PUBLISHED ON WARCHANT ON 8/1/2000
Journalism School
By Dynasty Nole Date: 8/1/2000 Florida State now has a medical school but what about a journalism school? There was such a school at one time but it was eliminated because UF already had a journalism school. Perhaps it's time FSU got their school back. |
College of Journalism and Mass Communications?
Recently Jeb Bush signed into law the new Florida State University Medical School. This is the first new medical school to open in the United States in over 20 years. This is the academic equivalent to winning a handful of national championships, and I might add, LONG overdue.
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The last 10-15 years have been the best Florida State University has seen academically. The first capital campaign began the greatest increases our endowment has ever seen. The National Magnetic Lab was established, Dr. Robert Holton patented the artificial synthesis of Taxol, the current entering freshman class averages close to a 3.8 GPA and 1200 SAT, and it seems like it has only begun. Loyal Florida State University supporters might ask what is next on the board to continue the academic improvement of our university. A tough question indeed.
The university needs improvement in it's endowment, additional academic offerings, better support of current programs, increased scholarships, investments in technology, and many other areas. Recently though, many FSU supporters have called for the creation of a School of Journalism. The irony in this is that many decades ago, FSU did have a School of Journalism.
In 1949, the Florida State School of Journalism was established. Roughly a decade later the Board of Controls (now the Board of Regents) decided to eliminate the school. The reasons for this are sketchy at best and not well documented. The official reason was to eliminate "duplication" (at the time UF also had a School of Journalism). When was the last college eliminated at UF?
The university needs improvement in it's endowment, additional academic offerings, better support of current programs, increased scholarships, investments in technology, and many other areas. Recently though, many FSU supporters have called for the creation of a School of Journalism. The irony in this is that many decades ago, FSU did have a School of Journalism.
In 1949, the Florida State School of Journalism was established. Roughly a decade later the Board of Controls (now the Board of Regents) decided to eliminate the school. The reasons for this are sketchy at best and not well documented. The official reason was to eliminate "duplication" (at the time UF also had a School of Journalism). When was the last college eliminated at UF?
The Tallahassee Democrat wrote on this subject back in 1973 calling for the reinstatement of the FSU School of Journalism. An Opportunity for FSU.