The universities and the Florida Senate

Here's the news story about yesterday's committee meeting in the state Senate, where senators got pretty huffy about taking over the state university system. They have worked themselves into the conviction that they are the good guys, and that it entitles them to bully, snipe at and feel superior to the university chancellor. Here's my column in today's newspaper on the same topic.

The most surreal exchange, I thought, was where the committee chairman, Don Gaetz, a Panhandle Republican, criticized the performance of the universities under chancellor Marc Rosenberg's "watch'' -- when the very factors driving that performance, low tuition, worst teacher-student ratio in the nation, etc., are precisely the fault of the Legislature.

I hope that Floridians recognize this for what it is...

Comments

[Don Mott]

And this is a good example of why the voters elected to impose term limits. Too many people want too much power. The display of disrespect to Chancellor Rosenberg and the voters of our once fine state by Pruitt and friends is disgusting to say the least!