2025 Session Priorities

FIU Operational Excellence - $65 Million

The recruitment of leading faculty and researchers
The retention of the faculty and staff that have helped FIU achieve preeminence and our continued success on performance funding
The elevation of the FIU student experience
Continued upgrading of compliance and security infrastructure

FIU HWCOM Clinical Facility - $225 Million (Funded at $100 Million in 2024 Session)

The facility will provide direct health services to the community through partnership with an affiliated local adult hospital system and provide sites for interdisciplinary health science education (medicine, nursing, social work, public health, etc.) as well as health science research for all components of the FIU academic health sciences center.

FIU Health Innovation District - $50 Million

Recruitment of leading faculty will both complement and augment FIU’s academic medical enterprise with Baptist Health South Florida.
Integrating and expanding collaborative and interdisciplinary research and partnerships across FIU, focused on basic health sciences will lead to technological innovations.
Investments in critical start-up equipment and laboratory requirements for new clinical and research faculty will facilitate the expansion and operation of key research facilities and labs.

FIU CAT 6 Initiative - $60 Million

Expand the Engineering Center as a leading applied research park focused on environmental materials testing, energy, and infrastructure lab.
Non-recurring funding to upgrade the Wall of Wind to a Category 6 Hurricane Simulator & Storm Surge-Windstorm Facility
Leverage the Biscayne Bay Campus as a major research hub in Climate Technology, Applied Research, and Environmental Robotics.

Preeminent Funding (Funded at $25 Million in 2024 Session)