Here's how much Rutgers paid for Obama's commencement visit

[Tango Two]

A visit from the President of the United States doesn't come cheap.

Rutgers University spent nearly $1.43 million on its commencement ceremony headlined by President Barack Obama last spring, according to a final accounting by the state university.

That is 58 percent -- or nearly $523,000 -- more than Rutgers spent on its 2015 commencement when Bill Nye "The Science Guy" was the featured speaker.



http://www.nj.com/education/2017/02/heres_how_much_rutgers_paid_for_obamas_commencemen.html

 

[retired711]

So it was an extra half-million -- the publicity and morale boost that Rutgers got out of having the President way outweighs that.

 

[RU-ROCS]

Worth every penny IMHO!

 

[Jim_from_RU]

Money well spent!

 

[RUsojo]

If you read the comment section it's easy to see why the battle to improve perception (tangible improvement is already so obvious) will be hard to win. The number of Lehigh, FIT, NJIT, Fordham, (the list goes on), and non-college graduates bemoaning the event and supporting their gripes with falsehoods could be considered unbelievable if we weren't so exposed to the nj atititude already.

A sitting president! What goes through these people's heads?

 

[bigmatt718]

If you read the comment section it's easy to see why the battle to improve perception (tangible improvement is already so obvious) will be hard to win. The number of Lehigh, FIT, NJIT, Fordham, (the list goes on), and non-college graduates bemoaning the event and supporting their gripes with falsehoods could be considered unbelievable if we weren't so exposed to the nj atititude already.

A sitting president! What goes through these people's heads?

I said it before, I'll say it again. For a state that claims to be one of the most educated in the country, we have an unbelievably high number of shitheads that reside in NJ.

 

[retired711]

There is no rule that says an educated person cannot be a sh!thead. Unfortunately, the two categories frequently overlap.

 

[NotInRHouse]

I will take our shitheads, just imagine if the University of Alabama had him speak.

 

[PhilaPhans]

And I would do it again in a heartbeat.

 

[Saint Puppy]

Lot of cashola but it was awesome and well worth it!