<p>I was a page for one week in the state senate 2 years ago. One thing I learned is not to be stupid enough to stand between a trial lawyer and a medical doctor in a capitol elevator during legislative session.</p>
<p>Rofl ^^^</p>
<p>CC is so much fun. :)</p>
<p>You just never know who’s on the other side of the conversation.</p>
<p>Sunny, pretty soon posters will start presenting aches and pains… 
For me, I’ll merely want a medical synopsis of the latest “House” episode.</p>
<p>Thank you for the enlightening and candid responses. I’m honored to have member of the College of Medicine at FSU respond to my post. You never know who you are talking with! It’s great to know that professors and faculty members are reading post of the schools they represent. Kudos!</p>
<p>I don’t really see what distance has to do with anything… Schools have dorms, and apartments nearby… live in them. A Florida school is a Florida school… Bright Futures and other Florida grants and scholarships will apply to any Florida school… I will have to travel a very long distance to get to FSU, and that isn’t stopping me.</p>
<p>Larryw09 i hope you go to college you find out that they dont give that many scholarships for gradutes. Sunnyflorida im not gonna fight with you because you have more experience than me on the subject, but its good to see that a member of such a prestigous school like FSUs med program is in CC. In miami people feel as if south florida does not get as much representation as the rest of florida, i mean we are the second largest city in Florida, and yet it is only now that they are creating a Med school here. Here in miami people feel that FIUs med school is only the beginning in the road to improve Miami’s education system (HS and University), in fact you can see that because they also created a college of Law recently.</p>
<p>I read and post as a parent of an FSU freshman and another that is a HS junior. But when the need arises, I add my expertise!</p>
<p>Im sure every one here thanks you, really.</p>
<p>Add the unnecessary law schools at FIU and FAMU to the list. </p>
<p>The gift that keeps on taking!</p>
<p>You vote for our medical school and we’ll vote for you law school.
The taxpayers of the state of Florida thank you. </p>
<p>I also think there is a Chiropractic school floating around someplace awaiting some pork.</p>
<p>Miami deserves it because almost half of the people in Florida live in Miami (actually is 1/4)</p>
<p>Miami has a law school; two in fact:
Florida State University - College of Law
University of Florida - College of Law </p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>Yeah but the university which they belong is not in Miami</p>
<p>I’m missing something here… Please correct me if I am wrong or I have misunderstood.</p>
<p>First of all, why would students in Miami NEED to have a law or medical school IN Miami? Are the majority of the med or law students at UF from Gainesville? I think not- they come from elsewhere. Ditto for FSU. There is a school in Tampa, so it was the only major city to have a med school until recently. Seems like students in Miami need to travel beyond the Miami-Dade County border to get the education they want if UMiami is not realistic. That’s what people everywhere else do.</p>
<p>Also, someone (don’t remember who) mentioned that a med school in Miami would improve HS education in that city? So, let me understand- Use the money to build a med school rather than adequately fund the woefully inadequately funded public school system?</p>
<p>I’m sorry- none of this makes sense to me.</p>
<p>If there is any place in America that needs lawyers, it is probably Miami-Dade. Heck, hasn’t everyone seen the movie Scarface or the tv shows Miami Vice and CSI-Miami? Miami has a crying need just for prosecuters, defense lawyers and judges doing criminal law alone. </p>
<p>Private law schools in Miami-Dade area include: Nova Law in Dania, St. Thomas University Law, University of Miami law, and the state law school at FIU. There is another new law school over in Naples too, Ave Maria Law. One of the justifications for FIU law school was to increase number of Hispanic lawyers in Florida–kinda like FAMU law being justified to increase number of African-American lawyers in Florida.</p>
<p>Involvedmom it is true what you said, the problem is that MOST of florida’s universities are located in the north, thats the reason why i said that there are no major PUBLIC universities in SOUTH FLORIDA. Any way miami needs more doctors and lawyers than any other metropolitant area in Florida. Also i did not say that a med school would help HS education, i said that the government of miami is trying to invest more money on HS and University programs.</p>
<p>The Florida Board of Regents was abolished by an act of the Florida State Legislature that was signed into law by Governor Jeb Bush on July 1, 2001.
Bob Graham, a United States Senator from Florida, objected to the abolition of the statewide higher education body (Board of Regents), and responded by leading a ballot initiative to restore it.
This initiative succeeded in creating what is now called the Florida Board of Governors. The Board of Governors, as part of the Florida Constitution, cannot be abolished without another constitutional amendment.</p>
<p>So why was the Board of Regents abolished?
Because Chancellor Herbert and the board opposed FSU’s school of medicine and FAMUS college of Law!</p>
<p>In the meantime, the politicos managed to push thru additional unneeded schools of medicine at FIU and UCF as well as a law school at FIU.
Might as well throw in the Johnnie Byrd Alzheimers Institute at USF.</p>
<p>Too bad we as taxpayers are stuck having to pay for these schools forever while the state continues to cut funding to the Universitys.</p>
<p>At least some sanity has returned with the creation of the Board of Governors.</p>
<p>I am sorry for you guys but last time i noticed most of Florida’s income comes from MIAMI, so dont tax payer money me.</p>
<p>The creation of the FSU College of Medicine was [url=<a href=“http://www.flsenate.gov/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch1004/SEC42.HTM&Title=->2002->Ch1004->Section%2042]passed[/url”>http://www.flsenate.gov/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch1004/SEC42.HTM&Title=->2002->Ch1004->Section%2042]passed[/url</a>] by the Florida Legislature, not the Board of Governors. The FIU and UCF med programs are creations of the Board of Governors, not the Legislature. The history of FSU Med may be found [url=<a href=“http://med.fsu.edu/AboutCOM/history.asp#his]here[/url”>http://med.fsu.edu/AboutCOM/history.asp#his]here[/url</a>]. </p>
<p>Herbert stood up against the Legislature and was dismissed. You challenge the Legislature at your own risk in Florida. The Legislature strongly supports FSU Med, even over the passage of time. FSU Med’s funding per student is quite likely higher than any other med school in Florida because it fills a need the Legislature found important. The FIU and UCF med programs are weakly funded at best, because it is obvious those creations of the Board of Governors were “pork” as we like to call it in Florida, and of less importance than the creations of the Legislature.</p>
<p>The FSU Med program gets into some very old political maneuvering in Florida vis a vis the University of Florida that dates back to the late 1800s and especially the 1905 law that made FSU the “girls school” for 42 years (1905-1947) and UF the “boy’s school” for the same period. FIU and UCF are not involved in that reckoning, and are ignored for the most part.</p>
<p>It is also important to note that FSU Med was the first established med school in the United States in some 20 years.</p>
<p>It is fair to assume that the FIU and UCF med programs came in on the path cut by FSU Med, some 6 years later.</p>
<p>Wait, i do want to make it clear that i respect FSU’s medical school, i mean one of my top choices when i finish my undergrad is UF, FSU, USF, U o Chicago, and i guess FIU and UCF.</p>