- February 15, 2016 - Next Step in the Budget Process
The House and Senate both passed their budget bills last week. Now they must work out differences and pass one final bill. To that end, the House asked the Senate to either pass the House versions or agree to hammer out the differences in conference committees. The Senate took up the House bills, passed strike-all amendments which removed the House budget bills’ language and replaced it with the Senate language – in simpler terms: the Senate passed their own bills under the House bill numbers. This is customary as they alternate a Senate bill number (even) or a House bill number (odd) every other year.
The next step is for the differences to be worked out through the Budget Conference Committee process. Conferees have not yet been named, but we expect that process to begin soon. Once they reach agreement, the final version of the budget will be printed and “hit the desk” starting the clock on the required 72 hour cooling off period before the final vote by both chambers. After that, the bill goes to the governor, who has line item veto power, but he must sign the bill within 7 days of receiving it.
- January 29, 2016
The House and Senate Appropriations subcommittees completed the first step of the 2016-17 budget process when they introduced their respective Chair’s recommended budgets on January 28. The highlights of the budgets as it pertains to higher education are as follows. Note: Tuition for Florida colleges is not included in the state appropriations below but estimates are at approximately $1.2 billion or an increase of $37 million.
Senate 2015-16 Senate 16-17
(Proposed)Increase Increase
(Percent)House 16-17
(Proposed)Increase Increase
(Percent)Colleges 1,182 1,227 45 3.8% 1,206 24 2% Universities 4,547 4,681 134 3% 4,730 183 4% In millions of dollars - November 23, 2015 -
Proposed Budget for 2016-17
- $1 billion increase over 2015-16
- June 19, 2015 -
Florida lawmakers pass $78 billion state budget
- Medcaid not expanded
- Emergence of last minute "turkeys"
- Questionable environmental spending
- How FIU Spends Its Money - 2014
This report analyzes the trends in Florida International University (FIU) expenditures on faculty and faculty salaries compared to expenditures on administration and administrators' salaries for the years 2004 through 2013. Previous reports were produced in 2004, 2007, 2009 and 2011. This report extends the analysis of FIU's expenditures with data available in October 2013, including faculty salaries through the 2013-2014 academic year. This report supports previous findings that FIU is experiencing administrative bloat, expanding the resources of administration at the expense of instruction, research and service.
- Download the 2014 report in MS Word format.
Due to the original format of the MS Word document, a PDF version of the file has three parts:
- Where does FIU spend its money? A follow-up study of FIU Expenditures on Faculty and Higher Level Administration with special emphasis on the two years between 2008-09 to 2010-11.
- Where does FIU spend its money? We are disseminating this report because we think it is important for all FIU faculty to understand our administration's priorities, especially within the context of the ongoing budget crisis.
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