UF President Ben Sasse described an early framework of UF’s new strategic plan in faculty-only presentations across UF’s colleges last week. The presentation was summarized by attendees who spoke anonymously to The Alligator because they feared repercussions from disclosing details of the president's remarks. Sasse discussed adjusting student tuition costs, reducing the total number of academic departments, eliminating "quiet-retired" faculty and restructuring the delivery of education, a professor said. “Sasse predicted that low tuition costs, which are heavily subsidized by the Legislature's appropriations that include lucrative Bright Futures scholarships for many students, can't continue,” one professor wrote.
