While the University became the first public institution in Florida to offer a non-resident tuition waiver to undocumented students during Fall 2013, SB 1400 makes this policy a statewide standard as of July 1, 2014.
“What the state legislature provided was two types of increases: An across-the-board $1,400 increase for anyone who makes $40,000 or less, or $1,000 if one earns more than $40,000,” said Cuesta-Gomez, director of Employee and Labor Relations. “The other is a bonus that’s [going] to be paid in June 2014 and that is a merit bonus.“
Residential Life is the least supervised and most isolated department at FIU. I think it is due to the inherent structure built on the need to satisfy appearances and juggle liabilities. It has become the department where the least amount of necessary information goes up the ladder of superiors. The current Housing and Residential Life department is now lacking in spirit, progression and dynamic.
