The outcome of this process is obviously a competitive and well-founded Graduate School. Before a quality final product can be produced by the university's assets, a commitment of financial investment must be made to nurture and protect our assets. Graduate students lack the ability to manage its financial affairs because its body's funds are pooled with those of the undergraduates, the distributors of student's financial resources. Graduate students need a pool of funds that is independent of undergraduates since graduate student's needs differ markedly from those of the undergraduates. Possible uses of the graduate student pool are to promote the exposure of graduate student's work at local, regional, national, and international conferences.
Graduate students know what graduate students' needs are.
As such, they need the financial independence necessary to address those needs. The current system of pooled resources militates against this financial independence. In the committee's eyes, this undermines the academic and professional objectives of the University of Florida's graduate student body. The committee believes that the procurement of affordable health insurance for the assets of the university should be an urgent priority. If the welfare of the University of Florida's Graduate School depends heavily on the success and quality of work that its students produce, then it is only logical that the Graduate School should be willing to invest in the welfare of these assets.