… warns Bloomberg.
Pish posh.
The Bloomberg writers rehearse all the familiar outrages –
Rutgers University forgave $100,000 of the football coach’s interest-free home loan last year. The women’s basketball coach got monthly golf and car allowances. Both collected bonuses without winning a championship.
Meanwhile, the history department took away professors’ desk phones to save money and shrank its doctoral program by 25 percent. After funding cuts by the deficit-strapped Legislature, New Jersey’s state university froze professors’ salaries, cut the use of photocopies for exams and jacked up student tuition, housing and other fees.
Rutgers also increased funding for sports. The 245-year-old school spent more money on athletics than any other public institution in the six biggest football conferences during the 2009-2010 fiscal year, based on data compiled by Bloomberg. More than 40 percent of sports revenue came from student fees and the university’s general fund.
— that sort of thing… But no one cares. A few odd professors maybe.
The tension the writers are picking up on has to do with fans worrying about how their teams are going to do this year.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:47AM
And, also, athletics helps a University deal with the plague of academic integrity.
October 6th, 2011 at 12:10PM
Fantastic headline, MattF. I’ve posted about it. Thanks.
October 6th, 2011 at 8:13PM
I wish someone would take away MY desk phone! E-mail brings both good news and problems, but when the phone rings, it’s never anything good.