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Alum07's picture Alum07
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| 9 months 2 weeks # | VT BoV Approves increase of athletics budget by $47.1m this year, growing to a total budget of $212m in 2029

Yeah I thought your remarks were excellent. Brought up your concerns but still stated that it's effectively a fools errand right now to think the VT Experience isn't fundamentally intertwined with VT athletics and especially the football team now.

And then called them out publicly for not showing this same urgency to retain professors and faculty. Which, without saying it, will lead everyone to question why we keep paying for all these fancy new buildings.

Hopefully those remarks eventually kick off a whole other discussion that helps in that area. Personally, as high as VTs tuition is, it's ridiculous to hear that we struggle to pay our professors a competitive salary.

Hokie2013's picture Hokie2013
| 9 months 2 weeks # | VT BoV Approves increase of athletics budget by $47.1m this year, growing to a total budget of $212m in 2029

When I was in school I made it to the final round of the process to be the student rep on BOV (final 3 and all of us interviewed with the BOV). Even back then the sentiment from students was that we were spending tons of money on things that increase the cost of attendance for every-day students but do not increase the value of the education. This was at the beginning of spending hundreds of millions on buildings and dorms. There is a balance to modernizing the campus but not spending extra cash on the luxury dorms and buildings. The in state cost of attendance was 17k when I started in 2009 (and that included an unrealistic nearly 2k on "travel"). Now the in state cost is nearly 40k. The university has certainly found a way of spending a shitton of money and pricing the average student into substantial debt. The investment into sports is probably necessary for the longevity of the region, but I certainly hope the university finds a way to be more responsible with the money coming in from the students.

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