Monday, July 2, 2007

Florida Higher Education is Run by Assholes, Part I

It is pretty plain that I’m not enamored with UCF President John Hitt (see here, here, and here), but at least Hitt doesn’t argue like a fucking retard. T.K. Wetherell, Florida State President and Former Speaker of the Florida House, justifies increasing tuition at FSU by stating that his granddaughter’s elementary school tuition is $8,500 a year. T.K. then argues that “asking us to run a world-class institution on half the tuition of a second grader, well, it just can’t be done.”

Seriously? T.K.’s quote is evidence that he never learned critical thinking skills in college. Because if he did, he would realize that there is an essential difference between tuition for his granddaughter’s private school and tuition at FSU. The tuition at his granddaughter’s school covers the entire cost of her attendance, but the tuition an in-state FSU student pays covers only about a quarter of the cost of attendance.