In major shift, House bill would turn three USF universities into one

[tbulls]

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

[LeftCoastBull]

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.

[Azmodi]

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

[charsibb]

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."