Perpetual Wave
 |  With an NCAA minimum 15 sports programs, Tulane operates a fiscally responsible athletics department with an emphasis on providing for the needs of its student-athletes. |
Determining and providing the proper level of support and financing to its Division I-A athletics program has been an ongoing dilemma at Tulane University.
In the spring of 2003, an Ad Hoc Committee of the Board of Tulane conducted an extensive review of the Green Wave's intercollegiate athletics program, specifically focusing on the fiscal viability of the department, and taking into account many factors, including the changing face of intercollegiate athletics across the country. This review resulted in a call for an increased level of sustainable financial support for the program. In addition to calling for more financial support from the community, the Tulane Board also adopted a plan to limit the amount of money the university will provide as a subsidy to athletics' annual budget. Starting in Fiscal Year 2007, Tulane will cap that operating subsidy at $2 million annually.
Tulane, with expenditures that annually rank among the lowest in Conference USA and in the nation, runs a fiscally responsible athletics department with an emphasis on providing for the needs of its student-athletes first. But like most Division I-A institutions, Tulane runs an annual deficit in athletics.
The challenge for Tulane Athletics is to continue to increase its revenues while also managing and monitoring expenditures and still remaining competitive within the league, region and nation. This challenge will be successfully met through the Perpetual Wave Campaign.
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