It would make a lot more sense to just close the school.
Too many indoctrination centers, disguised as universities, already.
They think they’ll get raises. LOLOLOL
Close all of the degree programs that have less than a 50% job placement rate in the first year after graduation.
EWU shouldn’t be in Div I. Ya got Wash State (and Gonzaga, tee-hee) for that nonsense.
Sounds like they are trying to avoid the tranny athlete controversy.
“and become widely known for our commitment to academic excellence “
Do they have any [your favorite PC “discipline” here] Studies programs? Then LOL on the “excellence”.
Hell, every school board in the country has probably pulled this stunt. When money is tight, just threaten to cut athletics and band. The parents revolt, taxes increases are approved, life goes on.
Perhaps the academes don’t like EWU’s red football field.
I would reconsider the "value" of any of those curricula. The school does offer STEM courses; most of those produce skills you can get paid for.
Give all school waivers from Title IX.
Some athletics ought not to e paid for by universities. On the other hand, they ought to close up the various ethnic studies which are useless degrees. Plus too many students study psychology, art history, etc.
Art History is an interesting topic. There are not very many good jobs available for these students. The university system should close some programs and have only one very good program of art history study within one state.
I know there are other subjects that ought to also e evaluated and either eliminated or some of the campuses close their programs.
Athletics/s[ports
What??? And devote a teaching institution to teaching instead of playing with a ball?
Don’t be absurd.
The football field at that school is made of RED astroturf.
An absolute assault on the eyeballs.
Cutting athletics there is likely a win.
Heaven forfend!! Cutting athletics?? In favor of academics???
What a novel idea. The next thing you know they’ll be advocating for vocational training.
“....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
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.