How Some Colleges are Cutting Costs

Below there's an interesting link that was a story in Time Magazine a few weeks back. It shows what some schools are doing to cut costs in this recession. Some of them are pretty interesting. Like Bryn Mawr College and Dickinson College having a swim meet where they each swam at their own pools and compared the times to, thus having a virtual swim meet. Other schools just cut back on gluttony, like Harvard stopped serving hot breakfasts in the dorms.

Colleges Find Creative Ways to Cut Back

Are any of the schools here yours? Is there another way your school is cutting back? Comment below to share!

Comments

[Jeremy]

At Virginia Tech we have also gotten rid of trays in our dining halls and this has cut down on food waste which has in turn cut down on costs. I think its working out pretty well, I think the athletic department has taken some cuts also. For instance in the band last year, we rode buses to our bowl game instead of flying. Its been a few little things that add up rather than large departmental cuts that seem to have been put in place here.

[Thomas Balkcom]

At Georgia State those unpaid days off really upset some of my professors

[Rogerwilliamite]

At Roger Williams University the following attempts at cost cutting have debuted on campus:

Pay per page for printing $0.10 for B&W $0.15 for Color.
Banning "to go" or "hot cups" in the dining hall (under the guise of "going green")
Constructed a water tower to service the campus' dorms instead of buying town water
Dump contents of recycling bins into the garbage dumpster with the rest of the trash
Printing less pages and issues of the school newspaper
Stopped running the decorative fountain
Aerating the ground early to avoid further mowing