Florida Universities

This week nearly 1,000 people met by Zoom to plan targeted boycotts and lobbying efforts

Florida’s public universities and colleges have just two weeks to turn over six years’ worth of records on staffing, research, and grant funding as part of the first formal information request under Gov. Ron DeSantis’ newly mandated Department of Government Efficiency – a sweeping effort to identify “inefficiencies” in higher education.

A business plan outlining sweeping changes at New College of Florida is “not financially viable” in its current state, a University of Florida business school faculty member said in an analysis that critiqued New College’s “strategic vision.”

Pointing to Florida’s relatively low tuition costs and saying universities face increased demand from out-of-state students, university system officials are floating the idea of raising tuition for students who come from other states.

Facing a proposed ten percent budget cut, Florida’s 12 state universities and their leaders are pledging to soften that blow as much as possible for…