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High price of STEM: Engineers cost Florida colleges twice as much as business grads | Florida Trend Education
High price of STEM: Engineers cost Florida colleges twice as much as business grads
A new survey of programs in Florida's public university system reveals that the cost of producing graduates in engineering is about double that of producing graduates in low-cost majors, such as business. The study also found that per-credit costs for undergraduate degrees fell more than 15% between 1999 and 2013. More from Campus Technology, Vocativ, and Education Dive.
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» Read the abstract of the study: The Costs of and Net Returns to College Major
» See a pdf of the full study here
Florida state colleges gear up for legislative battles
Florida state colleges are preparing for a renewed legislative fight this spring over how the 28-college system is governed and the number of bachelor's degrees they can award. Some have suggested the state college system, which has 28 schools serving about 800,000 full- and part-time students, should be put under a separate board similar to the Board of Governors. [Source: WJXT]
Pay gap between college grads and everyone else at a record
Americans with no more than a high school degree have fallen so far behind college graduates in their economic lives that the earnings gap between college grads and everyone else has reached its widest point on record. [Source: AP]
Consensus emerging on need to control higher ed costs in Florida
The future could get a little brighter for some Florida college students. There’s a growing consensus to increase awards for some of the state’s highest academic performers. Legislative and state leaders seem to be in agreement when it comes to lowering the cost of higher ed. [Source: WLRN]
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» Editorial: Higher education plans fall short
Florida Supreme Court tosses school vouchers lawsuit
The Florida Supreme Court is preserving the state’s largest private school voucher program and ending a bitter legal battle over them. The court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit that the state’s main teacher union had filed against a program used by nearly 98,000 school children. More from the AP, the Daily Business Review, and the Times/Herald.
› College readiness program making gains in Glades County
2016 turned out to be a successful and promising year for the students and teachers in the AVID About Success student program in Glades County, the Glades Education Foundation said.
› Florida GOP leaders back Betsy DeVos for U.S. Education secretary
Some notable Florida conservatives have put their backing behind the billionaire charter school and voucher advocate to become the federal education secretary.
» See also: DeVos will deliver on school reform: Jeb Bush
› Have college dreams? Florida Realtors® seeks student scholarship winners
Student Scholarship Program offered through Florida Realtors® Education Foundation Inc., now in its eighth year, has awarded a total of $1,140,300 in scholarship funding, which helped 686 students go to college or university.
› Education Dept. gives ‘F’ on student debt to law school in Florida
Two law schools have landed on the U.S. Department of Education’s list of college programs with extremely high student loan debt compared with graduates’ earnings. Florida Coastal School of Law and Charleston School of Law are identified as failing on the department’s “gainful employment list."
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