If vindictive, influential Florida Sen. JD Alexander, the Senate Budget Committee chairman, has his way, the USF budget would be gutted and an independent Florida Polytechnic will open this fall. If that were to happen, his true, lame-duck legacy would be realized: A chastened, diminished USF and Florida Polynothing.
The latter is what you get with a faculty-students-board of trustees-board of governors-benchmarks-be-damned, unaccredited institution sans students and absent buildings. If this should stand, USF could establish an endowed chair in political retaliation and arrogance in the reviled name of Alexander the Grate.