07-27-2016, 04:57 PM
(07-27-2016, 09:48 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: I'm not going to spend the time to go to prior budgets and make comparisons. I can tell you, though, that the percentages of revenue sources and the expenditures has remained fairly stagnant. The only real change is a consistently decreasing percentage of revenue coming from the general fund, which is what the General Assembly allocates to us.
And, in case anyone is wondering about me providing this information, as a public university all of this is public record. All but the first image are actually pulled directly from our website. The first one is me condensing information taken from multiple files that can be obtained from our website.
That's very interesting. All looks very reasonable - for in-state tuition. And that's probably how it should work. Of course, if you're not smart enough to get into one of your better state schools....
But so either out-of-state students are getting gouged, or there's already a huge amount of money from state & federal going into college education (which, of course, is also true before we even get to subsidized loans). And probably a combination of both. There was a huge premium out-of-state at my school way back when I went there too, so always kind of been that way.
I did read some articles that said most of the increase is going to administrative costs. One school or system had seen like a 230% increase over the past decade in EMPLOYEES, and many of those are making 6-figures. There's some debate that this is caused by easy money (although most arguing against that appear to be college administrators
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