Top 10 here we come!!
http://news.fsu.edu/news/university...-receive-98-7-million-in-performance-funding/
http://news.fsu.edu/news/university...-receive-98-7-million-in-performance-funding/
FSU is becoming the Yale of the south. $98 million...
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Here's how universities fared in points, new performance funding, their allocation of institutional investment and total performance funding:
University of Florida: 93 points; $57.6 million; $53 million;
total: $110.6 million
Florida International University: 90 points, $40 million; $33.7 million;
total: $73.7 million
Florida State University: 86 points, $51.6 million; $47.1 million;
total: $98.7 million
University of South Florida: 86 points; $37.6 million; $41.9 million;
total: $79.6 million
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The University of Central Florida will receive $37.5 million in performance-based funding this year, even as leaders faced questions from state officials Wednesday about the school’s ever-growing student body.
With enrollment expected to top 67,000 this fall and continue to grow at a pace of at least 1,400 students per year through 2021, members of the Board of Governors, who oversee the Florida university system, grilled UCF outgoing president John Hitt and his successor, Dale Whittaker, who takes over Sunday.
University of Florida: 93 points; $57.6 million; $53 million;
total: $110.6 million
Florida International University: 90 points, $40 million; $33.7 million;
total: $73.7 million
Florida State University: 86 points, $51.6 million; $47.1 million;
total: $98.7 million
University of South Florida: 86 points; $37.6 million; $41.9 million;
total: $79.6 million
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The University of Central Florida will receive $37.5 million in performance-based funding this year, even as leaders faced questions from state officials Wednesday about the school’s ever-growing student body.
With enrollment expected to top 67,000 this fall and continue to grow at a pace of at least 1,400 students per year through 2021, members of the Board of Governors, who oversee the Florida university system, grilled UCF outgoing president John Hitt and his successor, Dale Whittaker, who takes over Sunday.
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Enrollment to top 67,000?!! That’s insane and a very bad look for higher education.
Largest university in the country even beating out the traitor’s aTm by 10,000+.
I think that “count” includes all manner of part-time, night, and on-line “students.” I just know UCF has historically had a disproportionate number of “commuter students” (i.e., people working full time jobs but taking a few classes at a time). I assume they also have a ton of “conventional” students, but I’d love to see some breakdown of this.
I believe it speaks to a few things...from outsiders looking in, there could be the thought "UCF will take anyone"...."professor to student ratios out of proportion".....and "they don't graduate their underclasses in four years". More isn't always better....
Most of the urban campuses in Florida have shed their "commuter school" labels and transitioned into more of a traditional college experience to absorb the state's exploding population. This is true for USF, UCF, UNF and, to a lesser extent, the South Florida universities such as FAU and FIU.
I get that it’s not always better but it’s not necessarily bad either.
When I was at FSU I had classes with what had to be more than a hundred people. Overseen by some grad students that had drawn the short straw.
And I realize and understand the need for motivating students to be in and out in four years but in many cases it’s just not realistic. Particularly with returning students and those with limited time and resources.
For the most part these are people who are looking to better themselves or at the very least to expand their horizons.
Precisely the purpose for which public colleges and universities are intended.
Ideal? Maybe not. A bad look? No.
67,000 students and a four year graduation rate of 36% is a very, very bad look. There is a reason why UCF is catching hell from the state.
University of Florida and Florida State University, Flagship Universities of the great state of Florida, are able to attract high school students that already have a years worth of college credits via AP courses in high school and in return helps boost there four year graduation percentage to 60+%.
UCF is still a commuter school and operating as such.
Not just very bad but “... very, very bad...”
I yield the point to you as further discussion might lead to the
institution‘s standing devolving to very, very, very bad.
Catching hell from the great state of Florida seems punishment enough.
That, and having a football team named the Knights.
