Lawmakers suggest making professors teach extra classes to offset a budget shortfall.
But it isn't the only part of the higher education budget eliciting angry yelps. The Senate plan would not reimburse universities who enroll more students than projected. Officials at the University of South Florida, which enrolled an extra 722 students, are hoping lawmakers will consider extenuating circumstances. The problem is the Bright Futures scholarship program, said Kathy Betancourt, USF's chief lobbyist. Because it pays most or all of a student's tuition, the program has made it much harder to estimate how many students will actually enroll, Betancourt said.