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Faculty Members of Eastern Washington U. Propose Cutting Athletics to Fund Academics
Legal Insurrection ^ | February 19, 2020 | Mike LaChance

Posted on 02/21/2020 7:16:15 AM PST by CheshireTheCat

It’s not a good sign when different departments at a school start suggesting cutting each other.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: athletics; educationfunding; highereducation
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To: CheshireTheCat

The football field at that school is made of RED astroturf.
An absolute assault on the eyeballs.

Cutting athletics there is likely a win.


21 posted on 02/21/2020 8:06:33 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: budj

Close the school.

Save the planet!


22 posted on 02/21/2020 8:08:14 AM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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To: WASCWatch

Not singling out Eastern Washington.

The whole university paradigm must change. Student loan debt in the U.S. is now well over a trillion dollars. The “ universities “ share none of that burden.

They are only interested in enriching themselves on the backs of their students, while teaching mostly worthless, far-left, WOKE nonsense.


23 posted on 02/21/2020 8:10:30 AM PST by BrexitBen
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To: dangus

“EWU shouldn’t be in Div I. Ya got Wash State (and Gonzaga, tee-hee) for that nonsense.”

Bingo!


24 posted on 02/21/2020 8:10:37 AM PST by Nuke From Orbit
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To: CheshireTheCat

Heaven forfend!! Cutting athletics?? In favor of academics???


25 posted on 02/21/2020 8:14:11 AM PST by babble-on
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To: WASCWatch
Why do you say the school is worthless? Did you graduate from EWU? At one time, it had a very good reputation as a regional school, at least prior to the mid-1970s when I graduated. At that time, it was also very conservative.

I grew up in that neck of the woods and there is nothing wrong with an EWU degree. It might not have a lot of national recognition but if you get a degree in a marketable discipline, the degree will land you a job. It will also get you into a graduate program at a more prestigious university if that is the student's plan.

EWU is a classic commuter school serving the Spokane area. (That term is used descriptively, not disparagingly.) With the availability of on-line classes and the branches campus movement from more prestigious universities, the commuter schools may become a thing of the past in the evolving economy.

It may well be that EWU cannot support both academics and athletics at a reasonable level. If so, athletics is the less valuable component in the university's mission.

26 posted on 02/21/2020 8:22:53 AM PST by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

What a novel idea. The next thing you know they’ll be advocating for vocational training.


27 posted on 02/21/2020 8:34:59 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: dangus

EWU’s mascot is the Eagles. Why not the Ewoks?


28 posted on 02/21/2020 8:44:14 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: budj

They also offer Chicana/o/x Studies.


29 posted on 02/21/2020 8:48:54 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: G Larry

Now here is the most intelligent solution to education I have ever heard!! Brilliant!! A dynamically changing educational system based on necessities in the marketplace!


30 posted on 02/21/2020 9:07:51 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: CheshireTheCat

“....start suggesting cutting each other.”

This isn’t new. But it is different when it is being suggested to cut the department that supplies a huge amount of next year’s budget to the institution.

Even though the gap between football and the rest of the sports is jarring, while the average school generates $31.9 million in football revenue each year, the next 35 sports on average generate $31.7 million combined each year. And what do you do about the

So cutting sports may be an answer to the shortfall, but haw many millions of bucks are going to be forfeited that would have gone to student needs like book availability or test tubes? And then what are they going to do about Title IX? As a whole, women’s sports do not draw the income of the men’s football program alone. So how many sports are going to go and what will the breakdown be to balance the spending since the earnings is so variant but is required to be gender balanced?

The what do you do about sponsoring a transgender athlete?

Here is some interesting info:

https://www.ncaa.org/sites/default/files/Transgender_Handbook_2011_Final.pdf

Reference pages 12 and 13.

rwood


31 posted on 02/21/2020 9:24:30 AM PST by Redwood71
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To: CheshireTheCat

Not surprising, as they ARE “academics” and want to be funded.

ACADEMIC (AK-a-DEM-ik) An individual educated beyond his intelligence who is unable to create or provide goods or services of value to others, who while hiding out in a college or university pontificates and expects to be paid for it, usually from public funds.


32 posted on 02/21/2020 10:10:25 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: BrexitBen

Both my wife and my daughter got their degrees from EWU. It is actually a good school.


33 posted on 02/25/2020 4:36:04 PM PST by RainMan (rainman)
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To: WASCWatch

They used to offer aeronautical engineering.


34 posted on 02/25/2020 4:38:50 PM PST by shotgun
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