Gov. Charlie Crist already vetoed the Legislature's proposed 5-percent tuition increase for in-state public university undergraduates, and now he has 15 days to decide the fate of a bill that would allow the state's three research universities to charge up to 40 percent more in undergraduate tuition than their Florida peers.
Lawmakers sent Crist the bill Friday, the same day FSU's president announced an enrollment freeze in response to Crist's overall tuition veto last month.
University leaders aren't hopeful about this other tuition bill, given the governor's repeated mantra that families should not be burdened with higher costs.
--Shannon Colavecchio Vansickler, Times higher education reporter
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The policies of Higher education facilities like USF are already draining the pocketbooks of transfer students. I transfered to USF from another state and it blows my mind how many credits they would not accpet from other "accredited" universities. The classes I had to repeat were a joke. They contained the same or even less information than previously learned. How is this fair to pay money and valueable time to repreat classes I had already passed with A's. It is nothing but money scam.
Posted by: Lina | June 18, 2007 at 01:47 PM