Technology is a new expense for universities.
The Board of Regents, the 14-member panel that oversees Florida's public universities, approved plans for the fee during the summer. The Legislature will debate the fee next spring. In the meantime, it is the administrators' job to determine how they would spend the fee that many predict the Legislature will approve. But there are plenty of variables. UF's method for collecting the fee, coupled with other factors, will decide how UF spends revenues from the charge, Capaldi said.