WFTV does a fluff piece on UCF’s medical school. Here’s a quote from Dean German:
I really want to build the best medical school in the world, and I realize that that sounds very arrogant. But my view is that if you don’t start off with that as your vision you are going to fall short.
Dr. German, you actually sound more stupid than arrogant. When you set unrealistic goals, you are guaranteed to fall short.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Monday, September 8, 2008
They Get It
The Central Florida Future, in an essay on UCF’s legacy policy, nicely summarizes one of UCF’s major problems:
At one point, UCF was one of the most accepting schools in Florida, which is how the enrollment numbers jumped so quickly and made the school the sixth largest in the nation. Now, it's coming back to hurt the quality of the school because as the student body increased exponentially, the faculty numbers remained relatively unchanged.
At one point, UCF was one of the most accepting schools in Florida, which is how the enrollment numbers jumped so quickly and made the school the sixth largest in the nation. Now, it's coming back to hurt the quality of the school because as the student body increased exponentially, the faculty numbers remained relatively unchanged.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
UCF Hates Critical Thinking
UCF is arguing that they have one of the most selective medical schools in the country. They use an inappropriate statistic to suggest that UCF’s medical school is more selective than Harvard, Yale, or Duke.
As of Aug. 22, UCF will accept one of every 67.5 applicants for the charter class. That’s more selective than Harvard (1 in 40.2), Yale (1 in 50.2) or Duke (1 in 53) were last year, according to data in the 2009-2010 Association of American Medical Colleges Medical School Admission Requirements guide.
UCF’s number appears so impressive because they are accepting an atypically small class (40 students), and UCF has gotten a lot of applications from weak and/or poor students who know better than to waste their time and money on very selective, expensive schools. When comparing GPAs and MCAT scores, does anyone seriously think the UCF inaugural class will be as impressive as those at Harvard, Yale, or Duke?
Comparing UCF to Harvard is typical of the administrative culture at UCF where everyone is expected to engage in hyperbolic bragging that typifies a wrestler in the WWE. If you are a reasonable person associated with UCF, you cringe from embarrassment whenever you read stuff like this.
As of Aug. 22, UCF will accept one of every 67.5 applicants for the charter class. That’s more selective than Harvard (1 in 40.2), Yale (1 in 50.2) or Duke (1 in 53) were last year, according to data in the 2009-2010 Association of American Medical Colleges Medical School Admission Requirements guide.
UCF’s number appears so impressive because they are accepting an atypically small class (40 students), and UCF has gotten a lot of applications from weak and/or poor students who know better than to waste their time and money on very selective, expensive schools. When comparing GPAs and MCAT scores, does anyone seriously think the UCF inaugural class will be as impressive as those at Harvard, Yale, or Duke?
Comparing UCF to Harvard is typical of the administrative culture at UCF where everyone is expected to engage in hyperbolic bragging that typifies a wrestler in the WWE. If you are a reasonable person associated with UCF, you cringe from embarrassment whenever you read stuff like this.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Loyalty is everything at UCF where it is okay to be incompetent as long as you have proven your allegiance to the higher ups. For example, David Mealor is a useless idiot, but he has shown loyalty to his immediate boss and Hitt and Hickey. If he hadn’t been loyal to them, his thieving would have been dealt with entirely differently.
I get interesting email, and in the future I’d like this blog to rely more on material from the readers. If you send an email, you need to let me know if I can anonymously quote all or part of it. Otherwise, I’ll probably be too concerned for your career to do anything with it.
The email is ucflovesmoney@yahoo.com
I get interesting email, and in the future I’d like this blog to rely more on material from the readers. If you send an email, you need to let me know if I can anonymously quote all or part of it. Otherwise, I’ll probably be too concerned for your career to do anything with it.
The email is ucflovesmoney@yahoo.com
Monday, August 25, 2008
Happy First Day of Classes
UCF’s enrollment could have increased to 50,000. Because of budget cuts and bad priorities, this may result in even larger than usual class sizes.
In related news, U.S. News & World Report's college rankings have come out and Rollins gets a lot more love than UCF. I’m not a huge fan of Rollins. It has always struck me as a post secondary playpen for the dumb children of the very rich (Bret Easton Ellis takes a great dig at Rollins in his novel American Psycho). However, to give Rollins credit, they do seem to make the most of their small class sizes. Their students have homework, multiple papers, and lots of interaction with the instructors. In contrast, UCF’s students often have large lecture classes with only a few multiple choice exams. Although it is a question of opinion, it seems almost indisputable that the former is a better method of education than the latter.
The sad thing is that it didn’t have to be this way. If Hitt had not had such a boner for growth at the expense of everything else, he could have been presiding over a still large school where students attend reasonably sized classes at an academically respected university.
In related news, U.S. News & World Report's college rankings have come out and Rollins gets a lot more love than UCF. I’m not a huge fan of Rollins. It has always struck me as a post secondary playpen for the dumb children of the very rich (Bret Easton Ellis takes a great dig at Rollins in his novel American Psycho). However, to give Rollins credit, they do seem to make the most of their small class sizes. Their students have homework, multiple papers, and lots of interaction with the instructors. In contrast, UCF’s students often have large lecture classes with only a few multiple choice exams. Although it is a question of opinion, it seems almost indisputable that the former is a better method of education than the latter.
The sad thing is that it didn’t have to be this way. If Hitt had not had such a boner for growth at the expense of everything else, he could have been presiding over a still large school where students attend reasonably sized classes at an academically respected university.
Friday, August 1, 2008
FIU Loves Money
FIU hires the outgoing Speaker of the Florida House to teach two courses a year. For this part time job, they are going to pay him 69 grand a year.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
