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[QUOTE="DomeHolmes, post: 5445667, member: 10113"]
I think most big-time colleges are efficient in that they spend what they take in and not more.   Private schools like us have to do this.  But whether it’s the university in general or their athletic programs, Rutgers has always operated as a school that will “get bailed out” because they are the “state flagship” and NJ should be proud of them and support them, blah blah blah.

We (and others) IMO are not really “efficient” because we don’t have to be.  As with most top tier schools, you have salaries that are no where near in line with the private sector.   Department heads, who are often times just maintaining the status quo, are paid $750,000.   Professors who teach a few classes a day and have jobs guaranteed for life make $200,000.   Often equally talented professors are performing those duties at lesser schools for pennies on the dollar.

But mostly it is the “arms race”.   Colleges are always expanding and getting bigger and “better”.   Athletically, academically, the quality of life in dorms, food, etc, are constantly improved with facilities being built that are night and day different than Syracuse was when I was in school.

Meanwhile, most people on the Rutgers board think they are swimming in cash because of the big 10 money, ignoring the $80,000,000 deficits as if it’s Monopoly money.    I would vote for any candidate who is 100% sincere about stopping the gravy train to that dumpster fire.
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