Inside Higher Ed: Divisive Semester at Florida
The fall semester at the University of Florida started with a lot of uncertainty, as reports of a growing deficit in its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences led to calls to eliminate dozens of faculty and graduate student slots in the humanities and mathematics. The semester is drawing to a close without much more clarity and with considerable rancor — the dean is leaving, the English department is in receivership, and administrators have admitted that, initially at least, they didn’t sufficiently involve professors in finding a way out of the college’s financial mess.
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