Preeminence

[ToroDeFuego]

https://twitter.com/USouthFlorida/status/905495779531476993

 

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Finally, amazingly… we have reached preeminence!

11:19 AM - 6 Sep 2017 from Tampa, FL

Edited September 6, 2017 by ToroDeFuego

[ToroDeFuego]

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

[Roaming Bull]

Sweet. That's awesome!

[Hem]

Wow we did that quickly from when they "moved back the goal posts" on us!

 

Nice!

[USoFlo]

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.

[Mama_Bull]

 

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

[Mama_Bull]

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

[Rizman]

That is awesome. 

[Mama_Bull]

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

 

 

 

 

 

[370Bull]

Yes! That is great news. Even more proud to be a bull!