Ray Rodrigues, chancellor of the State University System of Florida, also gave remarks,\u00a0emphasizing\u00a0FSU\u2019s rankings,\u00a0enrollment\u00a0and research expenditures.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur state is the number one in the nation for higher education, and the reason for that is that ranking is based on objective data \u2014 and only objective data,\u201d\u00a0Rodrigues\u00a0said.\u00a0\u201cThe performance of flagships like Florida State University plays\u00a0a large role\u00a0in why our state has the success that we have in the rankings.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rodrigues likened FSU\u2019s student retention rates to those of elite private Ivy League institutions, noting that the university received over 88,000 applications for about 6,000 available seats. He further commended the university for increasing\u00a0research\u00a0expenditures\u00a0by\u00a050% since 2021, truly putting the \u201cresearch\u201d in research university.<\/p>\n
To conclude the program, FSU fans\u00a0cheered\u00a0as the Women\u2019s Soccer team brought their 2025 NCAA Championship trophy to the Capitol steps.\u00a0McCullough praised the\u00a0program for reaching\u00a0\u201cdynasty\u201d status\u00a0after\u00a0they\u00a0won\u00a0their fifth national title last month\u00a0and second under Coach Brian Pensky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ray Rodrigues, chancellor of the State University System of Florida, also gave remarks,\u00a0emphasizing\u00a0FSU\u2019s rankings,\u00a0enrollment\u00a0and research expenditures. \u201cOur state…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[63042,64179,232,234,233,8218],"class_list":["post-130169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-fsu-175","tag-fsu-day-at-the-capitol","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-womens-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}