Sandy D'Alemberte on Supreme Court Tuition Ruling: University Funding More Important than Governance

Sandy D'Alemberte, former president of both the American Bar Association and Florida State University, and one of the eight plaintiffs in the landmark case Bob Graham v. Mike Haridopolos, has shared with Sunshine State News his reaction to yesterday's Florida Supreme Court decision, which ruled that it is the Legislature, not the state university system Board of Governors, that has authority to set tuition policy:

"I'm glad to finally have resolution; it is very important to the stability of the [state university] governing system, and until this issue was resolved we were not going to have that kind of stability. What remains for the benefit of the university system is to have adequate funding, and whatever type of governing system we have it is, in my judgment, secondary to that issue of adequate support for higher education."