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Why a STEM focus is difficult
The first Florida House hearing on higher education budgeting shows part of why it is difficult to have a “STEM focus” in a public college and university system: money woes suck up all the oxygen in a room. In Florida, both the statewide faculty union and administrators have been talking about the need to invest in the […]
Political reporters ignore what’s staring them in the face in Tampa
I have a political-debate hangover this morning–not from alcohol but from being on campus for most of 15 hours yesterday and getting home close to midnight. I was one of several USF faculty in the press room last night for the GOP debate on the USF Tampa campus, along with usual political-reporter go-to at USF, […]
Public policy can override professional judgment, but very cautiously
This afternoon I’ve been in a Twitter exchange with Benjamin Riley over the issue of when public policy can override teacher judgment and how much the current wave of reformy legislation is ignoring teacher judgment. (Or, rather, I’ve been moderately active while he’s been in a much broader Twitter exchange.) I pulled out the obvious […]
On a change at USF Polytechnic
President X may need to leave for the college-community relationship to be what her or his lip service has claimed is the ideal… because the reality of that has to exist on campus, not just in the head of President X. What I wrote a short while ago in Dead administration walking and the higher […]
Florida Universities: The Gathering
So Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos floated an idea for Florida public universities to swap professors and programs like baseball cards (or maybe Magic: The Gathering cards)? I’d been holding off commenting on another trial balloon sent up by Senator J.D. Alexander, the idea of switching USF Polytechnic (a small campus about which much has been discussed this […]