The University of Louisiana at Monroe is hunting for a new president and has had a couple of community forums for the public to give their input in the process. At a recent one, a woman named Donna Cathey suggested that the next ULM president must make athletic spending a priority. "We (the university) spend a disproportionate amount of money on academics," she said in this story from the Monroe News-Star. I added the parenthetical phrase there so we could be sure that we all knew just who was being so prodigal with all these dollars in the classroom.
Ms. Cathey is an alum of ULM, so it seems this excessive instructional spending may be a recent development.
(H/T University Diaries)
ETA: I'll be fair to Ms. Cathey and acknowledge she may have been making a larger point that was obscured by selective quotation in the news story. But it's not a smart way to phrase things.
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