After postponing a vote in September on whether to allow increases in freshman enrollment, the Board of Governors is set to vote on the matter at its meeting in Tallahassee today.
In July 2007, the board voted to freeze the number of freshmen enrolled in the state's 11 public universities, which was about 38,500 at the time.
Today, the board - the State University System's highest governing body - will consider whether to maintain the freeze.
Bill Edmonds, the board's spokesman, said the reason the freeze was initiated was because universities increased the number of freshmen they accepted each year even though state funds did not support their tuition.
At the time the board voted to freeze freshman enrollment, 5,627 students in the system were not covered by state funds, according to meeting materials.
Edmonds said the board's decision would not affect transfer students.
He said the board will also discuss its role in the selection of university presidents. A university's Board of Trustees selects a president, but a proposed regulation would mandate that the candidate be submitted for approval by the Board of Governors.
Edmonds said the board already vets the candidates informally, and the new regulation would simply formalize the procedure. The proposed regulation also states that when a university's Board of Trustees conducts an evaluation of their president, it should seek input from the Board of Governors.
