<p><a href=“http://www.syr.edu/selfstudy/report1/budget.html[/url]”>http://www.syr.edu/selfstudy/report1/budget.html</a></p>
<p>Our public K-12 schools use tax dollars for long range planning-building and maintainance, raises and benefits ( even above budget), investments for future growth etc.
If all pots are equal- but then an additional pot gets added- then money has to be shifted around.
So I can see your point. If the university has revenue consisting of donations/tuition/grants & expenditures of scholarships/ raises & benefits and operating costs- when one expenditure increases, but they cant increase general revenue- even if technically they move money from a grant to support scholarships, if additional tuition is then needed to support operating costs which now have a shortfall- it has the same effect as increasing tuition to cover scholarships.</p>
<p>( which also is what I think state schools are talking about- increase overall tuition but “giving” more in aid to low income)</p>