FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

JIM HORNE

Commissioner of Education

 

  

 

 

 

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

  

 

F. PHILIP HANDY,

Chairman

 

T. WILLARD FAIR,

Vice Chairman

 

 

Members

 

LINDA J. EADS, ED.D.

 

CHARLES PATRICK GARCÍA

 

JULIA L. JOHNSON

 

WILLIAM L. PROCTOR, PH.D.

  

 

December 5, 2003

 

M E M O R A N D U M

 

  

  

  

  

  

 

TO:

  

District School Superintendents

 

  

Public High School Principals

 

FROM:

Debr

a Austin, Chancellor, Division of Colleges and Universities

 

SUBJECT:

State University System Admissions Applications

 

For the past many years the former Florida Board of Regents and the Florida Department of Education have seen to

the yearly printing of State University System (SUS) application forms. Once printed, these forms were mailed

from the printer to all Florida public high schools. In 2002 the Department contracted for the printing of over

750,000 hard-copy admissions forms.

 

The cost of printing and mailing, and, more importantly, the ease of access to SUS and individual university

admissions forms on-line has rendered the practice of centralized printing and hard-copy distribution impractical.

Accordingly, please be advised that the Department of Education will no longer be contracting for the printing of

SUS admissions forms, and printed forms will not be mailed to schools. It will be the responsibility of individual

school districts and schools to advise students of the electronic availability of SUS admissions forms. Individual

districts and schools may readily access admissions forms either through the FACTS.org webpage or via individual

university web pages.

 

I also want to make it clear that this determination does not equate to an end to the capability of submitting

admission applications to SUS institutions in hard-copy form: applications for admission to the State University

System may still be submitted in hard-copy form. Most SUS institutions have a pdf file that can be downloaded and

printed for submission of hard-copy applications. It is the case, however, that application can be made to all SUS

institutions on-line via either FACTS.org or through university web sites. The only procedure that is changing is

that application forms will not be provided centrally.

 

I thank you for your continued support of the state university system and sincerely appreciate your efforts in raising

student achievement in the State of Florida.

 

DA/cnk

 

c:

State University System Presidents

 

State University System Admissions Officers

 

Commissioner Jim Horne

 

Chancellor Jim Warford

 

DIVISION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

 

 

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