State Universities Starved for Investment

Florida’s state funding of higher education and its university tuition rates are both far below the national average. For the state to build anything resembling a first-rate university system, it needs more money from both the Legislature and the students. It’s a false choice to suggest otherwise, as the current debate in Tallahassee pretends. University presidents were at the capital this week to float a request for $118 million in additional funding in the 2013-14 budget.