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	<title>Comments on: UWF Approves Tuition Hike, Purchase Of Country Club</title>
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		<title>By: Frank</title>
		<link>http://www.northescambia.com/2012/06/uwf-approves-tuition-hike-purchase-of-country-club/comment-page-1#comment-131384</link>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 04:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What people do not realize is that Florida constitution requires a balanced budget...WISH OBAMA had to live within his means!!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What people do not realize is that Florida constitution requires a balanced budget&#8230;WISH OBAMA had to live within his means!!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Joan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Joan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>P s.   To. The cry babies over gov Scott and how the money is all &quot;separated&quot; 

Smoke and mirrors governmental accounting used to protect school administrators from being held accountable.  

Btw I am not a tea party republican just someone who has worked hard all their life, paid their own way through college and raised two TAXPAYERS

We are just people who are SICK of see our tax dollars wasted</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>P s.   To. The cry babies over gov Scott and how the money is all &#8220;separated&#8221; </p>
<p>Smoke and mirrors governmental accounting used to protect school administrators from being held accountable.  </p>
<p>Btw I am not a tea party republican just someone who has worked hard all their life, paid their own way through college and raised two TAXPAYERS</p>
<p>We are just people who are SICK of see our tax dollars wasted</p>
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		<title>By: Joan</title>
		<link>http://www.northescambia.com/2012/06/uwf-approves-tuition-hike-purchase-of-country-club/comment-page-1#comment-131339</link>
		<dc:creator>Joan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is infuriating to me.  I worked hard and saved my money So I could go back to grad school now I am looking at a 15% tuition hike .  So uwf can buy a golf course and have a football team.  In addition uwf staff is going around town talking about some hair brained idea about some kind of historical district around the 28 buildings they own downtown.

Here is my solution
National search for REAL uwf pres not a puppet (was there even a competition for her job

Do not buy golf course and sell buildings downtown

Fire 50% of uwf staff and make the remaing WORK

Untenure lazy professors who do not update materially, i.e. teach by power point.  Let there be competition and the results will be better teachers for less money

Once above is done LOWER TUITION

Can you tell I am mad</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is infuriating to me.  I worked hard and saved my money So I could go back to grad school now I am looking at a 15% tuition hike .  So uwf can buy a golf course and have a football team.  In addition uwf staff is going around town talking about some hair brained idea about some kind of historical district around the 28 buildings they own downtown.</p>
<p>Here is my solution<br />
National search for REAL uwf pres not a puppet (was there even a competition for her job</p>
<p>Do not buy golf course and sell buildings downtown</p>
<p>Fire 50% of uwf staff and make the remaing WORK</p>
<p>Untenure lazy professors who do not update materially, i.e. teach by power point.  Let there be competition and the results will be better teachers for less money</p>
<p>Once above is done LOWER TUITION</p>
<p>Can you tell I am mad</p>
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		<title>By: Jane</title>
		<link>http://www.northescambia.com/2012/06/uwf-approves-tuition-hike-purchase-of-country-club/comment-page-1#comment-131319</link>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2012 11:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>UWF was a good college, with reasonable tuition. Now only people with money will send their kids there. So the college will not be serving our community, instead it will be run as a business. If you have to pay higher tuition then you may as well go to a more well-known college. I&#039;m disappointed in UWF and the people who run it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>UWF was a good college, with reasonable tuition. Now only people with money will send their kids there. So the college will not be serving our community, instead it will be run as a business. If you have to pay higher tuition then you may as well go to a more well-known college. I&#8217;m disappointed in UWF and the people who run it.</p>
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		<title>By: bob hudson</title>
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		<dc:creator>bob hudson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>stupid is  buying some thing you do not need and passing it on for others to pay for it By the way what does football teams, and golf courses and maritime parks have to do with education?I would cut their funding to if this is how they choose to spend it.Face it, they want a preppy school. They are taking what use to be a good college and driving it in the ground.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>stupid is  buying some thing you do not need and passing it on for others to pay for it By the way what does football teams, and golf courses and maritime parks have to do with education?I would cut their funding to if this is how they choose to spend it.Face it, they want a preppy school. They are taking what use to be a good college and driving it in the ground.</p>
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		<title>By: Betty McAlpin</title>
		<link>http://www.northescambia.com/2012/06/uwf-approves-tuition-hike-purchase-of-country-club/comment-page-1#comment-131277</link>
		<dc:creator>Betty McAlpin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Maybe you should direct your outrage towards Governor Scott and the legislature who have slashed higher education funding to the bone over the past two years. The only option given the schools in the Florida SUS is a 15% tution increase, every school in the system has done so in order to survive.

BEI is an independent non-profit business entity affiliated with UWF. BEI bought Scenic Hills, not UWF. The money came from a $1.1 million bank loan and $1.1 million in funds generated by vendor contracts held by BEI for food services at UWF. Profits from all BEI holdings including Scenic Hills have an 80-20 spilt with 80 percent going to UWF and 20 per cent kept by BEI for future growth.

Not one penny of tution money went into the Scenic Hills purchase. The reason UWF partnered with BEI was to develop cash flow to replace the massive budget cuts from Tallahassee. I find it hysterical and very hypocritical that those who are most critical of UWF are Tea Party Republicans who decry tax supported institutions. UWF, instead of crying over the lost revenue, has entered into the capatalist system in order to make their own money.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe you should direct your outrage towards Governor Scott and the legislature who have slashed higher education funding to the bone over the past two years. The only option given the schools in the Florida SUS is a 15% tution increase, every school in the system has done so in order to survive.</p>
<p>BEI is an independent non-profit business entity affiliated with UWF. BEI bought Scenic Hills, not UWF. The money came from a $1.1 million bank loan and $1.1 million in funds generated by vendor contracts held by BEI for food services at UWF. Profits from all BEI holdings including Scenic Hills have an 80-20 spilt with 80 percent going to UWF and 20 per cent kept by BEI for future growth.</p>
<p>Not one penny of tution money went into the Scenic Hills purchase. The reason UWF partnered with BEI was to develop cash flow to replace the massive budget cuts from Tallahassee. I find it hysterical and very hypocritical that those who are most critical of UWF are Tea Party Republicans who decry tax supported institutions. UWF, instead of crying over the lost revenue, has entered into the capatalist system in order to make their own money.</p>
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		<title>By: Rob</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Seems very strange... 

its like no one even considered that maybe instead of raising tuition that they should not buy the golf course 

it is very odd to see both of these in the same article, &quot;state funding is cut 12 million to UWF, so they are having to hike tuition, but the purchase of a golf course is approved&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seems very strange&#8230; </p>
<p>its like no one even considered that maybe instead of raising tuition that they should not buy the golf course </p>
<p>it is very odd to see both of these in the same article, &#8220;state funding is cut 12 million to UWF, so they are having to hike tuition, but the purchase of a golf course is approved&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: JW</title>
		<link>http://www.northescambia.com/2012/06/uwf-approves-tuition-hike-purchase-of-country-club/comment-page-1#comment-131261</link>
		<dc:creator>JW</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How about not buy the SH Country Club and lower tuition rates or keep them the same! I am assuming they different &quot;colors&quot; of money, out of different pots?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How about not buy the SH Country Club and lower tuition rates or keep them the same! I am assuming they different &#8220;colors&#8221; of money, out of different pots?</p>
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		<title>By: pj</title>
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		<dc:creator>pj</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Let me get this straight, bottom line, UWF is increasing tuition because money is tight, but buying a golf course. Why? Seems insane to me!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let me get this straight, bottom line, UWF is increasing tuition because money is tight, but buying a golf course. Why? Seems insane to me!</p>
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		<title>By: Audrey</title>
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		<dc:creator>Audrey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Students that qualify for the top bright futures used to get a full ride scholarship.  With the increase in tutition, the &quot;full&quot; bright futures is not even paying 50% of tuition now.  How sad.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Students that qualify for the top bright futures used to get a full ride scholarship.  With the increase in tutition, the &#8220;full&#8221; bright futures is not even paying 50% of tuition now.  How sad.</p>
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