tbulls Posted January 17, 2018 Group: Member Topic Count: 10 Content Count: 273 Reputation: 74 Days Won: 2 Joined: 01/14/2010 Share Posted January 17, 2018 Link to story below. Is this effort to take away pre-eminent status? http://www.tbo.com/news/education/college/In-major-shift-House-bill-would-turn-three-USF-universities-into-one_164562293 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeftCoastBull Posted January 17, 2018 Group: Member Topic Count: 1 Content Count: 38 Reputation: 15 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/01/2013 Share Posted January 17, 2018 My thoughts exactly, but I'm always skeptical. If it in any way improved our metrics I fully believe there is no way they'd let it happen. Will be interesting to see what the school puts out publicly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azmodi Posted January 18, 2018 Group: Member Topic Count: 12 Content Count: 3,233 Reputation: 1,169 Days Won: 8 Joined: 10/17/2013 Share Posted January 18, 2018 (edited) My first thought was a ploy to take away Pre-eminence. My thought was that if the St. Pete and Sarasota schools stats are combined with the Main campus, could those stats be enough to move USF out of qualification. My guess is yes but, I'm not sure that we'd be to far off in spite of the merger. It would however make USF the 4th largest public University in the USA. We'd be at 57 to 58K enrollment. That would put us behind tOSU and ahead of FIU. A very intriguing stat for Conference Realignment. https://www.bing.com/search?q=10+largest+public+college+enrollments+is+the+usa+2018&form=EDGTCT&qs=PF&cvid=738062fb76ef46eba8a407718d99e833&cc=US&setlang=en-US RANKING UNIVERSITY LOCATION ENROLLMENT 1 University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida 64,335 2 Texas A&M University College Station, Texas 60,435 3 Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio 59,482 4 Florida International University Miami, Florida 55,111 See all 12 rows on en.wikipedia.org Edited January 18, 2018 by Azmodi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charsibb Posted January 31, 2018 Group: Member Topic Count: 653 Content Count: 31,049 Reputation: 2,487 Days Won: 172 Joined: 08/30/2011 Share Posted January 31, 2018 On 1/17/2018 at 6:01 AM, LeftCoastBull said: My thoughts exactly, but I'm always skeptical. If it in any way improved our metrics I fully believe there is no way they'd let it happen. Will be interesting to see what the school puts out publicly. This does not give me confidence in the lawmakers, sounds very defensive. USF spokeswoman Lara Wade said in a statement: "The values of the USF System include unity, loyalty and the recognition that we are stronger when we work together. We intend to use those principles to help guide us through this process." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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