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MATH
DUNK
Public Universities & Public Prisons
June 11, 1963 - Then Governor of Alabama, George Wallace “standing in the school house door” confronting then US Attorney General, Nicholas Katzenbach in attempt to deny admittance to African-Americans, Vivian Malone and James Hood.
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Given that African-American students generally have lower levels of achievement than their non-black counterparts and rightly or wrongly, a reputation for higher levels of interpersonal violence, what do they bring to an integrated educational setting…
2017 – Is the University of Alabama a football team with a university attached or is it a university with a football team?*
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An “eyeball measure” of the above picture yields 64 of the 99 members (red shirts only), of the 2016-2017 University of Alabama as probably being African-Americans.
Assuming that each of the 64 is on a “full-ride” ($42,000) this yields an annual cost to the institution of $2.7 million in foregone tuition fees and legal support payments.
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University of Alabama 2015-2016 fiscal year
Tuition & Fees – 692 million
Tuition & Fees net of scholarships – 476 million
Total Revenue – 818 million
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In 2015 the University of Alabama its 4th national college football title in 7 years, but he also helped subsidize the entire Crimson Tide athletics department by generated $95,132,301 in revenue, the most ever by any single team in the history of college sports. According to The Tuscaloosa News, Alabama's football program made a profit of nearly $46,491,330 during the Tide's 2015 championship season.
…money.
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​*Note: The University of Alabama’s total revenue stream is 7-8 times that of its football team. On that basis they are a university with a football team.
STEM Topic 28: Problem Set
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If California has a prison population of 120,000 and the cost to house each inmate is $60,000 per year, what is the total annual cost of running the California prison system?
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If the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), spends $500 per month on healthcare for each inmate, how much does it spend per year on healthcare for a prison population of 120,000?
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If the California prison population decreases by 10% and the cost to house each inmate remains the same, what is the new annual cost of running the prison system?
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If the CDCR reduces healthcare spending for each inmate by 20% and the prison population remains at 120,000, how much does it save per year on healthcare?
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If the California prison system spends 20% of its budget on food and the annual budget is $10 billion, how much does it spend on food each year?
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If the CDCR reduces food spending by 5% and the annual budget remains at $10 billion, how much does it save per year on food?
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If the cost to house each inmate increases by 10% and the prison population remains at 120,000, what is the new annual cost of running the prison system?
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If the California Department of Corrections (CDCR) reduces staff salaries by 15% and the total salary expenditure is $2 billion per year, how much does it save per year on staff salaries?
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If the California prison system spends 30% of its budget on staff salaries and the annual budget is $12 billion, how much does it spend on staff salaries each year?
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If the California prison system spends $100 million per year on educational programs for inmates and there are 120,000 inmates, how much does it spend per inmate per year on educational programs?
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