Very little of the tuition money makes it back to departments to be used for instruction. Many of the lab classes that all of you have taken were furnished with equipment and supplies that were paid for "on the side" out of some professor's research grants.
In the support staff meeting, his reply to each of the following (plus others) was to go to the alumni to get money to fund the programs:
1. Increasing student enrollment (asking all of you to be recruiters, so that's pretty much free but you have to pay for your own travel and wining and...