{"id":37129,"date":"2012-04-24T19:04:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T19:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/univ-of-florida-eliminates-computer-science\/"},"modified":"2012-04-24T19:04:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T19:04:50","slug":"univ-of-florida-eliminates-computer-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/univ-of-florida-eliminates-computer-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Univ. of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department, Increases Athletic Budgets."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/stevensalzberg\/2012\/04\/22\/university-of-florida-eliminates-computer-science-department-increases-athletic-budgets-hmm\/'>Univ. of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department, Increases Athletic Budgets. <\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wilwheaton.tumblr.com\/post\/21720184663\/univ-of-florida-eliminates-computer-science\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">wilwheaton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/laughterkey.tumblr.com\/post\/21653125341\/univ-of-florida-eliminates-computer-science\">laughterkey<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/warrennotg-blog.tumblr.com\/post\/21652478191\">warrennotg-blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Forbes.com: The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/colleges\/university-of-florida\/\">University of Florida<\/a>\u00a0announced this past week that it was dropping its computer science department, which will allow it to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ireport.cnn.com\/docs\/DOC-776687\">save about $1.7 million<\/a>. \u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n<p>Students at UF have already organized protests, and have created\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/saveufcise.wordpress.com\/\">a website dedicated to saving the CS department<\/a>. \u00a0Several distinguished computer scientists have\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/saveufcise.wordpress.com\/letters-from-luminaries\/\">written to the president of UF<\/a>\u00a0to express their concerns, in very blunt terms.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alligatorarmy.com\/2011\/6\/18\/2230429\/money-matters-floridas-athletic-budget-gets-larger-for-2011-12\">the athletic budget for the current year<\/a>\u00a0is $99 million, an increase of more than $2 million from last year. \u00a0The increase alone would more than offset the savings supposedly gained by cutting computer science.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jesus, guys! You know, Computer Science wasn\u2019t on <a href=\"http:\/\/newsweek.tumblr.com\/post\/21649811964\/the-13-most-useless-college-majors-as-determined-by\">the list of shitty majors<\/a>. Not that I think they\u2019re actually shitty majors, but <em>really<\/em>? Computer Science?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>SCIENCE BAD! SPORTSBALL GOOD! WAY TO GO AMERICA!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Univ. of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department, Increases Athletic Budgets. wilwheaton: laughterkey: warrennotg-blog: Forbes.com: The\u00a0University of Florida\u00a0announced this past week that it was dropping its computer science department, which will allow it to\u00a0save about $1.7 million. \u00a0The school is eliminating all funding for teaching assistants in computer science, cutting the graduate and research programs entirely, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-37129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9ER","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}