Kennesaw State University: $42 million student fees for sports

In the past five years, public universities pumped more than $10.3 billion in mandatory student fees and other subsidies into their sports programs, according to an examination by The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Huffington Post.

That includes Georgia State University, which has pumped $90 million in student fees into sports and Kennesaw State, which has put about $42 million of students fees into its sports programs in the last five years.

You can read the report here and track the money spent at KSU and other Georgia universities.

You can also read more about it on Maureen Downey's blog on myajc.com.

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