Pruitt: Do you want an unelected board setting tuition?

Sen. Ken Pruitt used his opening address of the 2008 legislative session to make clear that one of his priorities is getting to voters a proposed constitutional amendment that resurrects the elected education commissioner and strips the 6-year-old Board of Governors of most of its university oversight powers.

"We will address the deficiencies in the constitutional amendment passed in 2002," Pruitt said, referring to the amendment that created the BOG. He said it failed to address "what was perhaps the most important question," which is who sets tuition?

"We are going to leave it to voters," he said. "Do they want an unelected board to set tuition? Or do they want their elected legislators to set it?"

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Why would anyone want the idiots in Tallahassee setting tuition, or for that matter, much of anything that requires native intelligence. They have proven time and time again how they cannot be trusted to do the people's work. They appear to be understudying for jobs in D.C.

Hey, don't associate Tallahassee with those idiots.... they come from all over the state, including your backyard.

I have given up all hope for the state of higher ed. in Florida. Faculty will start to leave all of our state universities. Senator Pruitt is misguided and does not have any concept of what a truly great education entails. If you want to compete with the best you must fund the system, and not starve it.

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agreed there are many idiots (legislative and BOG).
somebody has to do it.
I would trust in 160 legislators elected by the people than 17 members of the BOG appointed by the Governor.
University folks should stay in their ivory tower of academia but shouldn't be given the keys to the car!