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University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department
Forbes ^ | April 22, 2012 | Steven Salzberg

Posted on 04/24/2012 12:47:46 PM PDT by C19fan

Wow, no one saw this coming. 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 $1.4 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: computer; education; florida
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Here are useless majors one can take at UF:

American Indian and Indigenous Studies Dance, Bachelor of Arts Family, Youth and Community Sciences Film and Media Studies Golf and Sports Turf Management Sustainability and the Built Environment Sustainability Studies Women's Studies

Minors:

African-American Studies Landscape Architecture

UF has a Multicultural & Diversity Affairs department.

UF could of not saved the same amount by cutting these useless majors and administrators instead choose one of the few fields where students can actually get a decent job.

1 posted on 04/24/2012 12:47:51 PM PDT by C19fan
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UF could of not saved the same amount

Huh?

2 posted on 04/24/2012 12:49:33 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: C19fan

Silly computers, who needs them?


3 posted on 04/24/2012 12:49:59 PM PDT by Third Person
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Gotta have choices of majors for the football and basketball teams, ya know.


4 posted on 04/24/2012 12:51:53 PM PDT by crosshairs (As long as there is evil, "Coexist" is impossible.)
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"Sports Turf Management Sustainability"

That's where Carl Spackler got his doctorate.

5 posted on 04/24/2012 12:53:14 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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Computers???? This is what the marketplace is DEMANDING:

1. “The Phallus”
Occidental College. A seminar in critical theory and social justice, this class examines Sigmund Freud, phallologocentrism and the lesbian phallus.

2. “Queer Musicology”
UCLA. This course welcomes students from all disciplines to study what it calls an “unruly discourse” on the subject, understood through the works of Cole Porter, Pussy Tourette and John Cage.

3. “Taking Marx Seriously”
Amherst College. This advanced seminar for 15 students examines whether Karl Marx still matters despite the countless interpretations and applications of his ideas, or whether the world has entered a post-Marxist era.

4. “Adultery Novel”
University of Pennsylvania. Falling in the newly named “gender, culture and society” major, this course examines novels and films of adultery such as “Madame Bovary” and “The Graduate” through Marxist, Freudian and feminist lenses.

5. “Blackness”
Occidental College. Critical race theory and the idea of “post-blackness” are among the topics covered in this seminar course examining racial identity. A course on whiteness is a prerequisite.

6. “Border Crossings, Borderlands: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Immigration”
University of Washington. This women studies department offering takes a new look at recent immigration debates in the U.S., integrating questions of race and gender while also looking at the role of the war on terror.

7. “Whiteness: The Other Side of Racism”
Mount Holyoke College. The educational studies department offers this first-year, writing-intensive seminar asking whether whiteness is “an identity, an ideology, a racialized social system,” and how it relates to racism.

8. “Native American Feminisms”
University of Michigan. The women’s studies and American culture departments offer this course on contemporary Native American feminism, including its development and its relation to struggles for land.

9. “’Mail Order Brides?’ Understanding the Philippines in Southeast Asian Context”
Johns Hopkins University. This history course — cross-listed with anthropology, political science and studies of women, gender and sexuality — is limited to 35 students and asks for an anthropology course as a prerequisite.

10. “Cyberfeminism”
Cornell University. Cornell’s art history department offers this seminar looking at art produced under the influence of feminism, post-feminism and the Internet.

11. “American Dreams/American Realities”
Duke University. Part of Duke’s Hart Leadership Program that prepares students for public service, this history course looks at American myths, from “city on the hill” to “foreign devil,” in shaping American history.

12. “Nonviolent Responses to Terrorism”
Swarthmore College. Swarthmore’s “peace and conflict studies” program offers this course that “will deconstruct ‘terrorism’ “ and “study the dynamics of cultural marginalization” while seeking alternatives to violence.


6 posted on 04/24/2012 12:53:33 PM PDT by I cannot think of a name (NE)
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What is wrong with Landscape Architecture? It is not a crip course.


7 posted on 04/24/2012 12:55:52 PM PDT by Perdogg
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What a stupid choice. It would be better to drop women’s studies, minority studies, black studies, gender studies......good grief these people are idiots.


8 posted on 04/24/2012 12:57:11 PM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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There’s more to the story than meets the eye:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danbigman/2012/04/23/university-of-florida-responds-to-post-about-plans-for-computer-science-department/


9 posted on 04/24/2012 12:58:36 PM PDT by samtheman ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ-4gnNz0vc)
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Sooooooo Basket weaving 101 is what the student loans zer0 will mandate for free will pay for


10 posted on 04/24/2012 1:01:52 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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I wonder what’s going to happen to all the CS majors at that college.

I’m in CS at SFA and i think I can only transfer 60 hours to another school. I’d lose over a year of classes.

The coursework is pretty difficult and some of my classes have maybe 6 kids.


11 posted on 04/24/2012 1:08:55 PM PDT by Ainast
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To: C19fan; All

READ THIS :

http://www.flanews.com/?p=14974

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Forbes Got UF Story Wrong Says Scott
April 24th, 2012 by Mike Vasilinda

Several national news outlets have printed that the University of Florida is cutting its computer science program to the bone while increasing athletic funding.

Athletic funding is going up, but is funded with private donation, and the computer science program is losing graduate teaching assistants, but students, according to the governor, will actually end up with the same number of classes and better teachers in the classroom

“My understanding of that is that they were saving the money by doing the right thing and that is they were having professors teach more classes. The savings was with teaching assistants” says Scott.


12 posted on 04/24/2012 1:08:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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I wonder what’s going to happen to all the CS majors at that college.

I’m in CS at SFA and i think I can only transfer 60 hours to another school. I’d lose over a year of classes.

The coursework is pretty difficult and some of my classes have maybe 6 kids.


13 posted on 04/24/2012 1:09:05 PM PDT by Ainast
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There’s more to the story than meets the eye:

Great catch Sam.

The weinies are just bitching because their precious tenure system is being tweaked and some fats cats will have to get off their fat asses and teach some unwashed undergrads.

Typical libs screaming about "budget cuts".

14 posted on 04/24/2012 1:09:50 PM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorists savages.)
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Sheesh.. dumb move. Oh well, my alma mater, University of Central Florida (UCF), has a dandy top notch Computer Science Dept.


15 posted on 04/24/2012 1:11:32 PM PDT by Craigon
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To: svcw

I lump all those into the general category of “grievance studies”.

BTW, you should have seen the heads of my libinlaws explode when I used the term... heheh.


16 posted on 04/24/2012 1:11:39 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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UF is recognized around the world for its turf management program. With the number of golf courses in Florida, it’s no surprise they’re considered the #1 Florida college.


17 posted on 04/24/2012 1:11:39 PM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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A Forbes article by contributing writer Steven Salzberg falsely claims that the University of Florida is eliminating the Computer Science Department....The plan calls for no lay-offs of tenure-track faculty. Faculty lay-offs are expected, however, if across-the-board cuts are made in the College of Engineering.

Huh? "The article is false! We're not threatening eliminating CS! We're threatening across the board cuts all across the Engineering School if they don't cut the number of TA's in CS!"

You money or yer life!

18 posted on 04/24/2012 1:12:15 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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Maybe the vast majority of UF freshmen are too intellectually challenged to work with computers.


19 posted on 04/24/2012 1:12:27 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Some of these profs are being sent to a different department. Others are being pulled off of research to teach.

Basically, it is shutting down the program the way it is currently set up. How many profs will stay?

The real question is why? I think that you will see more and more science and engineering cut to keep costs low and the football program funded.

20 posted on 04/24/2012 1:17:35 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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