When Matthew McConaughey takes the stage Friday to address this year’s University of Houston grads in their gleaming new sports stadium, you can bet he’ll give them great advice. You can hope he’ll give them a discount on his speaker’s fee:
He’s wealthy and wildly successful. He grew up in Texas. And his father was on the school’s football team.
The school says no taxpayer or tuition funds are being used to secure the services of the actor who took home an Oscar for “Dallas Buyers Club.” Yet the actor billed the school $135,000 – on top of $9,500 for a private jet.
At first, a university spokesperson told Watchdog.org that the cash to pay McConaughey came from the school’s continuing education program. She later said continuing education is “is simply a ledger line item. Money is not being pulled from resources designated for educational purposes....”
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