The Board of Governors works with both the Articulation Coordinating Committee and the Florida Talent Development Council.  

• Articulation Coordinating Committee. The Articulation Coordinating Committee is a K-20 advisory body intended to collaboratively establish and adopt policies with the Board of Governors. The committee makes recommendations related to statewide articulation polices and issues regarding access, quality, and reporting of data maintained by the K-20 Data Warehouse to the Board of Governors. The committee consists of two members each representing the State University System, the Florida College System, public career and technical education, K-12 education, and nonpublic postsecondary education, and one member representing students. The chair is elected from the membership.  
• Florida Talent Development Council. The purpose of the council is to develop a coordinated, data-driven statewide approach to meeting Florida’s needs for a 21st century workforce that employers and educators use as part of Florida’s talent supply system. Membership of the council is established in Florida statute and includes one member of the Board of Governors.

The Board uses the Performance Based Funding model to allocate funds based on 10 metrics that evaluate the institutions on a range of issues. These metrics were chosen after reviewing over 40 metrics identified in the Accountability Plans.

The model has four guiding principles:

1. Use metrics that align with State University System Strategic Plan goals.
2. Reward Excellence (achieving SUS goals) or Improvement (making progress towards SUS goals).
3. Have a few clear, simple metrics.
4. Acknowledge the unique mission of the different institutions.

The model has four key components:

1. Institutions will be evaluated on either Excellence or Improvement for each metric.
2. Data is based on one-year data.
3. The benchmarks for Excellence were based on the Board of Governors 2025 System Strategic Plan goals and analysis of relevant data trends, whereas the benchmarks for Improvement were determined after reviewing data trends for each metric.
4. The Florida Legislature and Governor determine the amount of new state funding and an amount of institutional funding that would come from each university’s recurring state base appropriation.

The first nine metrics in the model are as follows:

1. Percent of Bachelor's Graduates Employed (Earning $30,000+) or Continuing Their Education
2. Median Wages of Bachelor’s Graduates Employed Full-time
3. Average Cost to the Student (Net Tuition per 120 Credit Hours)
4. Four Year Graduation Rate (Full-time students in college for the first time)
5. Academic Progress Rate (2nd Year Retention with GPA Above 2.0)
6. Bachelor's Degrees Awarded in Programs of Strategic Emphasis
7. University Access Rate (Percent of Undergraduates with a Pell Grant)
8. New College and Florida Polytechnic University only: Freshman in Top 10% of Graduating High School Class; All other universities: Graduate Degrees Awarded in Areas of Strategic Emphasis
9. Two-Year Graduation Rate for FCS Associate in Arts Transfer Students plus either Academic Progress Rate for 2nd Year Retention for FTIC (first time in college students) with a Pell Grant (Florida Polytechnic University only) or Six-Year Graduation Rate for Students Who Are Awarded a Pell Grant in Their First Year (all other universities)

For the tenth metric, the Board of Trustees of each university chooses a metric from the remaining metrics in the Accountability Plans that are applicable to the mission of that university.

The amount of the state investment appropriated by the Legislature and Governor for performance funding will be matched by an amount reallocated from the university system base budget. These institutional base funds are the cumulative recurring state appropriations that the Legislature has appropriated to each institution.

Each university metric is evaluated based on Excellence or Improvement and has ten benchmarks ranging from low to high. The lowest benchmark receives one point, while the highest receives ten points. On a 100-point scale, a threshold of 60 points is established as the minimum number of total points needed to be eligible for the institutional investment. Any institution that fails to meet the minimum point threshold for the institutional investment must submit an improvement plan to the Board.

Institutions with the top three scores are eligible for their proportional amount of the state’s investment. All State University System institutions with a score the same or higher as the previous year are eligible for their proportional amount of the state’s investment. Any institution with a score less than the previous year but whose previous year’s score was the same as the year before or higher is eligible for its proportional amount of the state’s investment. Any institution with a score the same or lower than the previous year’s score for two consecutive years must submit a student success plan to the Board.

Other Reports

Board of Governors - Office of Inspector General's Internal Audit Activity - For the Review Period July 2018 Through June 2019, Auditor General Report No. 2020-032 September 2019.

The Auditor General reports on university operations are available on its website.

Expenditure Analysis Reports, State University System

Operating Budget Reports, State University System

Websites of Interest

State University System, Accountability Plans
State University System, University Fact Books
State University System, Interactive University Data
State University System, Strategic Plan (Amended October 2019)

Performance Information

Performance measures and standards for universities may be found in the Board of Governors' strategic plan and accountability reports.

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