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State lawmakers are continuing their search for ways to improve STEM education. STEM is an acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Today the presidents of UCF and USF told the House Education Committee how to improve STEM at their schools. Last week the committee heard a plan to charge more for STEM degrees in order to hire better professors. USF president Judy Genshaft says it’s a decent idea as long as low income students aren’t priced out of those degrees.

“If they could make some accommodation for those students then that is fine with me. We just have to be careful for those who are on Pell Grants,” said Genshaft.

UCF’s president John Hitt told committee members one way to encourage more students to pursue STEM degrees is to make Bright Futures pay more to students taking those classes.