Potential Revenue

• Establish additional “exclusive” contracts with outside vendors and share in revenues
• Establish food franchises (e.g., Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Starbucks, etc.)
• Become a franchise training ground for franchise managers and employees
• Contract with industry to provide faculty as consultants
• Offer community library card for a fee
• Offer student meal program with monthly pass
• Produce touring children’s theater for fees for grades K-6
• Receive royalties from internally developed telecourses used by other stations and colleges
• Set up video game centers at the student union and other campus locations
• Sponsor bank credit cards for students, employees, and alumni in return for receiving a percentage of charges
• Build a gas station on campus for student and public use
• Establish a line of college merchandise and appropriate distribution channels or store
• Form a “for profit” corporation as a corporate umbrella for bookstore and cafeteria services
• Install more vending machines
• Open auto-repair garage where people pay for students’ repair services and use for vocational training
• Provide fee-based exhibitions for student art
• Put more shops on campus, including clothing shops and other currently popular chains
• Sell lottery tickets on campus
• Set up coffee and tea kiosks around campus
  

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