The Board of Governors recently approved a 20-year initiative (Forward by Design) to foster enhanced quality, expand bachelor's degree production and increase graduate and professional degrees important to Florida's future. ...more

January 25, 2008

GIRLS SOCCER Nature Coast graduates one senior, Brittany Allen, a 16-year-old with a 4.2 GPA. And oh yeah, she scored a goal too. ...more

January 15, 2008

Talk about icing on the cake. The Nature Coast girls' varsity soccer team hosted Central Thursday night, which also happened to be Senior Night. And not only did the 12-6-4 Sharks win 2-0, their only senior Brittany Allen, a 16-year-old with a 4.2 GPA, scored the second of two goals on the evening. ...more

January 15, 2008

The plaintiffs fighting for the Board of Governors' right to set public university tuition in Florida have no standing to sue the Legislature unless they can show otherwise, a Leon County judge ruled today. ...more

January 3, 2008

There are 25,341 parking spaces at Arizona State University, but don't count on getting one for an 11 a.m. class, as Daniel Heard, a senior, learned the hard way. ...more

October 6, 2007

An Arizona-based foundation that made headlines last year by giving millions to Florida colleges and universities has set up shop in Tampa. ...more

September 21, 2007

Thanks for reporting the serious problems facing our state universities, their students and Florida's economy ('U.S. News' Latest Reports Shows State's Universities Are Slipping,' Our Opinion, Aug. 25). In a nutshell, our state universities are overcrowded (Florida has five of the nations 15 largest universities), increasingly under-funded, and as you have noted, slipping in the quality of the education provided to their students who are increasingly packed into excessively large classes with graduate assistants and part-time instructors replacing more qualified professors, a shortage of academic advisers and increased time required for graduation. All of this casts a long shadow on the quality of the education that we provide our students, the economic future of our state, and is deeply disappointing to all of us who have worked over the years to provide our state and its students with a superior state university system and a stronger state economy. ...more

September 12, 2007

Several university student leaders on Tuesday told Gov. Charlie Crist they could accept a tuition increase if it's used for such purposes as reducing class sizes and offering more need-based financial aid. The governor remained cool to the idea. ...more

September 5, 2007