Resolution on Athletics Funding

Be it resolved that the New Brunswick Faculty Council

• asks the University administration to report annually to the faculty on its three-year plan for the athletic budget.  The first such report, to be presented no later than June 15, 2012, would review the fiscal years 2011, 2012 and 2013, and would discuss, in particular, the projected University subsidy and student fee allocation for athletics in these years.

• calls on the University administration and the Board of Governors to freeze the dollar amount of the University subsidy for fiscal 2013 at the level planned for fiscal 2012, and to reduce the subsidy amount in every subsequent fiscal year until, as of fiscal 2016, the subsidy is no more than $13 million (approximately $1 million below the average level of the subsidy during fiscal years 2005-2007). 

• asks that the question of compulsory student fee allocations for the athletic program be put to a student referendum no later than September 30, 2012.