May 21, 2009
'Where Dreamers Come to Die'
Florida's public universities face gutted programs and faculty departures
U. of Florida
Florida's public universities might be short of money, but they are never short of students, particularly not the U. of Florida, which is overrun each spring by hordes of touring applicants and their parents.
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U. of Florida
Florida's public universities might be short of money, but they are never short of students, particularly not the U. of Florida, which is overrun each spring by hordes of touring applicants and their parents.
Bad budgets are old news in the Sunshine State. While colleges across the nation are coping with the recession, public universities in Florida, a state with finances that resemble a Ponzi scheme, have spent years doing without.
Ask Paul Outka, an assistant professor in Florida State University's highly regarded English department. But don't call him on his office phone this fall. He won't have one anymore —it's among the latest victims of cost-cutting.
He says he
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