The High Costs of Division
I-A at SJSU
It would be an interesting exercise to compare general fund expenditures
for athletics on all 23 CSU campuses. Amazingly, however, according to Lori Erdman in the
Chancellor�s office, the CSU simply does not collect this data! This is an outrage, considering the CSU administration keeps
close tabs on most other parts of the university, and in fact justified the
CMS program partially in terms of better financial management.
However, the SJSU Academic Senate has conducted its own investigation and
has learned that SJSU's athletics program is very costly compared to the
athletics programs within the CSU. The complete table is below, but here
are some quick facts:
SJSU spends 3.3% of its general fund budget on athletics, which is a much
higher percentage than every other school within the CSU except Bakersfied.
If SJSU could reduce its athletics spending to the level of most non-Divison
I-A schools, it could save millions of dollars per year. For example, if
SJSU reduced its spending on athletics to the level of Long Beach (1.3% of the
general fund budget), SJSU would save $4 million per year that could be
immediately redirected back into our classrooms.
|
University (NCAA Division; # of teams)
|
General Fund
to Athletics
|
Total GF
Allocation
|
Percent of
GF to Athletics
|
FTES
Target
|
General Fund
to Athletics per FTES
|
|
Bakersfield (II, 17)
|
$2,134,000
|
$63,403,200
|
3.4%
|
6,257
|
$341
|
|
San Jose (IA, 16)
|
$6,751,374
|
$206,345,065
|
3.3%
|
21,628
|
$312
|
|
San Diego (IA, 17)
|
$6,340,000
|
$246,596,000
|
2.6%
|
27,201
|
$233
|
|
Humboldt (II, 12)
|
$1,993,398
|
$80,153,800
|
2.5%
|
7,450
|
$241
|
|
Fresno (IA, 17)
|
$2,899,023
|
$160,797,600
|
1.8%
|
16,689
|
$174
|
|
Dominguez Hills (II, 10)
|
$1,252,914
|
$84,104,000
|
1.5%
|
9,294
|
$135
|
|
Sacramento (IAA, 14)
|
$
2,869,961
|
$191,052,800
|
1.5%
|
21,950
|
$130
|
|
Stanislaus (II, 13)
|
$900,000
|
$63,762,400
|
1.4%
|
6,423
|
$140
|
|
Long Beach (IAAA, 14)
|
$3,292,628
|
$257,124,863
|
1.3%
|
26,598
|
$124
|
|
San Francisco1 (II, 16)
|
$1,400,000
|
$183,423,200
|
0.8%
|
21,836
|
$64
|
|
Pomona (II, 10)
|
$1,220,000
|
$160,024,200
|
0.8%
|
17,267
|
$71
|
|
L.A. (II,
11)
|
$1,400,000
|
$227,469,000
|
0.6%
|
16,653
|
$84
|
|
Sonoma (II, 13)
|
$265,000
|
$65,636,800
|
0.4%
|
6,715
|
$39
|
|
Hayward2
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
1.
The president of San Francisco State University has announced that, due
to the budget crisis, SFSU will be terminating all general fund support for
athletics beginning in 2004/05. (Source:
SFSU Athletics Director Michael Simpson)
2.
Hayward is the only Division III school in the CSU.
As such, the athletics department is not a stand-alone department but
part of a regular academic department. It does not receive a separate budget. However, the department�s total budget in 2002-03
was $1.5 million ($127 per FTES).
*all
data in this table pertain to 2002-03, with the exception of Long Beach &
Sacramento, which are data from 2003-04.
All data for San Jose, Fresno and Long Beach were taken from official
budget reports. Data from remaining
schools were reported by various administrators on the individual campuses.
Specifically: Cindy Goodmon,
Business Manager (Bakersfield); Theresa Cuarenta (Dominguez
Hills); Robert Scialdone, Assistant Athletics Director (Fullerton); Debby
DeAngelis, Athletics Director (Hayward); Laurie Shephard, Athletics Business
Manager (Humboldt); Lee DeLeon,
Assistant Director of Athletics (Los Angeles);
Roger Morehouse, Academic Senate Chair (Pomona);
Bill Macriss, Associate Athletics Director (Sacramento); Michael Simpson,
Athletics Director (San Francisco); Al
Zitlau, Associate Athletics Director (San Diego);
Bill Fusco, Director of Athletics (Sonoma); Dr. Milton Richards,
Athletics Director (Stanislaus). Monterey
Bay, San Marcos, Channel Islands & the Maritime Academy were not contacted.
The remaining schools have not responded. Data regarding total campus general fund budgets were taken
from Attachment A of CSU 2002/03 Budget. Data
regarding FTES taken from a table entitled �CY 2002-2003 FTES Targets &
Calculations� issued by CSU Academic Research.