As college students “Occupy USF” this afternoon, one of their biggest complaints is the rising cost of tuition. Yes, it’s up…but it’s still cheaper to go to college in Florida than just about anywhere else. Our friends at The Florida Current have come up with a cool graphic showing the tuition trends, which they’re allowing […]
Why should a student need a parent to fill out a financial aid application to renew a merit-based scholarship if the student pays for his or her education? And why should a parent put their personal information at risk if they receive no benefit from the scholarship? That’s what Palm Beach County resident John Loeffler […]
A Polk County business group overwhelmingly supports the University of South Florida Polytechnic’s bid to create a new state university independent from the USF system, according to the Lakeland Ledger. State Sen. J.D. Alexander, chairman of the Senate budget committee, rallied support for an independent school after a survey of students and faculty showed a […]
University of South Florida president Judy Genshaft told two state Senators that any audit of USF Polytechnic is up to the regional campus chancellor. Republican state Sens. Paula Dockery and Mike Fasano asked Genshaft to audit USF Polytechnic after learning the school hired regional chancellor Marshall Goodman’s son to run a business incubator program. The […]
Below is the lawsuit from the Southern Poverty Law Center challenging Florida’s college tuition rules. The group argues that children of undocumented immigrants should not be charged out-of-state tuition despite those students being both U.S. citizens and Florida residents. StateImpact Florida profiled one such student in August.
Influential state Sen. J.D. Alexander made his pitch for a separate Polk County university to the State University System Board of Governors Thursday. Alexander, R-Polk and chairman of the Senate budget committee, wants the University of South Florida Polytechnic to split from the USF system. WUSF radio’s Steve Newborn reports: So far, the site of […]
Seminole County could turn classroom thermostats all the way up and athletes may have to pay to wear their school’s uniform. The wife of a Polk County Tea Party congressman led a failed effort to raise money for college counselors whose positions were eliminated. Many students can no longer walk to catch the bus after […]
Education-related bill are stacking up in Tallahassee, four months before lawmakers return for the 2012 session. Yesterday we wrote about Sen. Joe Negron’s bill that would allow voters to once again choose the state education commissioner. Here are other topics that will be on the calendar come January. School Funding At the top of the […]
The number of Hispanic college students increased 24 percent in one year, according to a Pew Hispanic Center report released Thursday. Hispanics age 18-24 now outnumber black students of the same age on college campuses. Nearly 350,000 more Hispanics were enrolled in college 2010 than in 2009, according to U.S. Census Bureau Data analyzed by […]
College tuition in Florida is already among the least expensive in the country. And it’s lowest for Florida residents who attend state colleges. But some residents are being charged the out-of-state rate. Florida is the only state known as a “receiver state” for immigrant families that does not offer in-state tuition to U.S.-born students with […]
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