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In 1951-52, Florida had 3 state universitiesthe University or Florida at
Gainesville, and Florida State University and Florida Agricultural and Mechanical
University at Tallahassee. 18,193 students were enrolled in the Fall ten of that
year.
Ten years later, we had a state institutions of higher learning, having added
the brand new University of South Florida at Tampa, which opened its doors in 1960.
Enrolled in the Fall of 1961-62 were 29,219 students in these four state universities,
an increase or 611 over the enrollment of ten years before. This w Fall over
30,600 individuals were enrolled. Included in this nunber were 227 medical students,
studying and working toward )1.D. Degrees at the J. Hillis Miller Health Center, a
new institution in itself, located at the University or Florida at Gainesville.
what does it cost to build a brand new h~year university like the University
of South Florida, or a complete Health Center and Teaching Hospital, as we have done
at Uainesville? is of this date $11,83h,260 or your tax mney has gone into buildings
and equipaent at the University of South Florida, and we are still building there.
The Health Center required almost $17 nillion to construct and equip. These facilities
delight the eye of all Floridians win View them. They are sung the lost useful and
productive capital investments that man can make, but the building thereof is just
the beginning. The operation of the Health Center, with its Teaching Hospital and
b CollegesMedicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Health Related Services, requires an
appropriation of over $5 million each Ear from the General Revenue Fund of the State,
in addition to collections from patients in the hospital and fees tron students in
attendance. The University of South Florida takes its hth entering class next Fall
and will further expand the following year (1961.) to a total of well Over 5,000
students. Appropriations for its operation will exceed $5 million in that year.
These are Just two of the more dranatic of a mmher of advances in higher education
in Florida financed by your tax dollar and line. Our senior institutions, the
University of Florida and Florida State University, have developed graduate program-s
of major significance to us all in this increasingly couples: world. Florida A. & 1!.
University has truly become a university in this ten-year period, as signified by its
formal designation as Florida A. 8: M. University by our legislature, where it was
fomerly Florida A. a M. College. The faculties of all these institutions are
increasingly of top caliber, and the recruiting and continued employment of our
acadenic people has required the appropriation of larger suns for salaries as we
conpete with the great universities of the nation ibr the best brains we can find.
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The average annual salary 1hr s faculty eenher at the University of oride for exqple,
has increased from 85,6. in 1952 to $11,275 in 1962. So we ere providing in Florida
for the higher education of many new are young people and older folks, too, who
find it important to return for turther developentend the cost of educeting 3951;
student costs eoremre tor his proteseors' salsriee, are for the scientific equip-
eent of today's world, and sore for classroom and 1eboratory buildings. Operating
appropriation! i'or the Universities, including our Agricultural ned-em Stations and
Extension service, totalled 817 nillion, from the State General Fund for 1951-52;
for 1961-62 they wanted to almet $112 million. Thi- ia the price of higher education.
But we can't atop here. In Sept.qu 1961; our 5th stete university will open its
(bars to its first students. 2,000 Juniore and seniors are expected to enroll at
Florida Atlantic University, now under construction at bee Baton. This is a new and
imaginative venture in higher educationen institution planned around the letest
techniques or leaming, utilizing television and learning machines and expecting Inch
independent study end intellectual neturity on the part of the studenthut are or
that at another time.
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The average enmial salary for a faculty miember at the University of Florida for example, hee increased frosii $5,6% in 1952 to $11,275 in 1962. 30--. we are providing in Florida for the higher education of many ntany more young people -and older folks too, who find it im]'ortant to return for further developinent-and the cost of educattag eaeb student coats pere--m:ire for his professarsi salaries, mre for the scientific equipment of today's nir)d, and nere for classroomi and laboratory buildings. Operating appropriations for the Universities including our Agricultural Experiment Stations and Estension Servies, totalled $17 million, from the State Gerieral Fund for 1951-52; ihr 1961-62 they amounted to almost S42 million. This is the price of higher education But we cau't step here. In Septentier 1966 aur 5th state university wili open its doors a it.s first. students. 2,000 juniors and seniors are expected to ennill et Florida Atlaritic University, now under construction at Baca Rakn, This is a neir and imaginative venture in higher education-an institution planned around the latest techniques of learning, utilizing television and learning machines and expecting much independent study and intellectual maturity on the part of the student--but ilere of that at another t.ime.
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