Reporter Zach Demars, here. The story mostly goes along with VPFA Jamie Moffitt’s view of the causes of the budget crisis and like our easily manipulated Board of Trustees, avoids discussing solutions such as cutting athletic subsidies, central administrative costs, or consulting projects such as the new faculty tracking software. Eliminating baseball and the athletic subsidies alone would save about $7M – almost the entire revenue gain from the likely 8% tuition increase.
Don’t forget the all the new advisors and other costs for the new Tykeson Center. From what I hear — somebody please tell me I have the numbers wrong — about the difference between an 8% tuition hike and 4%.
Update 5/28: Baseball coach parting ways. https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/2019/05/oregon-baseball-coach-george-horton-parting-ways.html