June 13, 2008
For months, they waited. They checked their mailboxes, e-mail inboxes and their egos, as statewide budget cuts caused Florida’s public universities to stall their admissions notifications to thousands of students, leaving them wondering whether they’d be admitted in the fall.
Now that the 2008 legislative session has ended, the State University System has learned how deep their cuts will be. At Florida Gulf Coast University, this means turning away otherwise qualified students for the first time in the university’s 11-year history. State-mandated enrollment caps forced FGCU to stick to its fall 2007 enrollment, whittling the 2,300 students the university anticipated to 1,850, said FGCU Chief of Staff Susan Evans.
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