<p>The university, in the ever-competitive world of higher education, elects to push this percentage, which still is higher than UF, even if the difference is small. </p>
<p>FSU’s emphasis, from what I have read, is in attracting students from families where no one has attended college before. I’m not too sure I agree with that as an FSU alumnus and have written to the Administration about it. I was told that FSU could easily improve FTIC stats, but they’d have a greater number of white females from wealthy families than they want. </p>
<p>Does UF include IFAS expenditures in calculating Student Related Expenditures/FTE? I find it surprising UF has such a larger number than FSU. Knowing that IFAS is distributed all over Florida and is not always related to instruction on the Gainesville campus, that could be a bit of fluff. </p>
<p>It seems to suggest those dollars relate to education on the campus, not in every one of Florida’s 67 counties, where IFAS is located.</p>