The 81-year-old founder of Florida's prepaid college program trekked back to the Capitol on Thursday to plead with lawmakers not to allow six state universities to raise their tuition. ...more

March 20, 2009

Almost 70 years ago, as Germany invaded France, President Franklin D. Roosevelt received an urgent visit from Vannevar Bush, then chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics and formerly vice president and dean of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...more

September 21, 2008

University of South Florida President Judy Genshaft has the unenviable job of cutting $35.6 million from the university's budget in what's described as the worst fiscal crisis to hit higher education in a generation. ...more

May 23, 2008

Florida's undergraduate students will pay at least 6 percent more in tuition next fall, even though the state's university leaders would have them pay more. ...more

May 9, 2008

The University of Florida is laying off 20 faculty members and 118 staff members, leaving 290 empty positions unfilled, reducing research, eliminating degrees and cutting student enrollment as it deals with a $47 million budget cut. ...more

May 6, 2008

SRI International, the Menlo Park, Calif.-based research giant that recently opened an outpost in the Tampa Bay area, could lend its guidance and expertise to scientists developing promising medicines at Florida universities. ...more

October 24, 2007

Falling school rankings and rising student-faculty ratios have convinced both lawmakers and the Board of Governors that Florida's college tuition rates must go up. ...more

September 27, 2007