RayWill
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Cut 2 million form athletics for next season and considering either cutting football or at least dropping to division two. From folks I know it is gaining traction. There is a lot of question of even if they can, if there will be a football program this fall. For certain I heard that the trustee plan will be to recommend at least drop a division in all sports with the university leaning heavily towards ending football entirely. they hired a consultant to help then analyze it all. This article linked talks about it towards the end :
https://www.inlander.com/spokane/dr...ial-equity-and-academics/Content?oid=19749435
What's a university? At the core — at the heart — of a university are students. And specifically, students' relationship with faculty, with learning, with becoming wiser, more knowledgeable, more ethically sophisticated than they were," Smith says in a written statement.
That means the core responsibility should be instruction and degree programs, she says.
"We can be a university without housing as we know it, even without dining," she says. "We can be a university without a football team, even without any collegiate athletics. We know this because other universities with superb undergraduate and graduate education do so."
Cullinan says that, truly, everything is now on the cutting table. That includes athletics. The university already decided not to give the athletics budget $2 million that was previously going toward it, and an independent consultant should provide more input before the fall.
"Where could costs be cut, but also what changes could be made that could help us be more fiscally responsible in those areas?" Cullinan says. "That's a big section of the university that is separate from academics, although our student athletes are wonderful students."
Smith says she's encouraged that EWU is listening to faculty on the athletics spending, even if it took a pandemic for EWU to do so. But she says the situation for EWU remains dire.
"We're not deciding what to give a haircut to," Smith says. "We're deciding what arm we can live without."
"We will emerge from this probably a smaller institution," Cullinan says. "But my vision is that we will be even more focused on what students need, and be an even stronger resource for the whole community."
https://www.inlander.com/spokane/dr...ial-equity-and-academics/Content?oid=19749435
What's a university? At the core — at the heart — of a university are students. And specifically, students' relationship with faculty, with learning, with becoming wiser, more knowledgeable, more ethically sophisticated than they were," Smith says in a written statement.
That means the core responsibility should be instruction and degree programs, she says.
"We can be a university without housing as we know it, even without dining," she says. "We can be a university without a football team, even without any collegiate athletics. We know this because other universities with superb undergraduate and graduate education do so."
Cullinan says that, truly, everything is now on the cutting table. That includes athletics. The university already decided not to give the athletics budget $2 million that was previously going toward it, and an independent consultant should provide more input before the fall.
"Where could costs be cut, but also what changes could be made that could help us be more fiscally responsible in those areas?" Cullinan says. "That's a big section of the university that is separate from academics, although our student athletes are wonderful students."
Smith says she's encouraged that EWU is listening to faculty on the athletics spending, even if it took a pandemic for EWU to do so. But she says the situation for EWU remains dire.
"We're not deciding what to give a haircut to," Smith says. "We're deciding what arm we can live without."
"We will emerge from this probably a smaller institution," Cullinan says. "But my vision is that we will be even more focused on what students need, and be an even stronger resource for the whole community."
