There has to be more behind the move. The leadership of alll universities tend to be politically astute when it comes to dealing with state governments. I'm thinking that the school administration is trying to do something that will attract attention to impact of the huge budget cuts (30% over 6 yrs.) being enacted by the state legislators. In this case, it looks like they succeeded. Let the public relations battle begin.
Yeah it does seem strange to on the one hand to close Computer Science at UF the flagship university for Florida Public Colleges...and at the same time open up Florida Polytechnic University. Politics.
Politics....Rick Scott politics: http://pushingrope.blogspot.com/2012/04/polytechnic-is-about-crony-capitalism.html The high speed rail add-on discussion in the article is an example also of Scott's pathetic ethics. I thought he proved in the medicare fraud years ago that he has no ethics....but hey....he's a Republican so let's re-elect the asshole.
Nobody in this state can figure this **** out....except to call it what it is....a bunch of ****. The facts, to summarize, are that Scott has green lighted the creation of Florida’s 12th independent state university to appease the budget committee chairman, while simultaneously cutting $300 million from the budgets of the state’s 11 already established universities. As a consequence, UF’s leadership decided to hold a fire sale at the computer and information science department — a department that has for many years been capably providing precisely the technology-focused education that Scott claims the new university will provide. Meanwhile in Tampa, the University of South Florida is struggling with how to overcome its portion of the $300 million cut, while down the road in Lakeland a new university is formed with state funding that could be used to fortify an already crowded field of state schools, including USF." ...I'll bet more than a few of you wise ol Skyboxers think all of this is a grand idea resplendent with all of the honest integrity that all GOP politicians are blessed with.....like Rick Scott. ..... :roll: Meanwhile Scott's own pro-Rick Scott website touts how he has "traveled the state" for months and "listened" to parents, teachers, etc. and as a result is allotting an "additional" 1 billion dollars to the new state K-12 budget because he is such a man of education.....this coming after he led a 1.3 billion budget cut in K-12 last year....so only a net cut of .3 billion. What a guy......
Scott got the law passed that all welfare recipients must be drug tested, right? You never commented on that......
Inherently I think that's a good idea but the skit where Steve Colbert interviewed a real Florida politician that was instrumental on that bill...was hilarious when Colbert insisted the pol should pee in a cup before he gets his paycheck because.....like the welfare recipients.....the pol get's paid by taxpayer money. :wink: :lol: