KU faculty leader proposes reduction to athletics department budget to lessen need for academic budget cuts - Kathy Hanks, LJ World

A plan to reduce a proposed $20 million budget cut at the University of Kansas would involve Kansas Athletics losing its $1.5 million a year subsidy it receives from the university. Also proposed: A multimillion dollar increase in funding from the Kansas University Endowment Association, the sale of a KU jet that critics contend costs the university millions of dollars in unneeded expenses, and the creation of a $1.5 million a year contribution from KU Athletics to the university’s general operating budget. Kirk McClure, president of the University of Kansas Faculty Senate, emailed a letter Tuesday afternoon to all faculty members with his suggestions for reducing KU’s $20 million budget cut by half. “Within minutes, I received 56 replies. Everyone of them in support. There was no opposition,” McClure said. http://www2.ljworld.com/news/ku/2018/aug/22/ku-faculty-leader-proposes-reduction-to-athletics-department-budget-to-lessen-need-for-academic-budget-cuts/