How the University Should Work

For Northeastern, life after football is good. Very good.

There has been little or no blowback from alumni or students, as money once spent on football now serves other campus goals. In fact, the number of donors is up (from 19,559 to 21,797) as is the number of applicants (37,693 for 2,800 spots), and the stature of the university continues to rise.

This strategy is not necessarily applicable everywhere—it wouldn’t work at Duke, I suspect—but it would probably be a good idea for many of the universities that overspend on college athletics. Via Inside Higher Ed.