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By Allie Williams

I have found food to be the solution to most problems in life. Hungry? Eat. Tired? Eat. Upset? Eat. Need to celebrate? Eat. Now, food also seems to be the answer to recent budget cuts in public financing for universities. Bookstores on campus are now selling... Wagyu beef.

Earlier this month, Kirk Johnson of the New York Times published an article about Washington State University's Premium Beef, available for purchase for $9.50 a pound. While the market for sweatshirts and mugs can become saturated and overdone, the need for beef is constant, especially in our burger and fries nation.  In a time when foodies abound and money is tight for institutes of higher education, university food production might be the answer for many more schools.  Joining Cornell Dairy Ice Cream, Texas A & M Jerky, and University of Idaho Vandal Brand Meats, W.S.U. Wagyu beef could be the beginning of a trend in higher education.

Concluding the article with indisputable numbers, "university officials said that with nearly 25,000 students on four campuses and beyond that tens of thousands of alumni and extended family members, there is no shortage of potential customers." Will university produced food really become the next foam finger?

Email addresses of students and alumni provide an accessible and cost efficient platform for advertising. Local, university owned resources do not cost extra or demand more employees. With that being said, are there any shortcomings to this food solution to an economic problem? The recent rise in food yuppies and locavores supports the initiative. Alumnae and students support the initiative. But will it really catch on? The real question is, does it need to?

University food production need not become the next college t-shirt. Not every college or university has the resources to produce local foodstuffs. Honeycrisp apples, grown upstate, could be transported to the big apple itself to alumnae and students at New York University, but the transportation cost and partnership with local farmers might be more hassle than final payoff. University food branding isn't for everyone.

So let it be. Let the foodies of W.S.U have their Wagyu beef. Let the Cornell graduates have their alma mater produced ice cream. Whether or not the trend makes it big, the overall theme of food as a solution to economic problems remains. If food is the solution here, what else could it be the answer to?

 

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The public university announced last week that it had struck a deal to name its football stadium after GEO Group, Inc., one of the largest operators of for-profit prisons in the U.S. and a major donor to the Florida Republican Party. In exchange, FAU will receive $6 million from the company over 12 years.

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GEO Group CEO George Zoley is an alumnus of FAU and is the former chair of FAU's board of trustees.

"The GEO Group Foundation contributes more than $1 million annually to scholarships, local charities, public schools and other worthy causes, illustrating the company's commitment to education and rehabilitation," FAU spokeswoman Jennifer O'Flannery Anderson said in a statement to WPBF.

An online petition urging FAU to scrap the deal has already garnered nearly 10,000 signatures.

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BALTIMORE -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has pledged $350 million to Johns Hopkins University, mainly to expand its interdisciplinary research on an array of issues including global health and urban revitalization as his lifetime giving to his alma mater eclipses $1 billion.

The university announced the commitment late Saturday saying it believe Bloomberg, who amassed his fortune creating the global financial services firm Bloomberg LP, is now the first person to give more than $1 billion to a single American university.

The $350 million commitment is the largest ever to the Baltimore-based university, Johns Hopkins said in a statement.

Most of the latest gift, $250 million, will be part of a larger effort to raise $1 billion to foster cross-disciplinary work at Johns Hopkins, the statement said. Funds initially will be used toward appointment of faculty for interdisciplinary work on an array of issues that also will include individualized health care delivery, sustainability of water resources and the science of learning.

The remaining $100 million is to be devoted to need-based financial aid for undergraduate students, awarding 2,600 Bloomberg scholarships in the next 10 years, it said.

It added that the latest gift brings Bloomberg's giving to the institution just more than $1.11 billion in the 49 years since he graduated – including his first gift of $5 in 1965 only a year after he received his bachelor's degree in engineering from Johns Hopkins.

"Johns Hopkins University has been an important part of my life since I first set foot on campus more than five decades ago," Bloomberg said in the statement issued by the university. "Each dollar I have given has been well-spent improving the institution and, just as importantly, making its education available to students who might otherwise not be able to afford it."

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Tulane informed U.S. News in December that officials had discovered its A.B. Freeman School of Business misreported "average GMAT scores for full-time MBA students entering in fall 2011 and the total number of applicants." Tulane said the school had misreported a batch of data from the fall of 2010 and possibly in earlier years as well.

Tulane's MBA program was ranked 43rd in U.S. News' 2013 college rankings.

"We deeply regret that this occurred," Ira Solomon, dean of the A.B. Freeman School of Business, said in a statement. "The checks and balances we have implemented will provide assurance that this will not happen again."

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