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University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department
DustyShadow writes "The University of Florida announced this past week that it was dropping its computer science department, which will allow it to save about $1.7 million. The school is eliminating all funding for teaching assistants in computer science, cutting the graduate and research programs entirely, and moving the tattered remnants into other departments. Students at UF have already organized protests, and have created a website dedicated to saving the CS department. Several distinguished computer scientists have written to the president of UF to express their concerns, in very blunt terms. Prof. Zvi Galil, Dean of Computing at Georgia Tech, is 'amazed, shocked, and angered.' Prof. S.N. Maheshwari, former Dean of Engineering at IIT Delhi, calls this move 'outrageously wrong.' Computer scientist Carl de Boor, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and winner of the 2003 National Medal of Science, asked the UF president 'What were you thinking?'"
>>>Who the fuck cares if it makes money - it's a STATE UNIVERSITY not a CORPORATION. It doesn't have to "make money".
Just because something is part of the government does not mean it should be a sinkhole to swallow taxpayer dollars. Like Amtrak or the Post office, the state universities compete on an open market against other businesses for customer dollars. As we've learned from Darwin, competition weeds-out the bad and inefficient, leaving behind the well-adapted.
My AC stalker: " I personally agree with your posts most of the time, but that won't keep me from modding you troll"
That's really mangling language.
If the majority lose money, then, pretty much by definition, many do not make money. Some, or a few make money. Not many.
Check your premises.