In a sweeping move, the Florida Board of Governors, yesterday, voted to limit the number of Florida public universities that offer graduate degrees to:
• Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
• Florida Atlantic University
• Florida Gulf Coast University
• Florida International University
• Florida State University
• University of Central Florida
• University of Florida
• University of North Florida
• University of South Florida
• University of West Florida
All other colleges/universities in the SUS will be strictly undergraduate institutions. The BOG said that any future public universities in the state will be bachelor degree granting universities. The "governors" claimed that over the next 20 years Florida will need to have 3.5 million adults with bachelor degrees, about 1 million more than the state currently has in order to be competitive nationally and globally.
The plan approved by the BOG is a modified version of the controversial "Pappa Report" the board floated around earlier this year which sought to divide the SUS into a two tiered system, one for research universities and the other for bachelor only institutions. The the plan is a form of tiering but doesn't diminish the ten universities that offer graduate programs in any way.
Power grab delayed
The Board's attempt at a power grab, from local Boards of Trustees was temporarily postponed. The BOG sought to give itself the authority to approve Masters and Doctoral degree programs at indvidual universities. That motion will be taken up at the Board's December meeting.
Good post. The state newspapers are focusing almost exclusively on the tuition vote. The classification decision went under the radar.
ReplyDeleteThis is exactly why we need FAMUans to attend these meetings and issue their own reports about what happened.
Off with the head of the two-headed snake:
ReplyDeleteCarolyn Roberts
Mark Rosenberg
I have read the other post and they seem to have a hard-on for FAMU.
This move is a set up by the BOG. We gotta keep and eye on them.
ReplyDeleteI watched this meeting and never before have a seen a completely incompetent bunch. A bunch of intellectual light weights !
And isn't this what the Pappas report said? Have you read it? Of course not, black folk only regurgitate the rumor from the barbershop
ReplyDeleteThe Pappas report said FAMU should be a baccalaureate-only university, meaning that it would lose all its masters and doctoral level programs.
ReplyDeleteWhat the BOG just approved stated that Florida's ten public universities would be the only institutions that would offer graduate-level programs. New College and the the community colleges will be restricted to baccalaureates.
FAMUans dodged a bullet on this issue. Had Rattlers not protested or written letters and op-eds, then the BOG would have surely taken away FAMU's MBA, Ph.D. law, and Pharm.D. programs.
It would have been a very happy day for FSU, which would have receieved control over all the masters and doctoral programs in the E-School.
...and add to the list the Pharmacy and all Allied Health programs....
ReplyDeleteThat's very true. The FSU supporters who blast FAMU on The Tallahassee Democrat's online story chats are always the most vigorous defenders of Castell. The love her. She was the only FAMU president who was willing to do their dirty work by supporting the Pappas Plan and trying to hand the E-School to FSU.
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