CSN Log
June 18th, 2013, 06:40 PM
06-18-2013 07:20 PM
America’s colleges and universities used more than $2 billion in student fees — an average of more than $500 per student — to subsidize rapidly growing university athletic budgets, as Ohio University professor Richard Vedder wrote at Bloomberg today. Those fees can top $1,000 a year at some schools, and as Vedder writes, reliance on them ends up making college more expensive for students and often places the burden on the poorest students. And most of the time, students don’t even know they’re paying the fees.
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America’s colleges and universities used more than $2 billion in student fees — an average of more than $500 per student — to subsidize rapidly growing university athletic budgets, as Ohio University professor Richard Vedder wrote at Bloomberg today. Those fees can top $1,000 a year at some schools, and as Vedder writes, reliance on them ends up making college more expensive for students and often places the burden on the poorest students. And most of the time, students don’t even know they’re paying the fees.
Full story » (http://www.championshipsubdivisionnews.com/log/index.php/2013/06/18/why-students-and-taxpayers-are?blog=2#more8334)
More... (http://www.championshipsubdivisionnews.com/log/index.php/2013/06/18/why-students-and-taxpayers-are?blog=2)