Special Section: Board of Governors Tuition Increase Roundup
Board approves differing tuition increases for Fla. universities
Florida Today
A splintered Florida Board of Governors approved a variety of tuition increases for 11 of the state’s 12 public universities following a chaotic meeting that featured changing votes and shifting coalitions.
Tuition hike at Florida’s universities
Florida Times-Union
Ignoring the will of Gov. Rick Scott, the Board of Governors for the state’s university system approved 15 percent tuition increases for four of the 11 universities Thursday. The University of North Florida was not one of them.
Tuition will jump next semester at Florida universities
MiamiHerald.com
Florida’s trend of annual double-digit tuition increases will continue at most state schools this fall semester, after the state’s Board of Governors — following vigorous debate — approved substantial tuition hikes at 11 public universities.
State approves 12 percent FGCU tuition increase, down from 14 …
Naples Daily News
Two days after trustees at Florida Gulf Coast University haggled over whether to increase tuition by 15 percent — ultimately deciding on a 14 percent hike — the state dropped that number again, to 12 percent…
11 percent USF tuition hike approved
Northwest News and Tribune
The state university Board of Governors on Thursday approved the University of South Florida’s plan to increase tuition by 11 percent, but board members went through contortions to get there.
All Florida university tuition increases approved by state committee
Orlando Sentinel
The Board of Governors overseeing Florida’s public universities approved a 15 percent tuition increase Thursday for the University of Central Florida and three other state universities – but not without a lot of intense debate about the rapidly rising cost of higher education and the pressure it’s putting on students.
UCF’s 15% tuition hike approved amid intense debate over college costs
Orlando Sentinel
The Board of Governors overseeing Florida’s public universities approved a 15 percent tuition increase Thursday for the University of Central Florida and three other state universities – but not without a lot of intense debate about the rapidly rising cost of higher education and the pressure it’s putting on students…
Governor not happy with Florida tuition hikes, including 15% for FAU
Palm Beach Post
In a chaotic session of horse-trading, leaders of the state university system Thursday approved double-digit tuition hikes for all but one of Florida’s 11 schools, defying Gov. Rick Scott who wanted to hold the line on student costs.
15 percent tuition hikes approved at FAU, FIU
Sun-Sentinel
In a chaotic session of horse-trading, leaders of the state university system Thursday approved double-digit tuition hikes for all but one of Florida’s 11 schools, defying Gov. Rick Scott who wanted to hold the line on student costs. Florida Atlantic University was granted the 15 percent boost it sought, after earlier warning that without it, more than 75 faculty positions and dozens of classes would be cut…
UF Tuition Up 9 Percent, USF Going Up 11 Percent
Sunshine State News
After rejecting tuition hikes of 15 percent, 9 percent, 13.5 percent and 12 percent for the University of Central Florida, the State University System Board of Governors took a five-minute break on Thursday before agreeing to give the University of Florida its 9 percent requested tuition increase and the University of South Florida an 11 percent increase to tuition.
State universities’ Board of Governors approve lesser increases …
Tallahassee.com
Florida State University plans to appeal the Board of Governors’ decision Thursday to allow FSU a 13-percent differential tuition increase, and not the 15 percent the university had requested…
Without Scott’s blessing, new tuition increases are all over the map
Tampabay.com
All but UF, USF and Florida Gulf Coast University had asked for that maximum amount again this year. The universities have until July 2 to appeal. They had …
11 percent USF tuition hike approved
Tbo.com
The state university Board of Governors on Thursday approved the University of South Florida’s plan to increase tuition by 11 percent, but board members went through contortions to get there.
Board OKs tuition increases for Fla. universities
WEAR
The Board of Governors has approved tuition increases of 9 percent to 15 percent for Florida’s public universities…
Board OKs tuition increases for Fla. universities
WESH Orlando
The Board of Governors has approved tuition increases of 9 percent to 15 percent for Florida’s public universities…
Board OKs tuition increases for Fla. universities
WPEC
The Board of Governors has approved tuition increases of 9 percent to 15 percent for Florida’s public universities.
State University System
Rising seas will inundate Miami-Dade, Broward before Palm Beach …
Palm Beach Post
If you’re worried about rising sea levels but you still want to live in Florida, Palm Beach County is a relatively safe place to own property. If oceans continue to rise in the coming decades, the first areas to be submerged are Monroe, Miami-Dade, Broward, Lee and Pinellas counties, said scientists who gathered here Thursday for Florida Atlantic University’s Sea Level Rise Summit…
A ‘startup for startups’ looks to help businesses grow
Naples Daily News
Eventually, the co-working space and the incubator will be at Florida Gulf Coast University’s new Innovation Hub, which will be built off Alico Road…
Land dispute over new Florida university resolved
MiamiHerald.com
A dispute over the transfer of land donated for Florida’s newest state university is resolved. The chairman of a Board of Governors committee overseeing the birth of the state’s 12th university said on Thursday the donor agreed to drop a reverter clause from the transfer. Board resistance to the reverter threatened to halt construction of Florida Polytechnic‘s campus in Lakeland…
BCC, UCF intend to dissolve TV deal
Florida Today
If approved, the sale ends the partnership between the University of Central Florida and BCC. The schools teamed last year to create WUCF, the community’s new and only PBS channel, after WMFE discontinued TV broadcasting for economic reasons.
WMFE Sells Channel 24 to UCF
WMFE
In a move designed to solidify the future of public television in Central Florida, WMFE and the University of Central Florida have reached a preliminary agreement for UCF to purchase Channel 24 from WMFE, cementing WUCF TV’s position as the region’s PBS affiliate…
Board of Governors committee approves UCF Ph.D. in hospitality …
Orlando Business Journal
The Florida Board of Governors Academic and Student Affairs Committee has given preliminary approval for the University of Central Florida to offer a doctoral-level program in hospitality management.
Stadium turf being replaced
Gainesville Sun
The Swamp is missing something at the moment. Grass. Florida Field is being resodded, and right now the playing surface is brown dirt and gravel…
UF hopes to boost number of girls getting HPV vaccine
Gainesville Sun
There is only one vaccine that can protect against cancer, and it’s free to females covered by Medicaid and Florida KidCare. But only one-fifth of adolescent girls on Medicaid in Florida actually receive the vaccine. The University of Florida wants to change that. A $150000 grant from the Society of Adolescent Health and Medicine will be used by the UF College of Medicine …
USF athletics make gains in NCAA ratings
Tbo.com
The University of South Florida continued to show progress in the Academic Progress Rate (APR) report released Wednesday by the NCAA, with 15 of 18 sports posting positive multi-year APR trends from the 2011 report.
State College System
Florida’s College System gets an ‘A’ ranking on national report
Bizjournals.com (blog)
A national report card by the Institute for a Competitive Workforce awarded Florida’s College System an “A” based on student access and success, and efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The Florida rating was better than states including: California, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas. Florida College System Chancellor Randy Hanna in a statement congratulated the 28 institutions in the state’s college system…
VA fixes flaw in training program after Rep. Bilirakis’ complaint
Tampabay.com
A Department of Veterans Affairs job-training program for unemployed veterans scheduled to launch on July 1, allowing veterans to get up to a year of training at community colleges, would have excluded schools that offered even a single bachelor’s degree. That would leave 23 of Florida’s 28 community colleges ineligible to participate…
Daytona State College board holds off on tuition increases except …
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Despite a drop in the overall budget, the majority of Daytona State Collegestudents will not see a rise in tuition.
Edison State College to find out accreditation fate today
Naples Daily News
Edison State College officials have fired the school president and hired a new leader, ousted top administrators and pored over operating procedures at the …
Edison State College placed on probation by accrediting agency
The News-Press
Edison State College has been placed on probation by its accrediting agency, a sanction that could have long-lasting effects.Edison was found to be …
Accreditation agency puts Edison State College on probation
WZVN-TV
Edison State College has been placed on probation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the school’s accreditation agency.
FSCJ in top 10 for associate degrees
Florida Times-Union
Florida State College at Jacksonville ranked in the top 10 associate degree producers nationwide in six categories, according to U.S. Department of Education data for 2010-11…
Florida hosting two big Obama stops today
Bay News 9
President Barack Obama is making two important stops in Florida today, including an appearance at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa this afternoon.
President Obama to visit Tampa Friday
Bradenton Herald
President Barack Obama is slated to speak at a campaign event Friday in Tampa at Hillsborough Community College’s Dale Mabry campus.
IRSC ranks among top 10 most affordable US colleges
TCPalm
Indian River State College continues to rank among the top 10 of the most affordable U.S. colleges, according to a new report released last week by the U.S. …
NWF State trustees approve 2.5 percent tuition hike
The Northwest Florida Daily News
Students at Northwest Florida State College will see a 2.5 percent tuition increase in the fall…
Polk State College gets 2nd funded nursing faculty position
Bizjournals.com
The Winter Haven Hospital Foundation has pledged $400000 to Polk State College …
Independent Colleges and Universities
Interim president shares new vision for Bethune-Cookman University …
Daytona Beach News-Journal
“A new wind is blowing” across the Bethune-Cookman University campus, bringing with it a stronger focus …
ISU Welcomes to Florida Tech Space Journalists for Media Panel
Brevard Times
The International Space University (ISU) Space and Media Panel, June 26, from 8 to 10 p.m. at Florida Institute of Technology, will address …
Video: Campus Construction Underway At Lynn University For Presidential Debate
WPEC
Lynn University in Boca Raton is gearing up for the final presidential debate, now just four months away. A technical tour was held at the university today.
Nonprofit of the Year 2012
Tampa Bay Business Journal
Saint Leo University , a Catholic, liberal arts-based school for higher education, opens its doors to students of all faiths with good character, and interest in the school seems to be growing. In the fall 2011 term, 2,785 students enrolled in classes at locations throughout Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando counties, up from 1,703 students in 2008. More than 3,500 alumni live in Hillsborough County alone…
Doctors in Miami save baby with unprecedented in utero surgery
MiamiHerald.com
While Leyna was still in her mother’s womb, fetal surgeons working for the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial removed a peach-sized tumor from her mouth …
Yip Yap: Noted and Quoted FLHE Voices from Around the State
Editorial: Edison State must try to make things right
News Press
Edison State College must work hard to resolve its accreditation problems for the sake of its reputation and to regain the community’s trust in the 50-year-old school. It’s a shame that the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools on Thursday decided to put Edison on probation, the year of its Golden Jubilee…
Otto: Has Obama just run out of change?
Tbo.com
You wonder why the president of the United States — or at least his handlers — would pick the Dale Mabry campus of Hillsborough Community College for a stop on a campaign that so far has shown no momentum and instead seems to be fumbling for direction…
Editorial: In our national interest
MiamiHerald.com
Thanks to the efforts of these four Miami-area immigrants and Miami Dade College alums, who walked from Miami to Washington to plead their case for for immigration reform in 2010, a version of the “Dream Act” is now a reality…
UCF Student Cortez Whatley Joins Florida Board of Governors
Sunshine State News
University of Central Florida student body president Cortez Whatley has been named the student member of the state’s 17-member State University System Board of Governors…
Cleve Warren Appointed to FAMU Board of Trustees
Florida Times-Union
Jacksonville’s Cleve Warren, president of Essential Capital Finance, has been appointed to the Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University Board of Trustees…
5 Questions: Stephen D. Engle, Lincoln hunter and FAU prof
Palm Beach Post
Steve Engle, a history professor at Florida Atlantic University whose research interests include the Civil War, chews the fat about Honest Abe in advance of today’s premiere of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, based on the 2010 best seller…
Sci-Fi Day at MOSH expected to be galactic event
Florida Times-Union
“Science fiction is a window to the future,” said Mike Reynolds, dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Florida State College at Jacksonville…
FSU President Puts An End To Board Of Governors’ Tuition Haggling
StateImpact Florida
That’s when Florida State University president Eric Barron put his foot down. “That’s an amazing message to the faculty and the students,” Barron said, “that the ranked universities in this state will get the least resources to advance students. Those are the universities that provide the highest income to students. Those are the universities that are supposed to keep the best and the brightest students in this state.”
Fourth candidate joins race for the US District 2 seat
Tallahassee.com
Mark Schlakman, 52, an attorney and senior program director for the Center for the Advancement of Human Rights at Florida State University, kicks off his …
Exclusive: Michelle Rhee to For-Profit College Industry: “You’re Doing Incredible Work”
Huffington Post
Instead, in her prepared remarks, and in a Q&A with APSCU chair Art Keiser, CEO of Keiser University, and incoming chair David Pauldine, president of DeVry University, Rhee soft-pedaled any concerns she might have had…
Lynn University prepares for presidential debate
Sun-Sentinel
School’s out for the summer, but with just 122 days until the biggest event in its 50-year history, Lynn University is alive with activity…With 8,000 to 10,000 journalists, politicos and others converging on Boca Raton for the debate – far outnumbering the school’s 2,100 students – university chief technology officer Chris Boniforti said a new data and communications network is being created. He’s preparing for 3,000 to 4,000 Internet connections and 1,300 phone lines. He expects about 3,000 personal computers operating on campus during the debate. AT&T and Verizon will be bringing in enough mobile repeater stations to accommodate 5,000 cell phone connections.
Community Leaders Launch Campaign for Extension of Half-Penny …
WCTV
This campaign follows a detailed report by the Capital Improvements Review Team (CIRT), on behalf of the Greater Tallahassee Chamber and the local business community, chaired by Tallahassee Community College president Jim Murdaugh…
Rolling Readers Space Coast combats illiteracy by reading aloud to …
Florida Today
And that’s really important, said Nancy Brasel, an education instructor at the University of Central Florida-Palm Bay…
Metal-poor stars are rich with small planets
Space Daily
The study, co-authored by University of Florida associate professor of astronomy Eric Ford, is being published in the journal Nature…
Beach economy ‘amazingly healthy’
Gulf Breeze News
The Santa Rosa Island Authority received a special presentation from Rod Lewis, Ph.D., from the University of West Florida Hass Center for Business Research and Economic Development, on the Pensacola Beach tourism impact in Escambia County…
Shooting suspect’s aliases confound authorities
Florida Today
Suspects giving false information is not uncommon in arrests and raises significant challenges for police, according to University of West Florida criminal justice professor and 30-year law enforcement veteran Richard M. Hough. “It’s a widespread problem when people for various minor or serious reasons try to fool law enforcement about who they are,” Hough said.
Releases and Web Stories
Most Florida 12th Graders Didn’t Apply for Federal Financial Aid
Press Release – Florida College Access Network
Tampa, FL- School’s out for the summer, but before leaving campus, new numbers show most Florida high school seniors did not apply for federal financial aid. According to a Florida College Access Network (Florida C.A.N.!) analysis of federal data, only 37.8-percent of high school seniors in Florida completed the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) as of June 10, 2012…
ESPN Collaborates with Full Sail University to Produce the 2012 …
Melodika.net (press release)
arrow Articles arrow ESPN Collaborates with Full Sail University to Produce the 2012 NBA Finals Opening Sequence.
Fitch Affirms University of Central Florida’s Dormitory Revenue …
MarketWatch (press release)
The bonds are issued on behalf of the University of Central Florida (UCF). The Rating Outlook is Stable. SECURITY. The bonds are secured by a net revenue …
