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<p>The statement doesn’t really say much. Only monies given to the english department will help those in freshman english. Likewise, only monies given to the X department will help those students in department X.</p>
<p>rogracer, </p>
<p>Thanks for the article; it was great reading about gainesville. Found a couple of places I’d like to check out when I’m visiting my daughter.</p>
<p>zebes</p>
<p>Yeah…if your only source of information is these forums, [unspecified naysayers…with agendas] would have you believe gainesville is just backwater swamp and farms. No culture to be found.</p>
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If UF is considered a “Public Ivy” (Which does not exist), should schools like Dartmouth and Brown be happy to be considered on the same level as UF? Should they market themselves as the “UF of the North” like UF says they are the “Harvard of the South?” No, that would be a joke. To everyone outside of Florida FSU=UF just how like Idaho State= The University of Idaho to us. Those schools laff at UF.</p>
<p>Of course “Public Ivy” exists. It’s a term that describes selected public schools that have the academic quality comparable to an Ivy League school:</p>
<p>[Amazon.com:</a> The Public Ivies: America’s Flagship Public Universities: Howard Greene, Matthew W. Greene: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/reader/006093459X/175-2599852-0246557?_encoding=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/reader/006093459X/175-2599852-0246557?_encoding=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0)</p>
<p>It does not exist as the real Ivy League, Big 10, ACC, it is a phrase an author made up. It is not real.</p>
<p>You do realize that Ivy League is an athletic league, not an academic one, so to infer that academic excellence is relative to athletic leagues is just as “not real” as the phrase 'public ivies".</p>
<p>^ I was face-palming myself reading through the last few posts until I saw your logical one.</p>
<p>lol well said</p>
<p>gpowsang</p>
<p>Everyone understands that Ivy League is the athletic association. The schools that are also part of that association are considered to be the best academically as well. You and I know that is is very common to say “I graduated from an Ivy League school” to infer graduating from a top-notched school because all the schools in that league offer a high quality education. Saying “I graduated from an ACC school” doesn’t have the same inference because not all the schools in the ACC have the same educational quality.</p>
<p>The creator of the term “Public Ivy” uses it to mean “a public school that offers the same academic quality comparable to any of the Ivy League schools”.</p>
<p>“You do realize that Ivy League is an athletic league, not an academic one, so to infer that academic excellence is relative to athletic leagues is just as “not real” as the phrase 'public ivies”."</p>
<p>I think its obvious that I know it is an athletic league seeing that I compared it to other athletic leagues.</p>