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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][mastodon]y[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another year with ND in the top 20. Another year the haters will say it won't last. Always get a chuckle out of this.[/quote]

Notre Dame is 3.59% black. Shameful[/quote]

The football and basketball teams. [/quote]
Oh get over yourselves. ND is heavily Catholic, and there are not many black Catholics. BTW, your beloved UVA is only a few percentage points more black at 7% even though it is a state school in a state that is certainly much more black than that. [/quote]

You are an idiot. And not a good
Catholic/Christian. UVA  is public. ND is private with an enormous endowment that boosters on here brag about - it can throw millions at its diversity problem but chooses not to.

UVA is public. It is relatively small for a flagship and has very limited resources. It has become so selective that it can pick the very best black applicants both in-state and OOS. And why us that not a problem? Because the commonwealth has 30+ other public schools (including the community college guaranteed transfer program) to see to the needs of all Virginians. My DS attended GMU which is the most diverse university in the state with black attendance at 11.4%

And by the way any statistician or anyone in Higher Ed can tell you you cannot compare black percentages of college applicants to overall state demographics for the same reason you can't with hispanic population numbers in CS.

Notre Dame can do much better![/quote]

Just to inform you... you realize UVA has a 14 billion endowment right? Not exactly chump change.[/quote]

Let me "inform you". The Commonwealth decided to start budget reductions to UVA in 2008. UVA decided at that point to spin off towards privatization (see Teresa Sullivan's tenure) to the low point where, today, the total Commmonwealth contribution is only six percent.

What happened? The UVA endowment officers secured amazing returns. UVA's endowment as a shot up under privitisation from less than six million to ten million.  The governor and the legislatiure tried to retrieve its power over UVA  to regain control. and they failed,

When my DD entered UVA in 2016 everyone knew this. By then UVA's endowment had doubled under privitazation from a low of $6m,

In 2021, UVA endowment officers secured a gain of 41.%. The Commonwealth is still trying to regain control if UVA's wildly successful  tide.

Meanwhile, to contrast PP's ignorant post, Harvard's endowment is $6.9 billion. and if you to confine analysis to publics, , UCLA is ay 3.87 billiion. Berkeley is $7.8 billion.  And U of Michigan is a whopping $17.9 billion.

And jerks like you are sitting on Notre Dame's  $18.9 billion dolllars and pointing fingers at UVA's  endowment at $15m. What is wrong with you? Shame on you! Where is Christian giving i. all of this!! Call ND and ask them to throw money at diversity candidates[/quote]

UVA has not been privatized.  There was a restructuring act, and it included more than UVA.  https://www.schev.edu/institutions/planning-performance/restructuring-act[/quote]

DP. They said "towards privitization". It receives only 6% of its budget from the Commonwealth. I don't know what you would call that but no one walks around UVA talking about it being "restructured". [/quote]

They don't talk about it being private, that's for sure.  In practice, UVA would have to buy all the land and physical plant from the State and that isn't going to happen.

As for the 6%, you should give some context.  No general fund money has ever gone to support the medical system operating budget, which is supported by patient-related fees, and that is well over half of UVA's budget.  So the 6% now only applies to about 42% of the overall budget, which means it is about 14% of the academic budget.  But the academic budget includes auxiliary operations spending like room and board, which also have not historically been supported by state general funds at any state institution.  So the 6% is offsetting quite a bit of what would need to be made up in higher tuition for in-state students if UVA actually were private.  [b]If you look at this on a per capita in state student basis, UVA gets far more than schools like JMU and GMU. [/quote][/b]

Not true. JMU gets 18% of its budget from the commonwealth; GMU received 35% or more from the legislature[/quote]

The data is available online.  UVA appropriations from the state general fund per in-state Full Time Equivalent student was $11,432 for FY 2023.  GMU was $8,194.  JMU was $7,994.

https://research.schev.edu/rdPage.aspx?finance&rdReport=finance.FP01_Report[/quote]

So UVA actually gets 40% more from the state per in-state student than GMU and 43% more than JMU.[/quote]

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