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(10-15-2017 03:47 PM)Old Blue Wrote:  

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(10-15-2017 08:46 AM)Mr.BigBlue Wrote:  Here is an idea for ya...dramatically increase out of state student rolls at ODU. Use the extra money too improve facilities ! This is not an increase in student fees ! 500 more out of state students increases our income by $7.5M/year. Increase online student participation as well. That is how Liberty has done so well. They have close to 40K students taking online courses. Tell the state we are going to do this our they can give us relief from Cox amendment.

In the Commonwealth of Virginia tuition money can not be used for athletics. Unless we can find a way to make Foreman 2.0 a classroom of some description that will not fly.

Full disclosure: I’m fine with putting a classroom or two or some kind of band practice space in Foreman 2.0 so it can be classified as an academic building. It would go a long way to solving our funding issues.

Also, someone wrote previously that on-line students pay little/nothing towards student fees that can be used towards athletics.

I firmly believe the online students should be paying the same as the students on the Norfolk campus with respect to athletics but it doesn’t matter at this point. The Cox bill has made it so we can only fund X% of the athletic budget with student fees. Getting more money from student fees doesn’t matter if we can’t spend it unless that awful law is killed or amended.

55% from a larger pool of students,(online students), means more money.

That, unfortunately, is not how it works. Its 55% of our athletic budget. So any dollars added from student fees have to be matched by donations.

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