TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Florida's university presidents are planning to ask the state Legislature for a technology fee in case a tuition-hike proposal fails.
The presidents agreed to seek the tech fee at a meeting in Sarasota, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Thursday.
The tuition and fee plan would call for the Legislature to limit the total amount for undergraduate students, but it gives each university discretion over how it is to be used.
Under that plan a university might be able to designate that part of the total as a tech fee.
But if that idea is shot down, the university presidents will seek the tech fee separately.
No amount has yet been set, but the presidents said they want students to be able to work with the latest equipment so they can increase their employability as well as their education.
"There's no way that we can address the need to educate our students in that area without a dedicated source of funding," said University of West Florida President John Cavanaugh.
