Trouble on the Red Turf

[reformedUNDfan]

Read the article. This was a faculty department’s opinion. Probably your typical tenured professor who has never been to sporting event that hates athletics who wants budget cuts to athletics but sees nothing wrong with their 150,000/year salary.

academics at EWU are probably closer to 50,000 than 150,000. Probably under

[reformedUNDfan]

overpriced increasingly irrelevant university professors

how is anyone support to take this post seriously?

[southcliffbison]

EWU (and nearly every other school of "higher learning") should eliminate every field of study that has "studies" in it. Eliminate every admin position of diversity and inclusion. That is just a start.

Are you telling me my degree in Medieval Russian Art Studies is worthless? Seven years of college......shot !!

[CAS4127]

EWU (and nearly every other school of "higher learning") should eliminate every field of study that has "studies" in it. Eliminate every admin position of diversity and inclusion. That is just a start.

Perfectly stated.


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[CAS4127]

how is anyone support to take this post seriously?

I do.


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[GreenfieldBison]

Are you telling me my degree in Medieval Russian Art Studies is worthless? Seven years of college......shot !!

You finished that in only seven years???!!!!

[southcliffbison]

You finished that in only seven years???!!!!

I was on a fast-track.

[El_Chapo]

Bill Chaves likes a good poll "his twitter last year when they were ranked"

is this the wake left behind his boat when he left ewu?

[Vet70]

My second good laugh of the day:

Eastern Washington reached the FCS National Championship in 2018 and won the darn thing in 2010, making EWU the third-most recent program to win a title at that level.

https://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...tes-after-all/

[BlueKeyAlum]

Bill Chaves likes a good poll "his twitter last year when they were ranked"

is this the wake left behind his boat when he left ewu?

It has little to do with Chavez as it's been a topic for conversation for the last 20 years. It started in 1997 when a legislative bill was introduced to close EWU as a plan to help curtail higher education costs. It failed but the Higher Edd board cleaned house and a new president was brought into EWU and his new direction, along with a cyclical high number of students graduating from high schools helped the school thrive. The new admin did cut or combine programs in an attempt to curtail budget. But over the last 10 years the traditional aged population of students has declined. Additionally, EWU has always had a large number of commuter/weekend students who attended classes in Spokane. Now they are online students getting degrees from other schools. And the legislature is back in a quagmire regarding funding for Higher Education.

Chavez balanced a precarious budget and I thought got the most out of it. EWU maintains the minimum amount of teams necessary for participation in the Sky. Cutting any teams will likely force EWU out of the Sky and then what do you have.

The football success is a key point of student identity at EWU. With students roughly split between classes in Spokane and in Cheney or both, students sometimes don't relate to the physical university. But football has been something EWU students can rally around.