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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Maybe, but you clearly don't understand how state u budgeting works. Very little of the funding is state appropriations. Some of it is tuition. MOST of it is donors / fundraising / grants, etc. If the English department could do some stellar fundraising, they could get a $21 million building, too. Just happens that athletics is one of the easiest areas to fund (ticket sales, gear, merchandise, big name donors).[/quote] My point is that the universities are not short on money. Virginia Tech has an endowment fund that is approaching a billion dollars. PPs asked why professors are paid so little, as if we don't value education enough to pay them for it. My point is that the universities would have *NO PROBLEM* paying more for professors, but they don't have to because there is an abundance of well qualified professors who can teach. If we want to be outraged about the education system, we should be focused on the fact that a school like Virginia tech would build a $21M structure just so the football players don't have to practice in rain/snow. This is the level of waste that is going on all the while millennials are complaining about having huge student loan debt from useless degrees. *CLEARLY* a publicly funded school like Virginia Tech has *NO* reasonable justification for increasing tuition when they very clearly has no need for the additional money for the purpose of providing high quality education. [/quote]
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