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UWF Approves Tuition Hike, Purchase Of Country Club
June 15, 2012
The University of West Florida has approved a tuition hike, and the university is moving forward with plans to purchase a nearby country club.
Thursday, UWF’s Board of Trustees approved a 15 percent increase per credit hour. If the tuition increase is approved at the state level, undergraduates will pay $28 more per credit hour while grad students will see a credit hour increase of $51.
The increase, according to the university, is to help offset a $12 million cut in state funding.
The UWF Board of Trustees also voted Thursday morning gave the go ahead to their property development company Business Enterprises, Inc., to purchase the Scenic Hills Country Club for $2.2 million. Business Enterprises, Inc. will make the final purchase decision in the coming weeks.
The purchase will not use any taxpayer dollars. It’s expected to generate additional income for UWF to stabilize the university’s future.
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14 Responses to “UWF Approves Tuition Hike, Purchase Of Country Club”
What people do not realize is that Florida constitution requires a balanced budget…WISH OBAMA had to live within his means!!!!
P s. To. The cry babies over gov Scott and how the money is all “separated”
Smoke and mirrors governmental accounting used to protect school administrators from being held accountable.
Btw I am not a tea party republican just someone who has worked hard all their life, paid their own way through college and raised two TAXPAYERS
We are just people who are SICK of see our tax dollars wasted
This is infuriating to me. I worked hard and saved my money So I could go back to grad school now I am looking at a 15% tuition hike . So uwf can buy a golf course and have a football team. In addition uwf staff is going around town talking about some hair brained idea about some kind of historical district around the 28 buildings they own downtown.
Here is my solution
National search for REAL uwf pres not a puppet (was there even a competition for her job
Do not buy golf course and sell buildings downtown
Fire 50% of uwf staff and make the remaing WORK
Untenure lazy professors who do not update materially, i.e. teach by power point. Let there be competition and the results will be better teachers for less money
Once above is done LOWER TUITION
Can you tell I am mad
UWF was a good college, with reasonable tuition. Now only people with money will send their kids there. So the college will not be serving our community, instead it will be run as a business. If you have to pay higher tuition then you may as well go to a more well-known college. I’m disappointed in UWF and the people who run it.
stupid is buying some thing you do not need and passing it on for others to pay for it By the way what does football teams, and golf courses and maritime parks have to do with education?I would cut their funding to if this is how they choose to spend it.Face it, they want a preppy school. They are taking what use to be a good college and driving it in the ground.
Maybe you should direct your outrage towards Governor Scott and the legislature who have slashed higher education funding to the bone over the past two years. The only option given the schools in the Florida SUS is a 15% tution increase, every school in the system has done so in order to survive.
BEI is an independent non-profit business entity affiliated with UWF. BEI bought Scenic Hills, not UWF. The money came from a $1.1 million bank loan and $1.1 million in funds generated by vendor contracts held by BEI for food services at UWF. Profits from all BEI holdings including Scenic Hills have an 80-20 spilt with 80 percent going to UWF and 20 per cent kept by BEI for future growth.
Not one penny of tution money went into the Scenic Hills purchase. The reason UWF partnered with BEI was to develop cash flow to replace the massive budget cuts from Tallahassee. I find it hysterical and very hypocritical that those who are most critical of UWF are Tea Party Republicans who decry tax supported institutions. UWF, instead of crying over the lost revenue, has entered into the capatalist system in order to make their own money.
Seems very strange…
its like no one even considered that maybe instead of raising tuition that they should not buy the golf course
it is very odd to see both of these in the same article, “state funding is cut 12 million to UWF, so they are having to hike tuition, but the purchase of a golf course is approved”
How about not buy the SH Country Club and lower tuition rates or keep them the same! I am assuming they different “colors” of money, out of different pots?
Let me get this straight, bottom line, UWF is increasing tuition because money is tight, but buying a golf course. Why? Seems insane to me!
Students that qualify for the top bright futures used to get a full ride scholarship. With the increase in tutition, the “full” bright futures is not even paying 50% of tuition now. How sad.
Seems the board of UWF would like to run things the same way Mr. Obama does. Buy what you do not need or can afford and let some one else pay for it. What a joke!Best way to run off students is to charge to much. If that is their goal. Then they are going to be successful at that.
I am SO SO glad that I was able to graduate in the fall semester. Tuition had almost doubled since I started in 2007 and apparently had no plans on slowing down. UWF is a good school, but the new president wants to make it urban. She wants to get rid of the boardwalks, the trees, and most of the natural draw of the school. If you have noticed, the majority of the trees have been clear cut from the school. It now looks like a very urban school and I don’t like it. What I enjoyed most about UWF is the very natural look and feel and all the wildlife. I don’t agree with what she is doing and plans to do and I think that this tuition hike is ridiculous and not justified.
We are paying 15% more because we can’t afford to stay at the prices we are at.?!?… but we got enough cash to drop on a 2.2 MILLION dollar “Country Club”… They are making it so hard to afford to go to school … with no outside help a student can expect to pay around 3k for a semester at UWF…That is just not a option for most… and the standards for financial aid are so high I was denied help although I honest to God needed it!…
Hopefully UWF won’t increase the green fees as consistently as they do tuition.