… Kentucky University. Among America’s worst universities, WKU has a president who, faced with hard facts (via the Knight Commission) about his school’s indifference to anything other than athletics, says “There’s no good that can come from making statistical comparisons to try to prove a point.”
From the moment one of its trustees told a faculty member worried about the school’s switch to Division 1-A football that “People on this board dedicate their time for free. They have better things to do than let some university professor just keep talking,” UD has had a weakness for brainless, money-hemorrhaging, Bobby Petrino-worshipping WKU.
WKU spends over $36,000 per student-athlete and only $11,000 per full-time student — nearly a $25,000 gap — according to a study by the Knight Commission, a third-party organization that looks at both academic and athletic spending for universities across the country.
Faculty regent Patricia Minter raised concern over the spending disparity in last month’s Board of Regents meeting, citing the study and other statistics in her sole opposition [to] new head football coach Jeff Brohm’s contract.
“Faculty find it devastating that we continue to pay such large amounts of money for something that is ultimately really nice and fine, but it’s not the essential part of the university mission,” she said. “Apparently, we don’t have a problem underfunding the vital parts of the university mission, and that continues to be troubling.”
Sole opposition. Some broad. Figures.