Wanna Fight?

A source of mine has reminded me of this story about John Hitt: Well over a decade ago, he was in a UCF meeting with someone who disagreed with him. Hitt challenged him to a fight.

I doubt Hitt is challenging many people to fights now. He’s so hunched over that he looks like the letter “C.”

UCF will Nickel and Dime Students until they have an Empire (or Enron)

A three percent increase in housing fees is probably a reasonable response to inflation. Notice how the housing department was willing to explain why they were increasing costs. A five percent increase in parking fees is out of the ordinary. Notice how the parking department was unavailable for comment. They are increasing the fee simply because they want more.

And There is a Recession Coming

Take a look at this Sentinel article about the economic difficulties of the UCF Golden Knights Plaza and you’ll see a metaphor for all UCF administrators. Although Chad Binette does an admirable job of arguing that things are not so bad, the critical piece of evidence is that UCF waived rent for a month and deferred it for another month. Because UCF loves money, things must have been quite dire for the administration to come to this decision.

This story is just another example of the inability of UCF administrators to make sound decisions. If it were not for the existence of taxpayer-subsidized education, most of these fools would be starving to death. I don’t mind that the less fortunate are propped up (although we don’t need to be doing it at salaries over six figures a year), but I do mind that these cognitively challenged individuals are determined to keep spending more and more money on foolish endeavors.

Wasted Donations

UCF claims they are halfway to raising the 6.4 million necessary to give their entire medical school inaugural class full scholarships. If UCF had not gone the scholarship route then their first year class would have consisted of students who otherwise would have gone to the Caribbean for med school. I wonder if all this scholarship money will be enough to dissuade talented students from attending an established medical school.

Frankly, with all the better charities out there (e.g., cancer research; hunger reduction programs), I’m surprised that people have spent this much money to educate a class of what will inevitably be mediocre doctors.

Welcome

I decided to see if spamming the comments section of this story at the Orlando Sentinel would result in this site getting more hits. Today has been a busy day at the blog – you could say that we are seeing positive growth and therefore the state should give us more money, and we should be able to raise tuition.

For new readers, I’d like to take a moment to explain that the purpose of this blog is to offer the following conclusions: UCF doesn’t care about offering a quality education. UCF doesn’t care about using finite resources carefully to meet the needs of the community. Top UCF administrators care about the survival and growth of the organization. In other words, UCF Loves Money.

If UCF’s love of money resulted in a quality education then it would be okay, but UCF offers degrees that lack academic rigorousness.

The teaching quality at UCF is hit or miss, mostly miss.

Top UCF administrators are corrupt. They hire non-essential employees to curry favor with the Florida Legislature.

Steps need to be taken at UCF to improve the quality of the degree and end the waste and corruption. Take a look around the blog and let me know what you think by emailing ucflovesmoney@yahoo.com. Also, if you have a good story to report (I protect my sources) send along an email and we can chat about that.