Student Fees and College Athletics

[swimmer]

This was in the USA Today:

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/ ... orts_N.htm

There have been other articles on this issues. In this one, the author states:

Officials at four of those 15 schools — Radford, James Madison, Longwood and Norfolk State, all of which are in Virginia — said the information could be found in an appendix of a state report.

At Virginia Military Institute, the athletics fee figure is "buried in our budget," says Col. Stewart MacInnis, a spokesman. "I had to go dig it out myself. It's not where anybody would go look for it. You've identified a weak spot."

Some schools don't reveal how much students pay toward athletics, to try to avoid controversy.

In one article, it stated that Virginia and Tennessee has to indicate how much in student fees went to athletics, yet this article seems to indicate it can be murky or unclear in how much is used to support the school's athletics. One question, how much does a full time student at VCU contribute to our athletics via student fees?

 

[Pavarotti]

The only publicized information on fees for athletics at VCU is that it is part of the "University Fee."

University Fee is charged to all full-time and part-
time students. Full-time students pay a flat rate of
$793.50 per semester. Part-time students pay $67
per credit hour. This fee is used by the university to
support recreational sports facilities, the University
Student Commons, campus development,
intercollegiate athletics and other programs.

 

[Natty]

Those student fees are CRUCIAL for non-BCS schools (who don't get the booster support OR the big TV money that schools from the SEC, PAC10, etc share). The vast majority of VCU's athletic budget comes from student fees.