The State University System of Florida announced plans to terminate 18 academic programs and suspend eight more following a productivity review of degree completions over three years. The system identified 214 underperforming programs based on low graduate counts and will consolidate or continue most others, officials said. The majority of flagged programs are in liberal arts, education and sciences, including ethnic studies and foreign languages. Florida’s approach—using graduate-output thresholds to force program pruning—is part of a growing wave of state-level productivity reviews that directly affect faculty lines, curricular planning, and enrollment strategy. Provosts and deans nationwide should monitor how state accountability metrics move from review to program elimination and prepare contingency plans for affected students and faculty.