<p>From the link above:</p>
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Wow, no one saw this coming. The University of Florida announced this past week that it was dropping its computer science department, which will allow it to save about $1.7 million save about $1.4 million. The school is eliminating all funding for teaching assistants in computer science, cutting the graduate and research programs entirely, and moving the tattered remnants into other departments.</p>
<p>Lets get this straight: in the midst of a technology revolution, with a shortage of engineers and computer scientists, UF decides to cut computer science completely?</p>
<p>Students at UF have already organized protests, and have created a website dedicated to saving the CS department. Several distinguished computer scientists have written to the president of UF to express their concerns, in very blunt terms. Prof. Zvi Galil, Dean of Computing at Georgia Tech, is amazed, shocked, and angered. Prof. S.N. Maheshwari, former Dean of Engineering at IIT Delhi, calls this move outrageously wrong. Computer scientist Carl de Boor, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and winner of the 2003 National Medal of Science, asked the UF president What were you thinking?
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<p>Really? No wonder he is being offered a free education. How could you advocate this over being a John Jay scholar (paying internships, which will reduce the debt level, btw), at Columbia.</p>
<p>There is a time when debt aversion becomes irrational. This is one of those times.</p>