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4/22/2012 @ 3:13PM |267,246 views
University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department, Increases
Athletic Budgets. Hmm.

Wow, no one saw this coming. The University of Florida announced this
past week that it was dropping its computer science department, which
will allow it to save about $1.7 million. The school is eliminating all
funding for teaching assistants in computer science, cutting the
graduate and research programs entirely, and moving the tattered
remnants into other departments.

Let’s get this straight: in the midst of a technology revolution, with a
shortage of engineers and computer scientists, UF decides to cut
computer science completely?

From Forbes Magazine:

http://tinyurl.com/6n6q52m


More and more, Florida sounds like the perfect state for the relocation
of "JustHateaMinute..."