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Florence SnyderDecember 12, 2016

Florida changes higher education funding formulas nearly as often as Kardashians change clothes. At the Department of Making Things Incomprehensible, Metrics Mavens have their hands full monkeying around with the Ten Metrics that determine which universities get the rich gravy, and which get the thin gruel. Florida’s Ten Metrics appear to have been written by […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMay 25, 2016

Gov. Rick Scott has some suggestions to make sure college students graduate in four years. Remove additional fees for online classes. Allow Bright Futures scholarships to be used for summer classes. Make sure students get credit for college-level courses taken in high schools. The Naples Republican laid out his proposal at his Degrees to Jobs […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterApril 18, 2016

Senate President-Designate Joe Negron is heading back to college. Negron kicks off a four-day listening tour of Florida’s State University System on Monday. The Stuart Republican is expected to visit all 12 of the state universities during the listening tour. “Over the last several years, I have had the opportunity to discuss with fellow senators […]

Jac VerSteegJanuary 13, 2016

FAU professor James Tracy is creating an opening for Florida politicians who don’t like tenure and don’t like faculty unions. Because of Tracy’s case, tenure opponents could go on the attack and look good doing it. Tracy is the Florida Atlantic University communications professor who claims the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre is a […]

Jac VerSteegJanuary 12, 2016

FAU professor James Tracy is creating an opening for Florida politicians who don’t like tenure and don’t like faculty unions. Because of Tracy’s case, tenure opponents could go on the attack and look good doing it. Tracy is the Florida Atlantic University communications professor who claims the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre is a […]

Guest AuthorMarch 24, 2015

Few hot-button topics are hotter among university faculty than whether tenure is essential to academic freedom and quality teaching. Tenure reform sometimes is the third-rail of academia in the same way Social Security is the third rail of national politics. A university president who suggests tenure reform can expect to face a vote of no […]

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TALLAHASSEE, FLA. 4/18/25-Candles and remembrances are left near the Unconquered statue a few hours after the Florida State University Gathering of Unity Vigil held Friday to honor victims of the recent mass shooting. COLIN HACKLEY PHOTO

Meaningless metrics mask troublesome trends in higher education

At summit, Rick Scott urges on Florida colleges, universities to help students graduate sooner

Joe Negron kicks off State University listening tour

Jac VerSteeg: FAU professor James Tracy’s case helps anti-tenure forces

Jac VerSteeg: FAU professor James Tracy's case helps anti-tenure forces

Dan Dundon: An insider's view of tenure at Florida universities