Raed a very intersesting article in saturdays Chicago Sun-Times newspaper under the section 'VOICES' by Jay Rosentein a professor at Illinois.. It talked about the exhorbenet cost of tuition for college at U of Illinois and a plan to significantly reduce the cost. I am sorry but I don't know how to link it. It is an entertaining read. If someone else could link it that would be great otherwise you can read his plan @ www.loweruofituition.org.
He basically states that the NCAA schools are getting $7billion dollars under the new ESPN contract for the college footabll playpoffs which equals an extra 24 million dollars per year for each BIG school. 90% of this money should be used to reduce tuition and the other 10% given to the athletic budget. The 3 highest paid employees at Il are in the athletic dept. and 6 of the 9 highest paid are in the athletic dept., i.e, for schools that are supposed to be in the business of education this is NUTS.
He basically states that the NCAA schools are getting $7billion dollars under the new ESPN contract for the college footabll playpoffs which equals an extra 24 million dollars per year for each BIG school. 90% of this money should be used to reduce tuition and the other 10% given to the athletic budget. The 3 highest paid employees at Il are in the athletic dept. and 6 of the 9 highest paid are in the athletic dept., i.e, for schools that are supposed to be in the business of education this is NUTS.
