(03-26-2020 09:25 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(03-25-2020 05:47 PM)Duke Dawg Wrote:  Yep.

Another example is our band.

One of the largest and most well thought of in the country. Won numerous awards. Routinely asked to march in Macy’s thanksgiving parade.

It has reached that status because our university music department is also well reknown nationally.

Jmu spends in excess of. $1million a year on expenses for the band.

Guess where that cost is charged? You got it. Athletics. With the student fee allocated to support it.

How many other schools have $1m in marching band expense wrapped inside a “student athletic” fee?

The rub here isn't the prevalence but more that tuition has exploded in cost in the past several decades -- soaring into places where it's now not hard to find 4-year degree paths at most universities and some entire universities have negative returns on investment. If you were to ask the students I think you'd find they'd kindly appreciate the alumni or an endowment cover those costs given the financial backdrop they're working in. But as you mention everybody does it. So it's like trying to find a cable TV company that doesn't suck. Good luck: they're all on the same page pretty much.

When I went to Texas, instate tuition and fees were just over $400 a year. They tripled in 1985 and have continued to go up since. Next year it will be $11,042.