re: So the u of Bama wants to become more yankee?

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hey slashed funding about 10 years ago, which is when UA embarked on this mission to attract OOS students. Also, the taxpayers of Alabama do funding UA's expansion if state funding stays level.

UA's student population has doubled in the past 10 years, and taxpayers have had very little to do with that.

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Nobody has said otherwise. The point I am making is the current funding by the taxpayer would have reduced the instate cost of tuition if the expansion of these campuses hadn't gotten out of hand. I do not think the increase salary of professors is proportionate to the increase in cost of instate tuition. The original buildings on AU and UA housed the student populations when they were in the low 20Ks. The people who suffered because of this growth are the children of the Alabama taxpayers, who saw tuition increase 10 fold while their incomes only increased slightly. The out of state parents are getting a bargain at the cost of the residence of Alabama.