More than $800 million in student fees and university subsidies are propping up athletic programs at the nationâ??s top sports colleges, including hundreds of millions in the richest conferences, a USA TODAY analysis found. The subsidies have reached that level amid a continuing crisis in higher education funding. At some of the schools where athletics is most heavily subsidized, faculty salaries have dipped, state-funded financial aid is drying up and students are bracing for tuition and fee increases.
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