Isn’t their attendance already dropping low enough?
How are they going to justify those professor’s $400,000 salaries when they have no more students?
Oh come on now, the only professors making $400k bring in a ton of research money.
http://irep.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/98/2014/02/p48-49.pdf
Sometimes professors get a cut of the research grants that they bring in....to get $400k you’d need to bring in quite a bit.
Ole Miss might have a couple of professors who are making that kind of salary but not many. If they do, they are probably bringing in 10-20 times that much annually in research grants. There's your justification.
Most professors at Ole Miss probably don't make much more in salary than a star football player gets in under-the-table payments from boosters and a small fraction of what the head football coach gets.
Profs with monster salaries are almost always coaches, administrators, or in medicine. None of those have very much directly to do with the number of students being talked bout. And most universities have huge endowments that pay the salaries of a lot of professors.