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September 12, 2007, 05:24 PM ET
Florida's Budget Woes Take a Toll on Hiring
Florida’s billion-dollar budget crunch is making it tough for the state’s public universities to recruit and retain top faculty members and administrators, The Ledger, in Lakeland, Fla., reports.
For example, the reporter, Shannon Colavecchio-Van Sickler, writes:
The University of South Florida’s College of Marine Science garnered national attention late last year when it announced its partnership with a Silicon Valley institution, yet budget woes are hindering the search for a dean to lead the celebrated college.
Elsewhere in the state, the stories are similar, Colavecchio-Van Sickler notes: USF, for example, has two vacant dean posts; the University of Florida and Florida State University each have three.
Meanwhile, Florida International University recently lost a half-dozen faculty members to higher-paying jobs outside Florida, not to mention “the top dean candidate for its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to the University of Nebraska after the Midwestern institution guaranteed more resources,” she writes:
“We were really excited about getting him,” President Mitch Maidique said of [the candidate], David Manderscheid, a longtime math professor from Iowa.
“But he said, ‘I don’t think you have the resources for me to get the college where it needs to be.’ I can’t blame him, but it’s sad,” Maidique said. “We’re just bleeding right now.”
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