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University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department

Posted by timothy on from the gator-fans-on-the-line dept.

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?'"

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  1. No problem! by Vinegar+Joe · · Score: 1, Troll

    They'll still have football, right? Good to see they've got their priorities straight.

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    "The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
  2. Meanwhile... by MikeRT · · Score: -1, Troll

    From their list of majors...

    American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Film and Media Studies, Golf and Sports Turf Management, Information Systems, International Studies, Marketing, Modern European Studies, Public Relations, Recreation, Parks and Tourism, Religion (this is why we have seminaries!), Sociology and Women's Studies are all still there.

    There are also three music degrees: Music Education and either a B.A. in Music or a "Bachelors of Music" in Music. Similarly, Art is broken down into three or four majors instead of 3 or 4 concentrations.

    What we need is a tax payer revolt in Florida over all of those useless majors, especially, the grievance mongers like Women's Studies surviving the cut.

  3. Re:"What were you thinking?" by Third+Position · · Score: -1, Troll

    They probably needed the money for really important things, like Women's and gender studies, sociology and African American and Hispanic Studies.

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    American Third Position
    Finally, a real choice!
  4. Gators are STUPID creatures by scharkalvin · · Score: -1, Troll

    More fuel to the fire that FSU is a better school than FS. 'Noles rock! Gators SUCK!