Better check your facts. Yale pays almost no property taxes to New Haven. Yale paid only $4.9 million in taxes in 2018, but New Haven claims the University should be paying twenty-six times that amount. Yale has far far fewer CT residents attending than UConn. Yale is also reluctant to focus on commercially valuable research. The financial future of Connecticut rests with UConn given its new STEM and entrepreneurial focus.
Also, as of 2019 tuition and fees fund approximately 41 percent of UConn's annual operating budget. UConn's state support funds 26 percent, with the rest of the budget coming from auxiliary revenue, research grants and philanthropy.
Which facts do I need to check? UConn, as you stated yourself, is funded through tax payer dollars.
Like major corporations, colleges have been given tax breaks since the beginning of time. That’s a systemic issue, not a Yale/Connecticut one.
Yale’s failure to focus on commercially valuable research is an arbitrary argument at best.
Yale is a self-funded, private institution - which affords the place the right to admit 0 CT students if it wants.
On the contrary, it’s the largest employer in New Haven, offering trickle down taxes in income, retail, and residential property tax revenue. Could /should Yale do more to help the impoverished, surrounding neighborhoods? Yes, I think they should. But again, that’s a completely different topic that has nothing to do with balancing football schedules.
Would love to hear your alternative. I know you have businesses and schools just banging on the door begging to take over property in the middle of bustling downtown New Haven. But big bad Yale is hardly dragging the city and state down. Look in the mirror of UConn athletics... horrible coaching contracts (Diaco, Ollie), an empty Rent paid for by tax payers for UConn, and the disaster that is the XL Center.