Subject: [ PFIR ] [IP] U of Florida drops plan to shift CS faculty from
research to teaching
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From: Dan Updegrove <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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-facu
lty-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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