(09-17-2023 03:43 PM)Side.Show.Joe Wrote: (09-16-2023 10:35 PM)goliath74 Wrote: (09-15-2023 06:37 PM)Side.Show.Joe Wrote: 46,940 students are now at UNT this year. That increase will have a direct impact on UNT's athletic budget. With an enrollment increase of over 5%, the athletic budget will increase this year by over 5%, just from our student fee. Now, we just have to figure out how to win on the field.
https://twitter.com/UNTPrez/status/17027...ysJWw9mToQ
FIU is asking if that should matter...
Of course it matters. UNT charges students an athletic fee. So, any increase in enrollment equates to an increase in athletic department funding. Just based on the increase in our enrollment, UNT athletics has about $5million more to spend annually compared to just a few years ago.
this is nonsense
in 2014 the student fee was responsible for $10,674,831 of the budget
in 2018 it was responsible for $10,555,896
in 2019 it was responsible for $12,613,611, but there was a per hour increase approved by students so that had nothing to do with enrollment
in 2022 it was responsible for $13,251,782
so from 2014 to 2022 there was an increase of $2,576,951 (half of the $5 million claimed) and pretty much all of that was from an increase in the fee not an increase in enrollment
total enrollment in 2014 was 36,164
in 2022 total enrollment was 44,336
so a total growth of 8,172 students....the fee is capped at 15 credit hours as well, but not all students take a full 15 hours especially graduate students
so at most an increase of 2,700 students, if they were all full time undergrads taking 15 hours, would be 2,700 X 15 X $16.25 for a total of $658,125 and adding that to the total of $2,576,951 from 2014 to 2022 still is just over $3 million and nowhere close to $5 million and a large % of that growth was from an increase in the actual fee not enrollment increases
and I think 8 years is more than "just a few years ago"
more than likely this enrollment growth will result in about $400,000 more to spend and most of that will be eaten up with some new VP Assistants to the Assistant VP of Assisting Athletics Assistance which is what north Texas state has really been "winning at" lately.....adding administration