Funding & Student Fees

[CajunEXPRESS]

They aren't attending the games in large numbers.

Perhaps UL should phase out sports and devote the savings for academics. Maybe they won’t lose alumni, and student’s because not many students attend sports anyway. But they will lose me and anything I plan on leaving because after all my diploma was strictly a business decision.

[fanof71]

College Athletics is a part of a well rounded and memerable college experience...it has its value. Don't believe me? My wife graduated from UNC Greensboro in the mid 70's...she hated it and feels her 4 years of college was largely a wasted 4 years. She feels her degree is worthless...

[R1Letterman]

Vermilion
-The Vermilion fee was established in 2004 to provide funding for the student published newspaper. The cost is $2 per semester.... wow I thought it was free. And the year book is 12, why do we assume students won't vote for an athletic fee if they vote for that? $80000 seems like a lot for a free paper

[R1Letterman]

Club Sports – Other
-The Club Sports-Other was established in 2002 to provide funding for UL Lafayette Club Sports such as Judo, Bowling, Soccer, Rugby, Tae Kwan Do, Skeet Shooting, and Water Skiing. The fee is $3.15 per

[R1Letterman]

https://bursar.louisiana.edu/node/80

[R1Letterman]

$196 for student union

[RedTails]

Yea, I would not support a large athletic fee imposed on students unless other student fees were eliminated or consolidated.

A bar in CWS already generated $104,395 in revenue by selling jello shots as of 4 hours ago. As RR said on Twitter, we need to grow our RCAF donor base and get creative in doing it.

[CajunVic]

I believe that was said long before RR said it . . . Considering the number of RCAF members, the main action growing RCAF is tying it to season ticket sales . . . which means it is a definitive limited dollar growth function . . .

always trust jello shots as a creative revenue generator

[Cajunrunner]

3) Someone brought up the 'workforce development' argument, that we should get rid of degrees and courses that don't directly train workers for the workforce.

..a) Which workforce? The data is clear that in the future workers will change, not just jobs, but careers, repeatedly, and at an accelerated pace. The point is, we need to stop thinking in terms of the 'applied' disciplines, because they don't train us to re-train. We don't even want to talk exclusively about the sciences, because the sciences teach us to work within a paradigm. Only the liberal arts train us to be perspectivalist in our thinking. (For those of you interested in Kuhn v Popper, Popper sounds better, but the evidence-- the *ahem* data-- shows Kuhn was right.)

..b) Dictators want workforce development, because broad mental training (again, perspectivalism) produces people who question the tyrant. In a democracy, we need more, we need citizen-force development, to produce people who can use the different approaches of different disciplines to analyze the world around us. Again, the sciences don't do that.
....i) Trust me, I'm a doctor.
....ii) Back off, man, I'm a scientist.

Well, hell, by all means, UL should just disband its Engineering and Nursing programs and encourage more liberal arts majors. Who needs a workforce? Only dictators, that's who.

[SMD7636]

We don’t need to debate a student fee as most of us are not students. It’s time to let the students vote!