I have seen this waste first hand. To add you your “spend money like a drunken sailor”, it’s true. They renovate and re-renovate buildings, pave and re-pave roads and redesign them, construct new buildings with lavish materials etc.

They recently had completely renovated a space in the central warehouse building for the parking services department. Less then a year later, they tore it all out and renovated again for the planning department. It looks like it’s out of a danish furniture style magazine. This is repeated around the university and most of it is in non-student spaces.

UConn spends money like it’s Yale or Harvard, and has a multi-billion dollar endowment to tap.