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[ NNSquad ] [IP] U of Florida drops plan to shift CS faculty from research to teaching
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dan Updegrove <updegrove@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 7:51 AM Subject: U of Florida drops plan to shift CS faculty from research to teaching To: Dave Farber <DAVE@farber.net> Dave, Good news from U of Florida, as reported in today's Chronicle of Higher Education. U. of Florida Dean Drops Plan to Shift Faculty Focus From Research to Teaching April 26, 2012, 11:28 am Facing a backlash from students and faculty members, a University of Florida dean has backed away from her plan to shift the focus of a computer-science department from research to teaching. Cammy R. Abernathy, dean of the College of Engineering, this month proposed eliminating<http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-Florida-Dean-Proposes/131606/> the department’s graduate teaching assistants and research support staff as a cost-saving measure. The plan would have reassigned tenured and tenure-track faculty to focus solely on teaching. But on Wednesday, citing an “overwhelming negative response” to the proposal, the university’s president, J. Bernard Machen, said in a written statement<http://news.ufl.edu/2012/04/25/machen-budget-statement/> that it had dropped Ms. Abernathy’s plan. Mr. Machen said that two department chairs in the college were working on an alternative strategy to deal with cuts in state funds. http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/u-of-florida-dean-drops-plan-to-shift-faculty-focus-from-research-to-teaching/42748 Best regards, ~ Dan Dan Updegrove Consultant on IT in Higher Education Austin, Texas http://web.me.com/danupdegrove/ (512) 331-5098 (512) 423-7785 cell
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