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House Will Propose College Tuition Hike
March 27, 2013
Splitting from the Senate and Gov. Rick Scott, the House will propose a six percent tuition increase for students in state universities and colleges.
House Appropriations Chairman Seth McKeel, R-Lakeland, said the House wants to prevent Florida’s universities from “falling further and further behind their peers throughout the country.” He added, “I just think we need to keep pace.”
Senate Education Appropriations Chairman Bill Galvano, R-Bradenton, told the Lakeland newspaper that the Senate will not include a tuition increase in its budget proposal. Scott also is opposed to the idea.
By The News Service of Florida
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6 Responses to “House Will Propose College Tuition Hike”
Yes, college is becoming unaffordable and I pray they find a solution that works for all. My daughter who attends Georgia Tech ( on scholarship) has to pay $750.00 for a one year parking permit so in that respect $75.00 doesn’t look that bad. Yes, I pay both because my other child goes to UWF. Now, if they take a class in summer, there is no help. It is getting very difficult to attain a higher education with all the associated cost. Praying for reasonable solutions.
I want to go back to school to earn my degree, but I simply cannot afford it! when I first went to UWF, the parking pass was $25 for a year. Now it has gone up to $60-$75. That is an outrageous amount of money for parking that is horrendous. But that is only one of the problems with how much everything costs. Book prices are ridiculous and you can’t sell them back for hardly anything, you have added transportation costs, random required reading materials from the teachers, test books, tutoring, etc. It all adds up very quickly. I know that an education is something that no one could ever take from me, but I also can’t justify drowning in debt for it either.
@PSC student, Graduate level tuition is generally triple the cost of undergraduate tuition, and that’s just for in-state. If you add cost of textbooks, parking permits, miscellaneous prequisite tests, transcripts, etc. PLUS a tuition hike it is probable that you have exceeded $2500 in that first class. Community colleges are not representative of all Florida universities. The point is, college students are already struggling. Education needs to be affordable or students will quit going.
PSC Student,
It has to do with out-of-state tuition prices.
Abe,
There is only two ways I can think of that one class costs $2500. 1. The class is 4-8 credit hours or 2. The student is taking a class for the third or fourth time. At PSC the tuition is $104 per credit hour. I believe at UWF the cost is around $270 per credit hour. Our community college has one of th lowest tuition rates in the state.
I am not trying to bicker with you but your statement that “it should not cost $2500 for one student to take one class” is to broad of a statement or scare tactic to turn our community away from going to college.
Oh, I thought of another possible reason a class could cost that much, the student might be enrolled in one of the for profit schools, like Fortis and Virginia College. The state does not have any control over their rates as they are “for profit”.
The GOP has been screaming that we have a spending problem, not a revenue problem. Now they want to increase the tuiution on the very people that can afford it least. Let’s look at the universities budgets and find ways to cut that first. It should not cost $2500 for one student to take one class.