Florida: Lawmakers let universities slide into mediocrity

by E Wayne Ross on February 5, 2008

St Petersburg Times: Lawmakers let universities slide into mediocrity
A Times Editorial

Those in Tallahassee who deplore an 8 percent tuition increase are being spiteful to public universities or willfully missing the point. The meager tuition is but a symptom of the financial disease in Florida higher education – and young, eager, prepared students are about to suffer in historic numbers.