<p>Maybe President Barron should take this opportunity to ask for our own Engineering school. FSU seems to have good programs in the arts, law, and pure sciences but its reputation for applied sciences, like engineering, is so-so. I have heard people state that they were considering FSU, but were put off by the FSU-FAMU collaboration in engineering and went to UCF instead, even thought they feel FSU is generally the better school as a whole.</p>
<p>Note: I am NOT suggesting that we pull a TK Wetherall and try to steal the existing school from FAMU. But if FSU would get their own new engineering facilities and pay for it with a combination of state funding, increased tuition and alumni fundraising, it would definitely increase the the number and quality of engineering applicants to FSU and boost the school’s STEM output.</p>