ToroDeFuego Posted September 6, 2017 Group: Member Topic Count: 70 Content Count: 611 Reputation: 275 Days Won: 3 Joined: 01/27/2016 Share Posted September 6, 2017 (edited) https://twitter.com/USouthFlorida/status/905495779531476993 More Finally, amazingly… we have reached preeminence! 11:19 AM - 6 Sep 2017 from Tampa, FL Edited September 6, 2017 by ToroDeFuego Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToroDeFuego Posted September 6, 2017 Group: Member Topic Count: 70 Content Count: 611 Reputation: 275 Days Won: 3 Joined: 01/27/2016 Author Share Posted September 6, 2017 (edited) https://twitter.com/TBBJJanelle/status/905498279382835200 .@USouthFlorida joins only @UF and FSU @Seminoles in preeminence. Means millions in extra state funding. Edited September 6, 2017 by ToroDeFuego Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roaming Bull Posted September 6, 2017 Group: Member Topic Count: 64 Content Count: 9,756 Reputation: 2,174 Days Won: 25 Joined: 09/20/2014 Share Posted September 6, 2017 Sweet. That's awesome! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hem Posted September 6, 2017 Group: Member Topic Count: 64 Content Count: 4,663 Reputation: 401 Days Won: 21 Joined: 09/24/2012 Share Posted September 6, 2017 Wow we did that quickly from when they "moved back the goal posts" on us! Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USoFlo Posted September 6, 2017 Group: Member Topic Count: 26 Content Count: 334 Reputation: 50 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/2007 Share Posted September 6, 2017 13 minutes ago, Hem said: Wow we did that quickly from when they "moved back the goal posts" on us! Nice! I think Rick Scott vetoed the bill with the changes if I'm not mistaken. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama_Bull Posted September 6, 2017 Group: Member Topic Count: 1,207 Content Count: 18,470 Reputation: 899 Days Won: 44 Joined: 10/14/2003 Share Posted September 6, 2017 Text of the 2017 Fall Address by USF President Judy Genshaft on Sept. 6, 2017 ...Finally, amazingly… we have reached preeminence. USF Tampa now meets 11 of the 12 metrics required in the 2017 laws of the State of Florida to be designated as a Preeminent State Research University. This is incredible. Read more at: http://news.usf.edu/article/templates/?a=8032&z=220 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama_Bull Posted September 6, 2017 Group: Member Topic Count: 1,207 Content Count: 18,470 Reputation: 899 Days Won: 44 Joined: 10/14/2003 Share Posted September 6, 2017 (edited) I presume, USF reached the 70% six year graduation level threshold to meet the 11th requirement for preeminence. From a July, 2017 article: Preeminence is granted based on 12 benchmarks. Schools must meet at least 11 in order to be considered preeminent. USF currently meets 10 of those. Reaching a 70 percent, six-year graduation rate would be the 11th. Only two Florida schools currently meet the required benchmarks including the University of Florida and Florida State University. https://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/news/2017/07/12/usfs-latest-award-signals-a-path-to-preeminence.html?ana=e_me_set1&s=newsletter&ed=2017-07-12&u=Ow2NliFEGL70UCxfbnJ8pg0540ac65&t=1499873658&j=78536741 Edited September 6, 2017 by Mama_Bull Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rizman Posted September 6, 2017 Group: Member Topic Count: 2,330 Content Count: 21,286 Reputation: 908 Days Won: 10 Joined: 01/02/2007 Share Posted September 6, 2017 That is awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama_Bull Posted September 7, 2017 Group: Member Topic Count: 1,207 Content Count: 18,470 Reputation: 899 Days Won: 44 Joined: 10/14/2003 Share Posted September 7, 2017 6 hours ago, USoFlo said: I think Rick Scott vetoed the bill with the changes if I'm not mistaken. Yes, he did (thankfully). The bill was going to raise the four year graduation rate to 60% and that would have eliminated USF from meeting that requirement until at least 2020: USF's path to 'preeminence' is restored after Rick Scott vetoes higher education bill By Claire McNeill, Kristen M. Clark and Mary Ellen Klas, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau Thursday, June 15, 2017 8:25am Currently, preeminence funding hinges in part on a six-year graduation rate of 70%. USF is on track to hit that benchmark in 2018, putting it right on the cusp. The Senate's higher education bill sought to instead rate schools based on a four-year graduation rate, and it initially set the mark at 50 percent, a standard that USF already meets. But drama erupted when legislators decided to move the benchmark to a 60 percent, setting USF's preeminence drive back until at least 2020. Scott's veto means the metric stays unchanged at the six-year markad Read more at: http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/college/rick-scott-vetoes-higher-education-bill-but-leaders-say-bright-futures/2327292 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
370Bull Posted September 7, 2017 Group: Member Topic Count: 14 Content Count: 482 Reputation: 68 Days Won: 1 Joined: 07/03/2013 Share Posted September 7, 2017 Yes! That is great news. Even more proud to be a bull! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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