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What Is This All About?
On April 11th, 2012, Dean Abernathy announced a restructuring proposal would have destroyed the Computer & Information Science and Engineering (CISE) department at the University of Florida
Thanks to our SAVE UF supporters within the university, and stakeholders nationwide and globally who reached out to our decision makers, the Abernathy plan is off the table.
However, CISE is still in a perilous situation Read more...
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- Today’s Dean Fact 4/27 April 27, 2012
- The Difference Between CISE and ECE at UF (and Elsewhere) April 14, 2012
- Forbes and NY Times articles April 22, 2012
- CISE Starvation – Not “across the board” after all April 28, 2012
- “Off the table”, “set aside” ? (Recent news: CISE chair rejects Harris-Abernathy “hostile takeover,” CISE left out of Chairs’ Budget Planning) April 28, 2012
- In Search of Administrative Transparency, Rationale and Accountability (and a recommended budget plan for UF Engineering) June 1, 2012
- United Faculty of Florida Questions UF’s Management of Reserves, May 2012 June 1, 2012
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Current CISE Status
May 31, 2012
- Latest Dean Fact May 31, 2012
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Budget Cut a Check!
May 31, 2012
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- Call for ACTION : Pledge your Financial SUPPORT !!!: lnkd.in/jnKaJE 1 year ago
- University of Florida Announces Plan to Save Computer Science Department - Forbes onforb.es/IwOep0 via @sharethis 1 year ago
- Relief !!! Proposed UF College of Engineering budget will be set aside alligator.org/news/campus/ar… via @tweetmeme 1 year ago

This is typical of UF administrators. We all know that cuts are political rather than fiscally necessary. It was the same situation a few years ago when CLAS proposed to cherry pick and fire a few faculty members. Unfortunately too many faculty thought these firings were warranted by the budget till the administration announced an across the board raise for faculty a few months later! Were we supposed to feast on the carnage of our colleagues?