFA in Theatre...just to name a few.