UT Athletics Suspends Support of Campus Academics

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Perhaps the clearest anecdotal evidence of the impact escalating coaching salaries is having on higher education at large comes to us from the University of Tennessee, which announced Tuesday that its athletic department will not subsidize academic initiatives on the Knoxville campus for at least the next three years. The reason? The athletic department needs to stabilize its own budget in the midst of a football coaching change.

UT Athletics had contributed nearly $6 million annually to academic scholarships, fellowships and programs - making it a leader in such giving among Division I athletic departments. In a written statement, UT chancellor Jimmy Cheek said that money "was committed under different circumstances."

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