The State University System of Florida plans to eliminate at least 18 academic programs and suspend eight more after a systemwide productivity review identified 214 underperforming programs, officials told lawmakers. The review targeted degrees that produced few graduates over three years, with most proposed cuts concentrated in liberal arts, education and sciences, including ethnic studies, foreign languages and some social sciences. System officials said the moves follow a long-running program productivity process intended to reallocate resources toward higher-demand fields. University leaders will consolidate roughly 30 programs and continue about 150 flagged offerings, but a tranche of suspensions will stop new enrollments while curricula are revised or wound down. For faculty governance and regional employers, the cuts raise questions about curricular breadth, transfer pathways and workforce pipelines. Trustees and academic leaders will need to balance fiscal stewardship against program diversity and institutional missions.