Scott Appointee to University of Florida Board of Trustees Wants Graduate Education FCAT
During questioning for UF President Bernie Machen, this interesting exchange took place:
Machen last year created a committee that evaluated UF doctoral programs using a national study and university measures such as percentage admitted and time to degree, finding many of them lag behind comparable programs at peer institutions.
Trustee Michael Heekin, another Scott appointee and health care executive, asked why there were no measures of what graduate students have learned.
Machen said the most rigorous examination of students happens at the graduate level and that at some point it has to be assumed that faculty are responsible for determining students have mastered subjects.
“There’s no FCAT for graduate education,” Machen said, referring to the state test for public school
