University of Florida President Ben Sasse Announces Resignation

Agree on your first sentence, however the difference in endowments are astounding. UF has roughly 1/25 the endowment of the top ivy college, Harvard.

UF, UM have Florida's largest endowments — more than $1 billion each

Ballooning Ivy League Endowment Forecasted To Top $1 Trillion By 2048

 

You've misinterpreted my post. An athletics program that helps keep interest from alumni and helps generates interest in the University from industry, etc. benefits both the academic AND athletics side. I was certainly not suggesting that donations to Athletics were greater that that of the academic side, or should be in any kind of competition at all.

 

The honors program at UF is the only thing that may approach the Ivy schools. The preparation required for these schools means classes can be far more in-depth in class sizes and tutorials that dictate not only mastery but deeper understanding. There are exceptions for legacy students, but the level of education is exceptional. Class experience is simply different. As an alumnus, for many years I reviewed applications and made recommendations for admissions to Yale.
Many UF students would do well there, but the educational experience is not the same.

 

Athletics is the key for notoriety and interest from alumni.

The landscape of academics has shifted. Outside of a few niche programs there isn’t much difference between hiring from an Ivy, state school or a small school. The personalities may be different but success of the candidate is just as uncertain. Ivys have the hiring preference due to alums hiring alums. It’s a network and sales thing.

Obviously we need to continue to invest and raise standards academically.

But a random hiring manager in Arizona will know a school far more due to its athletics than its relative academic rank.

I hire people in finance. For me there are a few schools that stand at the top, then probably 150 that are basically the same, then the question marks. But the actual major matters more in many cases. And it only matters for entry entry level. Once you have a few years of experience you could have went to any school

 

I saw the movie and it changed the way I think about ants.

 

I used to work at UF and went to a presentation by the foundation where pointed out something crazy like +75% of all UF grads were born after 1980. So as those people start to age and potentially leave inheritances they expect the endowments will start growing quite a bit more and we’re already in the top 10 or close of public universities

 

Did you miss the part about a brain aneurysm and multiple strokes?

The seizures are just one manifestation of what must be profound brain dysfunction.

 

Ivy League colleges are not what they once were. Woke ideology and legacy admissions in the past few years have damaged their academic reputation. They infrequently win any national college competitions. Most go on to a grad school, so not a good place to hire undergrads. Work ethic for some not there.

 

Nobody wants to work with anybody that wants to throw their freaking weight around

 

So which

So which is it is it? Don’t really care for the bureaucracy of crap, but I do feel bad for his wife

 

I don’t care how he treats athletics as long as he stays out of the way of doing well and athletics.

 

And that matters to me how?

 

Imagine leaving everything you earned in your life to a college. Different worlds, right?

 

I don’t think many people will leave their whole estate to the school. For most, it’s maybe 10 percent or some other small percentage. Some give a bunch more. Many give nothing.
But when you figure the net worth of the average UF alum later in life, and how many of us there are, there’s potentially a whole boatload of money out there.

 

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What do mean "which is it?"

The recent declines are doubtless sequelae of the earlier brain injuries. It is not an either or, it is all one thing, just getting worse.

 

Reading some of the post before that, is it just his wife’s health or the suggestion that he’s difficult to deal with and there is issues on the job

 

I totally get it but I think I’ll leave what little I have to my children. They will need it a lot more than a school with hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of dollars.

 

Nice use of the word sequelae

 

Well, those other stories are unsubstantiated. Unlike his wife's significant health issues. I'm going to go with the one that at least has some basis in fact.

Aside from that "difficult to deal with" absent any context is less than meaningless. Spurrier could be difficult to work with, especially if you thought it was ok to do things other than his way.

 

Proof that I did learn something in the years at UF!