Jessica Palombo

Florida’s public university administrators are celebrating after the legislative session. Lawmakers restored funding they’d lost in the recent past. And, higher ed officials say, things like “preeminent” status for Florida State University and the University of Florida should help keep more Florida high-schoolers in state for college.

People who run Florida’s public universities are breathing a collective sigh of relief after the recent legislative session.

Despite sweeping campaign-finance reform this year, a new scorecard from the National Institute on Money In State Politics gives Florida a D grade for disclosure requirements.  State rankings are based on how well the public can follow non-campaign money spent to elect politicians.

Floridians have four new ways to lodge ethics complaints against public officials. The change came as Gov. Rick Scott signed the final piece of a sweeping ethics reform package on Wednesday.

Scott’s signature opens up new avenues for people to report suspected government corruption. The new law allows the public to complain to law enforcement, U.S. and state attorneys or the governor’s office without their identity becoming public right away.

Selling class notes online is paying off for thousands of college students, and for the Florida State University students who run the study guide marketplace Moolaguides.com. The two-year-old company has buyers and sellers on more than twenty campuses, and the owners expect to bring in half a million dollars this year.

On the Florida State University campus, Moolaguides is a well-known website. A quick survey of students walking near the main parking garage on Wednesday showed 3 out of 4 were familiar with it.