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Florida was a pioneer in having community colleges offer four-year degree programs (and having them drop "community" from their names). Now, some legislators are raising questions about whether the four-year programs overlap too much with offerings of the state university system, Miami Today reported. College leaders defend the programs, saying that they meet key education needs in their local communities, and that state universities don't have capacity for all of the students But Joe Negron, chair of the Florida Senate Appropriations Committee, said his concern was the impact on university budgets and aspirations. “I think we have great universities, but I want to see them get to an elite level, where we have universities in Florida that are thought of with the University of Virginia, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill [and the] University of Michigan,” he said. “And we can’t do that if we have two systems that are overlapping."
