Why Hickey is a Dickhead

Hickey flip-flopped on cutting statistics: From the Orlando Business Journal:

But a July 10 release said keeping statistics will preserve 12 faculty and two staff jobs and allow 75 students to continue in the program. Statistics will have to increase degree production and put a greater emphasis on biostatistics and data mining.

“After further consideration in recent weeks, I believe a restructuring of statistics will allow us to preserve the program as long as it meets new productivity measures,” said UCF Provost and Executive Vice President Terry Hickey.

How is the statistics department supposed to increase degree production? I suppose they could spend a bunch of money on a marketing campaign (e.g., “Statistics Stands for Opportunity”). Nope, that won’t work. The only efficacious thing the Department of Statistics can do to increase degree production is to lower academic standards.

It is Hickey’s desire for more students, more graduates, and the concomitant increase in funding that is destroying the value of a UCF degree.

Thanks to a reader for a link to the article.