TESU experiences an Operating Loss every year.

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I'm sure they are expensive to run for the same reason most universities are expensive. Lots of professors with a 9 hour per week course load working half the year earning $100,000 per annum. Offices full of administration staff administering each other. An academic sense of entitlement that tells them they are important people that shouldn't be expected to scrimp. I'm sure I missed a lot.

This is far from the truth. TESU has a lot of part-time mentors rather than full-time faculty. They're basically adjuncts. If you tried to live solely off an adjunct salary at one school, you would qualify for public assistance.

Even in tenure-track positions at traditional universities, most professors don't make anywhere near $100,000. Those salaries are only regularly seen in certain fields, such as law, computer science, and engineering. Only a couple of my professors in my PhD program earn 6 figures because one was the founder of a popular theory and the other writes the most popular ethics textbook in CJ. It took them decades to command those salaries. They're in their 60s and 70s.