Playing more, getting less
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
By Chris Fitzsimon
North Carolina students will be turned away from North Carolina’s public universities in coming years. And North Carolina taxpayers will shell out millions of more dollars to subsidize out-of-state scholarship students, most of them athletes.
For these blessings, thank the N.C. General Assembly, which did the bidding of organized UNC alumni offering major “campaign contributions.”
Thank, too, the universities that choose to take advantage of the opportunity. UNCW already has.
The law allows North Carolina’s public universities to admit more out-of-state scholarship students – ignoring the 18 percent cap on out-of-state admissions – and to charge them – actually, the organizations that finance their scholarships – in-state tuition, which is much lower.
At UNC-Chapel Hill, which is blessed with the Morehead Scholarship program, the majority of the benefit will go to promising scholars, though at most other campuses, apparently, the majority will go to promising athletes.
In either case, the organizations that raise money for scholarships will be able to get more scholars or “student athletes” for their dollars.
The problem, of course, is that when athletic booster clubs and academic foundations pay less, somebody has to pay more.
That somebody will be the taxpayers of North Carolina and, most likely, students without the upper-body strength or intracranial strength to win scholarships.(more…)
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