DRad to Miami?

LagrangeJacket said:
Universities are “non-profits”, and many have affiliated health care systems. Since they’re “non-profits”, the non-profit profits from the health system have to be spent somewhere to balance the books. The targets are usually hiring more administrators, increasing administrator salaries, building new buildings, and hiring more administrators. If they have some left over, they’ll usually hire some more administrators. Then, I guess, they give some to sports?
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I think people are being pretty un-conservative in criticizing Miami here – if anything Miami gets a tip of the cap for running their medical system so well.

The primary difference between a non-profit and a for-profit institution, is that for-profit institutions can distribute the excess of revenue over expense to shareholders. Since non-profit institutions raise 'capital' through donations rather than investments, they don't have shareholders to distribute profit to. They are just supposed to use their profit to further their mission, whatever that may be. If UM Health is part of the broader university, and if the university sees intercollegiate athletics as part of its mission, there's really nothing weird or sketchy about UM Health 'profits' going into athletics.

Personally I'd love to see GT develop a more inclusive vision of how to integrate athletics into the university's broader mission. As many have said, athletics is the university's front porch and the way an awful lot of students get to know a school. Makes perfect sense to advance the overall university mission by being excellent at this activity that will generate huge amounts of public exposure and interest.
 
If you haven’t seen it, the University of Miami Hospital System/Jackson is huge. It takes up a considerable chunk of downtown Miami (not the beach part but actual downtown). It is always jam packed busy too.
 
18in32 said:
Personally I'd love to see GT develop a more inclusive vision of how to integrate athletics into the university's broader mission. As many have said, athletics is the university's front porch and the way an awful lot of students get to know a school. Makes perfect sense to advance the overall university mission by being excellent at this activity that will generate huge amounts of public exposure and interest.
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Yep. Unfortunately, it seems that many of the powers that be care not for athletics and/or aren’t really concerned about having strong athletics programs. The lip service is there (?) but the commitment ($$$) is not.
 
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