(04-13-2015 01:34 PM)PirateJim Wrote:  

(04-13-2015 09:27 AM)mtmedlin Wrote:  

(04-11-2015 03:52 PM)_C2_ Wrote:  I'm surprised UNC allowed this. They're not like the educational execs in a certain state.

USF just went through something similar. We were supposed to be building a branch campus which would have been a Polytechnic. It would have added massive amounts of research and pretige to USF. In fact, we would have been almost equal to UF once it was all said and done. Essentially putting USF at the top in the state of Florida....

and then a UF graduate politician came in and used his position to split the branch campus away from USF and form a new University out of it.

I am thrilled for ECU that they are starting to get out of the grips of the UNC stranglehold. So many AAC schools have older and more powerful state universities who screw with them. This will be huge for ECU!

My brother was telling me about a new college just south of Orlando. He said it sprung up overnight. Is this the university you're talking about.

Yep, it was supposed to be USF Polytechnic university. It was to have a super modern desing that was done by a world fanous architect.... and then we got screwed... AGAIN!

People dont realize that if USF hadnt been stripped of THREE of its satellite campuses over the years (Florida Gulf Coast university, New college and Florida Polytechnic) we would be the largest University in the nation.

Florida legislatures inability to see the true potential or the outright subversion of USF has been insane.

(04-13-2015 02:48 PM)mtmedlin Wrote:  

(04-13-2015 01:34 PM)PirateJim Wrote:  

(04-13-2015 09:27 AM)mtmedlin Wrote:  

(04-11-2015 03:52 PM)_C2_ Wrote:  I'm surprised UNC allowed this. They're not like the educational execs in a certain state.

USF just went through something similar. We were supposed to be building a branch campus which would have been a Polytechnic. It would have added massive amounts of research and pretige to USF. In fact, we would have been almost equal to UF once it was all said and done. Essentially putting USF at the top in the state of Florida....

and then a UF graduate politician came in and used his position to split the branch campus away from USF and form a new University out of it.

I am thrilled for ECU that they are starting to get out of the grips of the UNC stranglehold. So many AAC schools have older and more powerful state universities who screw with them. This will be huge for ECU!

My brother was telling me about a new college just south of Orlando. He said it sprung up overnight. Is this the university you're talking about.

Yep, it was supposed to be USF Polytechnic university. It was to have a super modern desing that was done by a world fanous architect.... and then we got screwed... AGAIN!

People dont realize that if USF hadnt been stripped of THREE of its satellite campuses over the years (Florida Gulf Coast university, New college and Florida Polytechnic) we would be the largest University in the nation.

Florida legislatures inability to see the true potential or the outright subversion of USF has been insane.

Ugh..that's bad. Really bad. We definitely feel your pain here.

I could write a novel about what it took to create the Brody School of Medicine and the Dental School. We also had to go to hell and back just to get our NORMAL undergraduate programs to a respectable level...what our business and engineering programs have done and are planning are an underdog story for the ages. Raleigh and Chapel Hill want no part of the sleeping giant in Greenville. Sounds a lot like your problem in Florida.

Not to say, of course, that ECU has the ability to replicate any kind of academic legacy like what we see from UNC, but it's definitely got the ability to be the engine to drive a depressed region in different ways full of people that want to work, and have the ability to work.

We're finally, after decades, getting there.

(04-13-2015 02:48 PM)mtmedlin Wrote:  

(04-13-2015 01:34 PM)PirateJim Wrote:  

(04-13-2015 09:27 AM)mtmedlin Wrote:  

(04-11-2015 03:52 PM)_C2_ Wrote:  I'm surprised UNC allowed this. They're not like the educational execs in a certain state.

USF just went through something similar. We were supposed to be building a branch campus which would have been a Polytechnic. It would have added massive amounts of research and pretige to USF. In fact, we would have been almost equal to UF once it was all said and done. Essentially putting USF at the top in the state of Florida....

and then a UF graduate politician came in and used his position to split the branch campus away from USF and form a new University out of it.

I am thrilled for ECU that they are starting to get out of the grips of the UNC stranglehold. So many AAC schools have older and more powerful state universities who screw with them. This will be huge for ECU!

My brother was telling me about a new college just south of Orlando. He said it sprung up overnight. Is this the university you're talking about.

Yep, it was supposed to be USF Polytechnic university. It was to have a super modern desing that was done by a world fanous architect.... and then we got screwed... AGAIN!

People dont realize that if USF hadnt been stripped of THREE of its satellite campuses over the years (Florida Gulf Coast university, New college and Florida Polytechnic) we would be the largest University in the nation.

Florida legislatures inability to see the true potential or the outright subversion of USF has been insane.

Is it going to be called Florida Tech. My brother went there but it will be a completely different Florida Tech than he went to. Same name but a different school on his diploma.

Florida Tech is actually Florida Institute of Technology. This school will officially be called Florida Polytechnic. Its in the northern most section of lakeland, which is only about 20 minutes from Orlando.

I find it hillarious that they decided to open a university about halfway between USF and UCF.... I guess the 110,000 students attending the two institutions wasnt enough. Florida kills me!