{"id":6707,"date":"2012-04-26T10:30:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=6707"},"modified":"2012-04-26T07:43:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T11:43:28","slug":"university-of-florida-drops-plan-to-restructure-computer-engineering-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/04\/26\/university-of-florida-drops-plan-to-restructure-computer-engineering-department\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Florida Drops Plan To Restructure Computer Engineering Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_611\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/08\/09\/florida-stocked-with-college-values\/300px-gville_uf_century_tower01\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-611\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-611\" title=\"300px-Gville_UF_Century_Tower01\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/08\/300px-Gville_UF_Century_Tower01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/08\/300px-Gville_UF_Century_Tower01.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/08\/300px-Gville_UF_Century_Tower01-220x293.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Ebyabe \/ Wikipedia.org<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Century Tower at the University of Florida<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The University of Florida is scrapping a plan to trim and restructure its computer science and engineering department, according to the Gainesville Sun.<\/p>\n<p>School president Bernie Machen cited &#8220;overwhelming negative response.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/jp\/university-of-florida-to-cut-computer-science-department\/\"><em>Forbes<\/em> story<\/a> about the proposed cuts made waves on social media sites (though the story misstated <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/jp\/is-the-university-of-florida-cutting-computer-science-half-true\/\">some of the facts<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an email to faculty and staff, Machen said the department chairmen of computer and information science and engineering (CISE) and electrical and computer engineering have developed the framework of a new plan for a joint organization of the two departments.<\/p>\n<p>The interim chairman of CISE, Gerhard Ritter, said he hoped faculty would see the plan as a good alternative.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully, the vast majority will see that it&#8217;s an opportunity instead of a negative,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Faculty and students were concerned the idea could surface again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Florida is scrapping a plan to trim and restructure its computer science and engineering department, according to the Gainesville Sun. School president Bernie Machen cited &#8220;overwhelming negative response.&#8221; A Forbes story about the proposed cuts made waves on social media sites (though the story misstated some of the facts.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[1036,1040,1082],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6711,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707\/revisions\/6711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}