On mobile , so I can ' t link you , but here ' s a high quality source Robert Carini , Brian Powell , and Lala Carr Steelman 2000 Do Teacher Unions Hinder Educational Performance ? Lessons Learned from State SAT and ACT Scores . Harvard Educational Review December 2000 , Vol . 70 , No . 4 , pp . 437467 . The major finding is that unions have a positive correlation with student SAT and ACT scores , controlling for other , relevant variables . <| sep |> no that ' s not the case man <| sep |> the major sports american football and men ' s basketball make money for a lot of schools . but because of title IX the number of scholarships has to be proportional to the gender mix of your school , the university has to field a lot of nonrevenue sports volleyball , tennis , etc . . at that point , the athletic dept may or may not make money .