>>>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
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>>Athletics budget is ~$100M, CS budget ~$1.5M
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>>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/
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>>Maybe the thinking is, if they can't provide a *good* CS program, don't do it at all.
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>UF is supposedly the states flagship university - I can't imagine any reason other than pure stupidity that they would eliminate the whole CS program. Perhaps if they spent a little more money on..ummm..education instead of football then they wouldn't have idiots doing things like this to begin with.

Hey, didn't you used to live in FL? Do you, by any chance, have a CS degree from UF? < g >