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The top pay goes to medical doctors, the football/basketball coaches and some admins. This money isn't coming necessarily directly from tuition costs. I agree
by theGnuMe 4y ago
The top pay goes to medical doctors, the football/basketball coaches and some admins. This money isn't coming necessarily directly from tuition costs. I agree though it is too expensive. Universities are always building new buildings.
- HDThoreaun 4y agoNew buildings are funded by donors who might not have donated without the building.
- domoritz 4y agoAnd universities need buildings.
- DrThunder 4y ago[dead]
- downrightmike 4y agoIf they don't have building by now, and they already have a billion dollar endowment, they can spend what they have or use the resources wisely.
- AlbertCory 4y agoWhen I visited my alma mater, I told them I wanted to endow a chair in the CS Department. Not a professorship; an actual, physical chair. They weren't amused. I think they'd heard that one before.
- passwordoops 4y agoNext time show up with the chair
- feet 4y agoPart of the problem is that in some states, state funding can only be used for buildings and nothing else. So universities get funding and are forced to spend it on nonsense
- alistairSH 4y agoThat's a statement I haven't heard - do you have a source? Not doubting it, just want to read more.
- feet 4y agohttps://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-cb-illinois-colleges-state-budget-20190619-ciz3kc7uxvg75ntwvhyfutx4ca-story.html https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-cb-illinois-colleges-...
- hardwaregeek 4y agoFootball/basketball makes money for the school. If anything it's a little absurd that the players make so much money for the university with little to no compensation for themselves.
- ladberg 4y agoFor some schools sure, but do you have any proof of that for Berkeley? I'm an alum and as much as I'd like that to be true I haven't seen anything better than handwavey guesses. Last year the top 6 highest paid employees at Berkeley were all coaches or athletics administrators, of which the highest (head football coach Justin Wilcox) was paid $4 million. The football team isn't anything special, consistently coming in middle of the pack and not drawing in huge crowds. The people rooting for Cal are doing it out of college/hometown spirit and not because we think our team is the best. If instead of $4M we spent $200k on a coach, would that change the outcomes at all? That would save $84/student per year in tuition, which is not a negligible amount.
- NobodyNada 4y ago> If instead of $4M we spent $200k on a coach […] that would save $84/student per year in tuition I don’t know how California state schools are run, but at least in Oregon it doesn’t work like this. The athletics programs are funded from a completely different pot of money than the academics, specifically so that football spending doesn’t affect tuition. At Oregon State University (where I’m currently a grad student), the football program is profitable and brings in enough ticket sales to pay for itself and all the rest of the athletics programs too.
- theGnuMe 4y agoRight and they could use some of that money to lower tuition but they don't.
- SoftTalker 4y agoThey use that money to fund all the scholarships and expenses for the non-revenue sports.