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Post by FIJIGabe on Apr 3, 2007 10:36:35 GMT -5
this is literally an argument about who uses their "wang" better than the other. ladies and gentlemen... WHO CARES!
want to compare, compare substantive programs... football (for now, FAU), medical school (FIU), law school (FIU). i'm sure there are things both schools excel in, and that's what the focus needs to be on.
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Post by FAU on Apr 3, 2007 11:48:52 GMT -5
FAU already has students enrolled in its medical program. Construction of the teaching hospital will begin in less than a year. It will be on the main campus and it will be state of the art.
Football will be better for some time as will basketball and baseball.
I do not believe FAU has any plans for a law school. As far as I am concerned, thats great!!!!! FAU seems to be focusing on engineering and bio sciences.
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Post by FIUFanatic on Apr 3, 2007 12:31:14 GMT -5
Yeah right....
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Post by FAUisPosing on Apr 9, 2007 18:35:57 GMT -5
FAU already has students enrolled in its medical program. Construction of the teaching hospital will begin in less than a year. It will be on the main campus and it will be state of the art. Football will be better for some time as will basketball and baseball. I do not believe FAU has any plans for a law school. As far as I am concerned, thats great!!!!! FAU seems to be focusing on engineering and bio sciences. But it will not be an FAU degree. FAU does not have it's own medical school, you guys are piggy backing on UM's name. Just another example of scUM tapping into state funds by teaming with you Owls. |
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Post by Guest on Apr 9, 2007 23:20:26 GMT -5
Yep, that teaching hospital might as well be on the campus of Palm Beach Atlantic or Miami-Dade. FAU will be able to channel undergrads into the program but will not have a med school nor are they likely to ever have a med school. FIU on the other hand has both a med school and a law school, two important factors in becoming a major national university. FAU has neither. Some departments at FAU will be stronger in the near future because they can devote more funds to things like ocean engineering but in the long run, law and med school alumni donations plus the research money to be gained will push FIU ahead on the national scene. I don't see football or any other sport being a major factor for either school.
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Post by yippee on Apr 10, 2007 1:06:09 GMT -5
I work at the Law School!!!  |
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Post by FAU on Apr 10, 2007 8:33:01 GMT -5
Yep, that teaching hospital might as well be on the campus of Palm Beach Atlantic or Miami-Dade. FAU will be able to channel undergrads into the program but will not have a med school nor are they likely to ever have a med school. FIU on the other hand has both a med school and a law school, two important factors in becoming a major national university. FAU has neither. Some departments at FAU will be stronger in the near future because they can devote more funds to things like ocean engineering but in the long run, law and med school alumni donations plus the research money to be gained will push FIU ahead on the national scene. I don't see football or any other sport being a major factor for either school. You might be right but FAU has two of the largest U.S. bio med reseach institutes as partners. Torry Pines and Scripps. Scripps is actually on one of our campuses. Torrey Pines is currently using one of our facilities but is building a facility of their own. If it is research $ you are talking about, this will be a major factor. FAU is also working to aquire another 500 acre campus. Harbor Branch Institute in Ft Pierce. This will become part of FAU. They are located on the ocean similar to Sea Tech. FAU already as a facility on the campus. This campus will be used for ocean reseach. This campus by itself is larger in acreage than the main campus of FIU and is almost as large as both campuses. So in terms of research money, FAU will clearly be the leader in that respect. This is all brand new and is still working to get up to speed. The med school was a solution to graduate more doctors as is needed in S Florida. This was a solution that didn't cost the state $250,000,000.00. We have a medical program on campus through an already reputable program. This is producing the doctors that are needed. This fall, all med students will be able to take ALL classes on the FAU campus. All 4 years of med school. According to polls of pre-med students, there seems to be a preference to the FAU campus over the UM campus. The hospital will be on the FAU campus and not PBA or any other campus because the idea was the dream of FAU. We shall see how this works out in the long run. I have a feeling FAU will do quite well. |
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Post by FIJIGabe on Apr 10, 2007 9:36:10 GMT -5
regardless of what you think, it's not FAU's medical school. it's someone else's. the diplomas will have someone else's name on it. don't claim it as your own, if it isn't.
FIU has it's OWN medical school and law school (alumnus). we also have one of the top accounting, engineering and architecture schools in the state. and as great as your donors are in WPB, what do you think we have in Miami? we have the largest law firms in the state donating to the law school, one of the biggest hospital systems IN THE COUNTRY partnering up with OUR medical school (as well as a top-25 hospital, in Jackson), and some of the largest corporations in the US go to our engineering school (i know that Johnson & Johnson recruits from engineering). Not to mention the amount of money pumped into the accounting program from major firms.
love FAU as much as you want, don't try to win on everything.
oh, and BTW, there's no way FAU will get a law school.
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Post by FAU on Apr 10, 2007 10:09:27 GMT -5
FAU has one of the top accounting programs in the state and the nation in terms of passing the CPA test on the first try. Same criteria FIU is using for their rank. National firms recruit from FAU for offices all over the country. Atlanta has quite a few FAU grads. many working for KPMG. FAU had the top scorer on the exam in the past. National and regional accouting firms donate money to FAU's accounting dept as well as work with the program to educate students.
As far the top ranked accounting program, UF is first in the state. Not all accounting graduates take the CPA exam.
NASA and the US Navy both award research money to our engineering programs. Our ocean engineering program was the first of its kind in the country. It is internationaly recognized. Our EE dept is awarded contracts from NASA and Motorola. FAU has designed an HD camera for NASA that will be used on future shuttle flights.
We have always been strong in engineering. Students at FAU get recruited for jobs while still students.
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Post by Guest on Apr 11, 2007 14:06:59 GMT -5
Like I said, FAU has some nice programs and produces some good research; however, when you compare it to the top public universities in the country, it just doesn't have the infrastructure to go very far. You don't necessarily need a med school to be great (Berkeley) but having 100 campuses, no prominent professional schools, and being ranked #8 in a state that doesn't have many great schools is not going to get you far. I think that FIU, although it too faces many challenges, has a much higher potential of being a national power. FAU will most likely remain a regional university and would be smart to embrace that classification and focus on becoming an excellent undergrad institution with a few, strong grad programs. Don't stretch yourself too thin.
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