Bad budgets are old news in the Sunshine State. While colleges across the nation are coping with the recession, public universities in Florida, a state with finances that resemble a Ponzi scheme, have spent years doing without.
Ask Paul Outka, an assistant professor in Florida State University’s highly regarded English department. But don’t call him on his office phone this fall. He won’t have one anymore â?? it’s among the latest victims of cost-cutting.