FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Colorado State University’s on-campus football stadium opened 2½ years ago.
While the debate over the real and perceived impacts of the $220 million stadium have since quieted, unease over the university’s increased athletic spending is still roiling in the stadium's shadow.
Citing annual NCAA reports that show the university’s “subsidy” to athletics — funding from CSU's general fund and a mandatory student athletic fee — had increased to $25.4 million in 2018-19, CSU’s Faculty Council passed a resolution Nov. 5 urging the “administration to significantly reduce athletic program subsidies, and to use the savings to support the university’s primary academic mission.”
> The video above aired in July 2017 and is an inside look at the CSU stadium shortly before the first game was played there.
The resolution, faculty council's first in 11 years and one of only a handful in the past 35 years to be approved and forwarded to the administration, passed by a 46-24 vote with one of the council's voting members abstaining. The 128-member Faculty Council has 103 eligible voters representing the university's thousands of academic faculty.
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