My poor friends in central are just counting the days before joe glover comes back and fires everyone lol. What an effing mess. Not UFs best moment. The optics are just so bad.
Quite surprised there was no mention of keeping men out of women's sports in his reforms. **We need to set public goals – and be held accountable regarding – at least ten academic disciplines where UF will become an undisputed national leader within a decade (the “10x10x10 initiative”). **We need to accelerate the targeted, direct hiring of the nation’s best faculty, and especially biomedical research physician-scientists, at the pace of tech and business – rather than at the sleepy pace where status-quo bureaucracies often drift for years, instead of pursuing targeted, rockstar academic hires. **We need to grow by 10x the ability of UF undergrads to study abroad in a way that does not delay their graduation timelines.
Sasse stepped down. Donors and top officials say he was forced out. - The Independent Florida Alligator Early in his tenure, Sasse commissioned a $4.7 million report from a consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, to help him develop a strategic plan for the university, which included expanding non-traditional teaching that wouldn’t require students to meet regularly inside classrooms in Gainesville, increasing interdisciplinary work across the university’s colleges and eliminating what he described as unproductive professors. ---------------------- Like I said, I think the post-tenure review mess at UF is a direct result of Sasse's desires. BTW, this article just intensifies my dislike of Mori Hosseini. Get that hack off our BOT. He's not a Gator.
I’m not an expert on all the definitions and uses of Occam’s razor, but the other similar if not the same question is who benefits the most? Who benefitted the most by Sasse no longer being in the Senate? Pretty simple answer, the guy who took over his seat, Pete Ricketts. Who benefitted the most by Pete Ricketts moving into the Senate? I can’t say Desantis benefitted “the most” but he did benefit.
The obvious question is did Sasse unilaterally give his DC people cushy no-show jobs all by himself or did someone give him permission to do that? Was that one of the conditions of him accepting the position? Who else knew and when did they know? Is he going to rat them out of keep quiet?
i'll be interested to see if anyone looks at what they actually did. It's not impossible but the people he hired did a good job for UF. Seems unlikely, but it isn't crazy. The more egregious part to me is giving McKinsey all of that money. paying off that firm is political patronage, pure and simple. If someone ever shows me a benefit they provided anywhere it will be the first time I've seen it I think Hosseini was mad that Sasse didn't get behind his plan to fleece UF and the state by creating whatever the hell they were talking about doing in Jacksonville, where a big chunk of money would filter down to him. All of these people are shameless grifters.
Can confirm sasse fully behind the jax project. He hired a vp I haven’t seen mentioned in any of this that’s been going around college to college looking for faculty to launch programs up there. Really nice guy - been working his ass off by all accounts I’ve heard.
I’m talking about very high salaries for tenured faculty. Sasse giving fat salaries to his buddies is just political handouts and cronyism.
You are so right! Either they are all I've league presidents or presidents of a1500 student college. There is no in-between. I'm so silly. It doesn't matter as long as they kiss the ring send to be the motto.
nah something went bad with donors fighting or something like that in west palm. Jax was plan b. Or so I’ve heard but who knows.
pissed off desi's boy, hopefully the state does charge him and Sasse goes scorched earth on the lot of them
I am not particularly a fan of Sasse, but if you can't see that he is being examined under a much more powerful microscope than presidents who were here before, then I don't know what to tell you. It may bear out that he wasn't doing what was in the best interest of UF and it may prove that he was. I am not going to take the word of a student newspaper who has long been a liberal rag that will go after anything it doesn't deem "down with the cause." If I were president I would have people with connections on my staff that I could trust to do a good job and having connections on Capitol Hill certainly doesn't hurt. And tenure for tenure's sake is the dumbest thing ever. There is no reason to pay someone a huge salary unless they are earning it. Dr. Bleiweis is a professor and the Director of UF Health and Congenital Heart Center, and seems to have done a great job expanding the center since he was hired in 2005. I wonder why he has not been vetted like Sasse, and have the people he has hired looked at with a microscope to see if he is bringing in some of his "cronies" just like Sasse is accused of doing? His salary of 1.6 million surely warrants a peek from our student watchdogs, does it not?
