The Campus Conservative

  Years ago, when I wanted to know how the university worked, I went looking through all of the budgets for the student fees UT-Tyler charges its students. I was curious of where the money was going and of whether it was going to where it was supposed to. I wondered if anybody else even looked at these things.  In my search, I discovered that the university funds a portion of its athletics program with money from another student fee, namely The Student Services Fee.   According to the university’s FY21 operating budget, UT-Tyler planned to spend $154,912 dollars of Student Services Fee money to fund “Athletics” ” as well as $69,575 for “Athletics Marketing”. Here is the layout of the Student Services Fee FY21 budget:   This surprised me because the athletics program already has a separate, mandatory fee called The Intercollegiate Athletics Fee. This fee charges students for athletics program expenses (at least, one would think so). So what is going on with the ...