Benelswick: when did you attend UF? I thought about dropping out too after a semester where I flunked 15 credits!!! I was unaware that you could withdraw without having those F's on your record, but I'm looking into petitioning to have a retroactive withdrawal placed on my record. Probably wont happen...
Anyway, after a summer spent 'soul-searching' (thats what I called it, but really I was just traveling around the southwest, sleeping in the back of my 4Runner) I decided to return and force myself to finish my degree. Dont know what department you were it, but the Computer Science department was terrible--I didnt realize it at the time, thought I was getting a great education, but having attended grad school elsewhere and post-bacc even elsewhere'er, I realize that many of the CompSci professors were just terrible. When I was there, there was a lot of buzz in the Alligator about the dean of the Med school quitting and the students and faculty being dissatisfied with the department. Dont know if its changed...
Heres a links to some articles about the school:
UF COM Links at Alligator.org
And one article in particular:
Dean of medical school resigns
By Rachel Harman
Alligator Staff Writer
After a scathing survey criticizing five top UF Health Science Center officials, the dean of the College of Medicine announced his resignation Wednesday.
Faculty and staff members gave Dr. Allen Neims a vote of no confidence for his fiscal leadership, however, Neims said the survey was not the main reason for his resignation.
"The faculty really didn't make the decision," Neims said. "What it did was crystallize it.
"The timing is very good for the college and for me (to resign). I would be foolish, and not true, to say that it didn't affect me," he said.
Neims also will resign from his position as UF Health Science Center associate vice president for clinical affairs.
Neims said the survey showed him that, as a dean, he lost the ability to lead the faculty.
"What a dean has to do, especially if you have the power that I do in some of the circles, is represent the faculty.
"So when I speak it is implicit that I am able to be an advocate for (my) college because (I) am carrying the weight of the faculty."
Neims' resignation, effective no later than Aug. 25, comes after seven years as dean. He said he wants to concentrate more on teaching and research.
One of the reasons Neims was criticized so harshly was because of the budget crisis plaguing the school. The $250 million budget is expected to be cut by as much as $9.4 million and 43 people, including two faculty members, will lose their jobs.
Neims, along with Dr. David Challoner, UF Health Affairs vice president; Dr. Warren Ross, UF Health Systems chief executive; Dr. Jerome Modell, executive associate dean; and Dr. Byron Masterson, Faculty Group Practice chief executive, received the vote of no confidence last week.
UF President John Lombardi said he did not believe Neims would resign because of the survey, but it was not a shock.
"It's not a real big surprise," Lombardi said. "He's been here seven years and he's done an extraordinary job.
"The survey is a symptom of the kind of challenges all health science and medicine face," he said. "It may have well helped to persuade him."
During Neims' tenure at UF, he was instrumental in creating the UF Brain Institute and helping with gene therapy for brain tumors and cystic fibrosis.
The resignation is upsetting for some health science officials, Challoner said.
"It is most unfortunate (because) he was the most successful dean in developing the teaching and research of the College of Medicine," he said.
Lombardi agreed, saying Neims has been a valuable part of the college.
"He has made some tremendous efforts to help the college (with a) balanced, structured budget."
But above all, Neims said he wants the students to know they will receive quality education.
"We have, and will continue, to place extremely high priority on the educational programs. (Students) should feel a very high sense of stability."
An interim dean will be appointed some time in the next few weeks, and then a national search will be conducted.
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