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RE: Latest USA Today Football Program Budgets
Thanks BP. Your research supports what I said.
Lin Rose told me years ago that the state made spending difficult due to budgeting restrictions. If he had excess funds in the rec center budget he could not reallocate those monies to the library's budget. This meant he would have to close the library earlier than the rec center due to funding. This was just an example but his point was that the school had the money but the state makes schools allocate to each bucket and the schools can't take from one to the other. Carrier being the guy who was always looking to get around road blocks started raising fees instead of tuition because fees are not restricted the way tuition is.
Years ago VT, UVA and W & W all threatened to go private due to the states restrictive policies. They all had the private funding to do so as they were all taking 15% or less of their funding from the state. The state grouped them together in a separate "category of schools" and allowed them to operate more independently to keep these schools as state schools.
I hope this information will stop the constant whining about fees at JMU. The money is used to run the operations of the university. It also allows JMU more autonomy as to where it is allocated.
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