FAMU has yet another reason to tell the critics of its dental school proposal (both inside and outside the university) to shut the hell up: Florida Atlantic University is on track to receive a medical school this legislative session.FAU’s request for a College of Medicine received a thumbs-up from a Board of Governors subcommittee last week and is expected to easily win the full body’s approval. Fla. House Majority Leader Adam Hasner (R-Delray Beach) believes the legislature will also vote to authorize the program.
Many FAMU opponents say that the university should be not able to add any new graduate or professional programs, like a dental school, until it raises its six-year graduation rate. However, FAU has firmly rejected such arguments against its own academic ambitions. FAU’s six-year graduation rate (39 percent) is actually lower than FAMU’s (41 percent). Despite that fact, state leaders have still given FAU more graduate programs than FAMU.
In January, FAU’s Board of Trustees voted to end its six-year partnership with the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami. The agreement began as a two-year program and eventually expanded into a four-year program that permitted FAU students to earn UM medical degrees without leaving their Bacon Raton home campus.
According to the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, “FAU will support [its stand-alone medical school] through tuition plus the $12 million in annual state funding it already receives [from the legislature] as part of its UM partnership. FAU plans to charge $21,752 a year for in-state students, down from the $30,000 a year UM charges.” FAU is also preparing to launch a joint M.D./Ph.D. program with the Scripps Kellogg School of Science.
By 2014, the FAU College of Medicine will serve 246 students.
FAU’s progress in building an independent medical school shows that the “raise your six-year graduation rate first” argument is a lame excuse that does not get in the way of universities which want the very best.
Pictured: Boca Raton Community Hospital.
this is some BS. We always have to do more to get our piece of the pie. we will get our pie.
ReplyDeleteFamu always has to fight harder to get our piece of the pie. We are going to take the whole pie.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it's time for Rattlers to take a zero tolerance attitude against all the stupid, double-standard excuses used to try and stop us from expanding our doctoral programs.
ReplyDeleteYou are all RIGHT, however FAMU must raise money to back up it's claims. We cannot be held to a different standard. MONEY TALKS FOREVER & ALWAYS.
ReplyDeleteThis is sad and just like Mississippi!
ReplyDeleteYeah the Florida-Mississippi comparisons are very sad.
ReplyDeleteHere's another fact: the Ole Miss med school isn't in Oxford with the main campus. It's located almost 3 hours away in Jackson.
If that state wants to do mergers, I say merge the Ole Miss med school into Jackson State!
NOW THIS IS THE RATTLER NATION I LOVE! Expose their trifling butts!
ReplyDeleteNow where is the RN article on the FAMU sextape lawsuit being filed against that website, director, and actors? We arent settling for nothing less than $1 million! We have dorms to renovate and jobs to save! HUBBA FAMU!
From wctv:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/87866862.html
The article is not accurate. The actors falsely claim that they are FAMU students and are at FAMU.
I'M glad the admin and BOT arent letting these fools get away with this!
I love the FAMU students, but I left FAMU a few years ago because they could not get something as simple as a paycheck right. When an organization cannot get something as basic as payroll right, they should sit down and shut up about new programs. You have to show some basic competency before taxpayers (legislators) are willing to open up their coffers.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't just payroll... unless things have really changed a LOT... I sympathize with the legislators.
I'm here at FAU and its a lot you'd be surprised about. FAMU doesn't have the luxuries we do to hide things and get the benefit of the doubt. Let alone get found out and not get hanged. I don't need to say more, I'm sure you know more about it than I do. I hope FAMU gets what it wants, its certainly well deserved. Too bad we're the new Mississippi of education. Its like pre-reconstruction here now. Just watch the Florida Channel and observe how they handle business. Poor Florida. And 11:12, what did you do to change anything? If you were paying attention these people have been at war with A&M from the start. They even killed the governor and Sec. of State and Education, you know Mr. Gibbs. Pay attention FLORIDIANS! Do we need another Harriet Beecher Stowe? Calgon! Take me away!
ReplyDeleteHow come they think this is Texas or something? Plenty room for them there. What coffers? Our cards have been maxed out since good 'ol JEB! left with extra pay(shh)! They have historically and systematically impeded FAMU every way possible and thereby ultimately shortchanging it's constituents- Floridians. We should be SOO much better off as a institution and State. Smh Everything is in effect a slush fund for one group of people and their misguided and worshiping followers. They get you to beleive you're one of them and you become the work horse. Proof is in the fact that they have always lived on their parents legacies and riches as well at the expense of the public. The only risk is that we'd actually do something about it this time. I know you smell the funk cuz they're definitely booked over servin' arse to kiss. Pucker up Florida!
ReplyDelete4:24 I am all about FAMU, but after a while you feel like the defense attorney who knows that his client is guilty. You do the best you can, put on your best face, and try to spin the facts the best you can. I finally got tired of the fight and moved on to greener pastures.
ReplyDelete11:12 PM, you left FAMU because you had no choice. You were fired because you were incompetent. If the truth be told, FAMU probably withheld your paycheck because you took off more days from work than you had accrued. Good riddance. Now you're some other employer's problem.
ReplyDeleteSince when is incompetence a fire-able offense at FAMU? Brother.. LOOK AROUND. You are obviously a poser and have never been on campus.
ReplyDeletethat last comment was uncalled for. FAMU people are doing the best that they can with the resources that they have.
ReplyDeleteIt can be frustrating when you feel like your're the only one. I understand where you're comin from and I hope you can join us again soon. We need our students to be exposed by you but you can't let them see you quit. Someone has to be there with the broad shoulders for the next group. Legacies are hard to uphold.
ReplyDeleteWorst to first needs to include the post secondary institutions. Worst to first Florida. worsttofirst.org
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