The move ends state funding and allows the program to support itself with tuition and donations.
Colleges are big business, and tuition and donation dollars will stop flowing if a school gets a reputation for sexual assault, or if assault accusations against a star athlete threatens a winning season, as was the case with former Florida State University quarterback Jameis Winston, whose accuser is featured in The Hunting Ground.
Aside from endowment income, universities have only limited options for increasing revenue: donations, tuition and, for research universities, government grants.
If a parish can run its schools self-sufficiently, through tuition and other donations, it does not have to be included in one of the 10 new archdiocesan regional school districts.
Only around 15% of LSE's funding now comes from government; the rest has to be clawed in from wherever it can be found: tuition fees, corporate donations and evidently cheques from dictators.
Its schools are technically run not by the archdiocese, but by individual parishes, which are supposed to pay for teachers' salaries and other school expenses through tuition and private donations.
It is naïve to think that a Manhattan private school can thrive without bankers and lawyers, whose children are among our hard-working friends and whose tuition payments and donations subsidize financial aid.
This brings us to a troubling conclusion: To the extent that any family with the wherewithal is paying less than the full cost of the product it is buying through combined tuition payments and donations, that family is effectively being subsidized by other current and past donors.
University officials emphasized that the settlement money did not come from tuition, taxpayers or donations, but from various liability insurance policies, which the university believes will cover the settlements and defense of claims brought against Penn State and its officers, employees and trustees.
PHC receives all of its funding from tuition fees or donations.
At the moment, Hand in Hand survives primarily on private donations, tuition fees and some minor support from the Israeli government.
