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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m sure that there are smart kids at UFL, especially among the group for whom it is free.  But it really appears to be run like a diploma mill with its dependence on online classes and TAs.  Add in DeSantis influencing curriculum.  It just isn’t appealing when one is paying real money for it.[/quote]

Desantis influencing curriculum is a good reason to avoid FL's public universities.  Dependence on TAs is not.  (There seems to be no reason to think UF is more TA-dependent than other large research universities.  There's actually reason to think it may be less TA-dependent than many others.)  And is this 'Zoom U' accusation empirically well founded?  Do students [i]have[/i] to take online classes there?

The idea that UF is a 'diploma mill' is absurd.  If makes sense only if you think that only SLACs are not diploma mills.[/quote]

Yes, the zoom u is empirically founded.  [b]There is a one group of admitted freshman that are required to take online classes for the entire first year[/b], but also many classes in the business school, etc . .Also true that stat schools differ in how much they rely upon TAs.  All those kids attending for free means UFl is getting a lot fewer tuition dollars than other state flagships, this is true of all Florida public’s.[/quote]

Well, that's bad (the bolded bit above) -- I would avoid that for sure. Respectfully, however, you seem to be confusing TAs with adjuncts. TAs are grad students, whose graduate educations are funded by those teaching appointments. Universities don't appoint TAs as a cost-cutting measure: they do it to fund their graduate programs (especially at large publics). If UF has budgetary issues because of a lack of tuition inflow, what you'd see is not TAs but adjuncts. Are there a lot of adjuncts at UF? A lot of adjuncts is always a bad sign, but I've seen no evidence of that at UF -- though I have no idea what's going on in the business school. (For what it's worth, my impression is that the Bright Futures scholarship program is stably funded by the state, not by starving the universities of funding. But I haven't looked into it carefully.)[/quote]

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