"especially when state funding is so scarce and it could damage the school's reputation."
This is my alma mater (at least one of them). There's a story behind the story. The current school president is a Republican and a former speaker of the FL house during the historical Republican coup. The bill to create the chiro school was pushed by another Republican, Jim King, who apparently wanted a college named after him. This whole thing was pure political backroom dealing, and my party was guilty.
On warchant.com, the academic message board has been devoted to the outrage this scheme was causing. Alumni, boosters, the medschool faculty, students, and the general public were incensed. Everyone but the politicla kingpins knew a chiro school would only FSU in the long run. The board of trustees bowed to the political pressure. But thank-goodness the board of governors had a dose of sanity and killed the deal.
Tallahassee politics, business as usual.
Let's just hope there isn't a prominent/political alum who happens to be into aromatherapy.
I thought TK was a Democrat? Wasn't Dan Webster the first Republican speaker in like 150 years?
BTW, congrats on Antone Smith and Rouse today...