TJ Walker says universities pay basketball and football coaches more than professors, revealing backwards priorities that fuel student debt and voter anger at higher education.
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Universities are raising tuition. Students are taking on debt. Families are stretching to afford education. At the same time, we're telling the world that the most valuable employee on campus is the basketball coach or a football coach, not the professor, not the researcher, not the person educating the next generation, but the coach. That's not just a budget issue, that's a values issue. And values eventually show up in politics because voters may not follow every detail of higher education finance, but they understand unfairness. They understand when something feels out of balance. Ultimize.