Tallahassee Lawmaker Proposes 7 Percent Pay Raises for State Workers
January 22, 2013
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A Florida House member representing tens of thousands of state employees—who haven't had a general pay raise in six years—filed a bill Friday to give all state workers a 7 percent pay hike ... Continue Reading →
Florida University Presidents Want Deal: More State Funding in Exchange for No Tuition Hike
December 07, 2012
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The presidents of Florida's state universities have an offer for the Legislature: Give us $118 million and we won't raise tuition. "What we're asking for this year is a significant investment from the state, tied to specific goals to universities ... Continue Reading →
Brogan Spells Out Performance-based Plan to Senate Panel
December 07, 2012
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Chancellor Frank Brogan went before a Senate appropriations subcommittee Thursday and explained the university system’s plan to freeze tuition if lawmakers give schools more money. Brogan told the panel ... Continue Reading →
Higher rates for non-STEM students bound to backfire
December 03, 2012
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Gov. Rick Scott says he wants more majors in science, technology, engineering and mathematics — the STEM fields. His Blue Ribbon Task Force on Higher Education Reform recently recommended achieving this goal by charging non-STEM students more. The task force report called this "differ ... Continue Reading →
3 to 1: That’s the Best Ratio of Tenure-Track Faculty to Administrators, a Study Concludes
November 05, 2012
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"The balance between people who are actually in the trenches and those who are overseeing that work has gotten grossly out of line," says Robert E. Martin, Emeritus Boles Professor of Economics at Centre College and an author of the study. "That imbalance is one of the primary reasons ... Continue Reading →
Cuts to Higher Education Threaten Florida’s Economic Growth
August 28, 2012
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In just three years Florida’s higher education funding per student decreased by 40 percent, according to a new report by national public policy center Demos and the Florida-based Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy (RISEP). The situation is only looking grimmer, with the ... Continue Reading →
New Budget Cut Questions
May 24, 2012
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In a message to you a couple of weeks ago I listed a number of questions to which I suggested members of the university community – faculty, staff, students – deserved an answer. The chief ones, of course, were why the administration is not drawing on the university's reserves ... Continue Reading →
Message on the Budget Cuts from GAU-UF, our Sister UFF Chapter
May 07, 2012
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The last few years have been frustrating for the Gator Nation. Even while independent audits show that UF’s budget condition continues to improve (1), President Bernie Machen has desperately tried to convince us that the University is in crisis due to budget cuts from the State ... Continue Reading →
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