Budget Cut Backs

Colleges & Universities Florida State University
10

<p>Until the Florida Legislature comes out with a budget that the Governor will sign or not veto parts thereof (he has a line-item veto), no one will know for sure.</p>

<p>The waters are too muddy to know for sure right now. The president of FSU has said repeatedly that quality will not suffer.</p>

<p>The impact on FSU will likely be:

  1. Freshman enrollment will be cut by 20%
  2. Weak programs will be cut first.
  3. Strong programs will be protected.
  4. Expansion will slow for a while.
  5. New programs will not likely be added unless they are funded.
  6. There will be a strong push for programs to generate funded research.</p>

<p>I do not see these things as all bad. Sometimes in budget cut back periods the chaff is split off from the wheat and clarity returns to management.</p>

<p>Have faith.</p>