(04-18-2014 07:52 AM)EKUSteve Wrote:  Just saw the slides from the President's Forum on tuition at EKU yesterday. Proposed a $50 a semester athletics fee for all students attending the main campus in Richmond and taking more than 5 hours. This would be a new fee at EKU.

How many students does EKU have on the main campus? I don't think $50 will come close to being enough and at some point he will have to take some heat because fees are the only sure money that can be counted on (other than season tickets) to grow. The last time I checked I thought EKU had a total of 16,000? even at that number * $100 year = 1.6 million and I don't see how that would even cover the added salary for your coaches. I'm sure it will for football but if you are successful at other sports..it goes up across the board. Football alone the top of the SBC is spending 1.2 million and up on football staff.

I forgot what Westerns started out but I know it's not close to that number today. I want to say $200 a semester but honestly after my son's 2nd year (Sr with 1 semester left) I stopped paying attention and just look at the total and write a check. But I guess it's best to get something low that won't raise a lot of objections then come back year 2 and say.....


we need more! at that point there's not a lot of choice but to let a fee increase pass.