I see this as a couple moves down the game tree. Stand up to Trump. If he pulls federal grants or tax exempt status, then universities have to cut all activities that aren’t essential to their basic mission of research and teaching. That would include football and basketball.
Our universities in Iowa are doing this, but we will get blamed for this, rather than the state legislature (which has consistently underfunded us) and the federal government, which is killing millions of dollars in grant funding.
For sure. Though in my mind the persistent tuition hikes have been more of a slow boil and people just directly blame the institutions they see charging them more. This would be more of a sudden shock and the “what’s changed?” question would have a (hopefully? 🤷🏻♂️) obvious answer.
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