They’re looking at cutting costs throughout the University, including shutting down programs. Our Athletic budget is at about 9 million, by comparison.
http://www.nj.com/sports/ledger/index.ssf?/base/sports-0/1152592251203250.xml&coll=1
does this have anything to do with the other financial troubles that the New Jersey gov’t is having?
$66 million in state funding cuts and a state authorized cap on tuition? I’d cut the athletics budget too.
I wonder how much they would charge for a women’s crew team?
from the article
Rutgers officials have been struggling for weeks to come up with a plan to absorb $99.8 million in state funding cuts proposed by Gov. Jon Corzine in March. About a third of the cuts were restored in last-minute negotiations during last week's budget showdown in Trenton.But Rutgers is still facing a reduction of more than $66 million in state aid, the largest cut in its history. Because the state budget includes a provision capping a tuition increase at 8 percent, the university must cover most of the shortfall through layoffs, canceled classes and program cuts
so, I’d say it sounds like it. You know its bad when they shut down the casino’s in Atlantic City over it(budget)…
can you imagine what would happen to unc charlotte if they had to but $66 million out the budget? that’s crazy.
Capping tuition increases is always popular until something like this happens. That’s why I’m not a big fan of the UNC school system’s current move towards capped tuition increases. We are in the same financial bracket as UNCG and ECU…
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Capping tuition increases is always popular until something like this happens. That's why I'm not a big fan of the UNC school system's current move towards capped tuition increases. We are in the same financial bracket as UNCG and ECU....
its one of those ideas that sounds good until you learn a little more about it.
Haven’t heard much on Rutger’s football financing problem recently? Guess winning keeps whinners quite?
Almost two decades later and nothing has changed: