$118.96

The new cost of tuition per credit hour, up 6 percent from last year. The average student takes 12 credits to be full-time, which will cost $1,427.52 a semester.

$324,937.76

FAU President Frank Brogan’s yearly salary, which is not being cut , could afford to pay the tuition for 227 full-time students.

$578,406.00

The amount being cut from the Wilkes Honors College at the Jupiter campus. With the cut comes the elimination of faculty positions, scholarship funding and research support for faculty.

$6,960,314.00

The initial cut to the university’s Education and General Operating Budget, approved by FAU on Aug. 28, 2007.

$29,909,036.00*

The total amount of state budget reductions FAU has incurred from July 1, 1991 to June 30, 2007. FAU is cutting $9.6 million this year alone. That’s more than 32 percent of the 16-year total cuts.

*This number may not include budget increases over the same time period.

Source: Proposed 2008-2009 FAU Operating Budget Reductions

Paying for FAU Athletics

Source: FAU Athletics

FAU athletics are funded by student athletic fees – a $13.75-per-credit-hour charge that all students pay in their tuition – plus funding from sports advertising, donations and fundraising.