<p>“Any money offered in terms of wages or perks has to come from the public or student fees. And basically, that’s what the outcry is about.”</p>
<p>This just isn’t true at many of the best public universities where student fees and public funds account for less than 20% of the university’s annual budget (as is the case at the University of Washington). In fact, if one were to look at the so-called rankings of so-called “public” universities, one quickly finds that rankings are often inversely related to the percentage of the budget that comes from state governments.</p>