When President-elect Barack Obama takes office in January, the expectations and challenges will be massive. They are so huge, in fact, that Americans need to let reality set in or they are in for a major disappointment. No president past or present could make our problems go away in a short period of time. There's too much to repair that were years in the making. Still, there are a couple of things that must be done, even if the payoff is down the road a ways. ...more

November 30, 2008

Today the Florida Board of Governors will consider a proposal to involve itself in the annual evaluations of university presidents. ...more

November 20, 2008

With each announced departure of a high-profile Florida university professor for Texas, Wisconsin, Illinois, Louisiana, Virginia, Ohio, and so on, we can see the longstanding plans for a high-technology Interstate 4 corridor disintegrate at our feet. ...more

July 13, 2008

The Rattler Nation has reason to be proud. Florida A&M University survived one of its greatest challenges last week when the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools lifted the probation imposed for serious accounting and management shortcomings. Last Thursday's announcement that SACS was satisfied with FAMUs reforms came as a result of hard work. This great institution had to confront its weaknesses and find ways to overcome them. ...more

June 30, 2008

It's interesting to note that among the nine Florida community colleges which joined a pilot program to create a new state college system in which two-year institutions becomes ones granting four-year degrees, every school had dropped the word "community" from its name. ...more

June 8, 2008

Now is the time to recognize the critical contributions private nonprofit and for-profit, regionally accredited colleges and universities have made over the years, and more importantly, their great potential in being part of the solution to the financial woes currently beleaguering Florida's higher education system. ...more

December 6, 2007