>Now I've seen colleges make stupid moves before - but this one takes the cake.
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>http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2012/04/22/university-of-florida-eliminates-computer-science-department-increases-athletic-budgets-hmm/
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>The school is eliminating all funding for teaching assistants in computer science, cutting the graduate and research programs entirely.
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>Oh and they increased the athletic budget by almost the same amount of money they'll be "saving" by zapping the computer science dept.
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>What kind of idiot came up with this? grrrrrr

Athletics budget is ~$100M, CS budget ~$1.5M

Sounds like the CS program is a joke - the school says it has an enrollment of 50,000: http://www.ufl.edu/about-uf/facts-and-rankings/

Maybe the thinking is, if they can't provide a *good* CS program, don't do it at all.