Scott to Universities: Come Up With $10,000 Degrees
Florida Gov. Rick Scott wants the state’s universities to come up with a way to make higher education more affordable. His challenge could save Dunedin households thousands.
Dunedin residents who find themselves scrimping and saving to pay for college might have it a little easier in the years to come if Gov. Rick Scott gets his way.
The Republican leader is challenging the state’s 12 public universities to come up with a way to create $10,000 degrees, according to TBO.com.
"You should be able to work and go to school and not end up with debt," Scott said in an interview on News Channel 8. "Yet those degrees cost so much money and tuition is so high that that's not going to happen. So I put out this challenge to our state colleges."
Scott’s challenge comes on the heels of major budget cuts to the state’s university system. This year alone, Florida’s universities took a $300 million cut in funding, prompting protests as the University of South Florida and elsewhere. To make up for those cuts, schools like USF have raised their tuition rates.
Even so, TBO points out, Florida’s tuition costs are lower than the national average. In-state tuition and fees comes in around $6,000 a year for undergraduates.
Scott, however, says there’s still plenty of fat in the budgets to cut.
Are you worried about paying for college for your kids? What do you think about Scott’s challenge? Is it possible to cut enough fat to enable the state to offer $10,000 degrees? Share your thoughts in the comments section.
-Ed Harris-
9:24 am on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
What a perfect example of what an out of touch Governor looks like! Add this to the pile of idiotic ideas and/or plans Tricky Ricky has thrown out there!
A good education is not cheap, you can pay for it through taxes or pay directly to that school either way it's not cheap and it should not be! Cheapening a degree means that the paper you get at the end is cheap. This man could care less about real Florida problem, remember he is the one that axed almost 3 billion in education then turned around and budgeted 1.5 billion claiming "look at me, look how I put 1.5 billion in education". Soooo looking forward to 2014!
Maryellen Farinas
11:49 am on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Yep, looking forward to re-elect him. The overinflated salaries of college professors, many of them of foreign origin, all the free scholarships offered to foreign nationals... that's where the problem lies. Morsi, the Egyptian president studied on a foreign scholarship at USC, and then taught at another California university for a number of years. A Moslem Brotherhood extremist... Really?
-Ed Harris-
12:18 pm on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
History will repeat itself in 2014 as it did in 2012 People like Romney, Allen West, Paul Ryan and on and on were sent packing with their Tea Bags in hand as will Gov Tricky Ricky! Foreign Origin???? Are you kidding me? We are a country of immigrants including you and me! Please ramble on! It so helps the average Joe out there realize just why it's so important to fight this bias, hate filled kind of racist rhetoric!