13 percent tuition increase for UNF

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Tufsu - Here are the numbers you quoted, from a USF article:

Meanwhile, a bill waits on Gov. Scott's desk that would allow top universities â€" currently just UF and Florida State University â€" to seek unlimited tuition increases, provided they meet about a dozen performance benchmarks that would contribute to "excellence."

That sounds a lot like the idea a few years ago, when state leaders approved a program known as "tuition differential" that allows total tuition increases of up to 15 percent a year. That program went into effect in 2008, under the banner that the extra money would be used to enhance students' education.

But in the same time period, state support has decreased by about half, with extra tuition money coming nowhere close to filling the gap.

In 1990, general tax revenues funded 71 percent of per-student costs while tuition covered 18 percent. In 2010, taxes funded 49 percent of per-student costs while tuition covered 40 percent.

That begs the question, where are the general tax revenues going in this day and age?

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UNF tuition costs have skyrocketed since I attended, which was around 7 years ago. Still, they're cheaper than many comparable universities in other parts of the country. Unfortunately the people who bear the brunt of the cost increases are people like my wife and I, who worked our way thru and paid as we went. That was possible then but I don't think, given how expensive it is, that it's possible nowadays. Not without dragging it out even longer.

Which leads me to my next comment - UNF definitely earned the "U Never Finish" nickname. Their advising department is nigh-incompetent and their class scheduling is terrible. It took my wife and I six or seven years to finish. We both deeply regret having gone to UNF instead of a "real" college but it was, at the time, the cheap option. Unfortunately the caliber of education provided by UNF in our respective majors left us poorly suited to enter the job market and we spent a couple years playing catch-up.

But I don't think the quality of education is their concern, at this point.