<p>An interesting article wherein FSU President Barron is quoted:</p>
<p>More</a> universities charging more tuition for harder majors ? USATODAY.com</p>
<p>His quote doesn’t exactly mesh with the reality of the FSU Differential Fee. </p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://financialaid.fsu.edu/apply/cost_ungrad.html]According”>http://financialaid.fsu.edu/apply/cost_ungrad.html]According</a> to FSU’s 2012-2013 Cost of Attendance<a href=“wait,%20they%20have%20that%20now?%20I%20was%20told%20by%20fin%20aid%20it%20wouldn’t%20be%20up%20till%20after%20Gov.%20Scott%20decides%20what%20to%20do%20with%20the%20tuition%20bill…”>/url</a>, the Differential Fee is $1320 next year. </p>
<p>That’s over $5,000 over 4 years. Not $500. Heck, the Differential Fee is over $500 a semester as it is.</p>
<p>One flaw I see with the tuition differential charges and with the proposed market rate tuition bill is that the additional fees have to be okayed by both FSU’s board of trustees and also the Florida Board of Governors–if the administration at FSU proposes extra tuition be charged, in theory the two bodies act as a safeguard before implementing any higher tuition. The problem though is that most of the trustees and governors are appointed by the governor. So there is a potential of non arms length boards, which are nothing more than rubber stamps for the governor, deciding what tuition will be charged or not charged. Even the student representative governor on the BOG is now governor appointed instead of selected by the state universities presidents’ council–that was just changed so the Florida governor would have an even tighter grip on the BOG. </p>
<p>I don’t want the governor running the whole state university sytem without checks and balances.</p>