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RSS FeedMembers of Awake Pinellas captured the voices of students angered with recent plans calling for substantial state cuts to the USF budget, as well as most other Florida public universities, setting up a small video camera by the Harborwalk fountain. Awake Pinellas is the local branch of Awake the State, a Florida group that started
While USF Tampa faces deep funding cuts under a budget proposed in the Florida Senate, direct funding to USF St. Petersburg will remain relatively unchanged. If the Senate’s version of the budget passes the House and Gov. Rick Scott unmodified, an unlikely occurrence, USFSP will take a cut of $600,000—a 2.6 percent reduction in state
Sen. J.D. Alexander overlooked one key component in his proposal to cut USF’s state funding by nearly 60 percent—the students that would have to deal with the fallout. Alexander’s proposal would pillage $79 million of state money from USF. An additional $25 million was to be held in contingency to ensure USF’s cooperation in a
As the Polytechnic decision last November echoes through the state capitol building, battle lines drawn during the debate are being reflected in legislation. Bills making their way through the Senate would give the University of Florida and Florida State University the ability to raise tuition at an accelerated rate; the student representative on the Board
Typical Tallahassee wheeling and dealing allowed for language to be written into the Senate’s version of the budget for the University of South Florida Polytechnic, located in picturesque Lakeland, to become the State University System of Florida’s 12th independent university. The Board of Governors, the state agency charged with overseeing SUSF, agreed (unfortunately) to a
