Public universities, including the land grant universities, are being hard hit by the economic downturn. An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education today (registration required) reports on a survey of the members of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities. Sixty of the 87 responding institutions say that they have experienced cuts to their […]
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Colleges Cut Costs By Cutting Sports
Yesterday I mentioned that the economic downturn has affected faculty recruitment at many universities, including the University of California system. Thus budget cutbacks are having a negative impact on the educational experience of students. Universities are also cutting sports–or at least slashing their budgets. Very few NCAA sports programs break even, and even fewer make […]