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and I suggest that students who are supportive of these other students, and disagree with the conduct of the university administration, apply for admission to other universities, transfer their credits and, most importantly for their desire to have an impact on the university itself, remove all of that annual student loan/student aid money from the coffers of UF.

Sometimes in activism it is more effective to withdraw from attending/financially benefiting an institution than to try and remain inside and fight for change while being patted on the head and given empty rhetoric from the people running the institution.

Protesting on campus may draw media attention for you and for a moment or so give you visibility but believe me when I say the administration at most of these colleges are far more impacted by financial moves than they are anything else. When good professors leave and the ranking of a degree from that school slips it factors into student enrollment and money to the university. For example UW-Madison had for years been one of the top schools in the rankings by US News and others. The year before Scott Walker took office and began gutting the university it ranked 13th. By the end of his first term it ranked 47th. We have now fought our way back up a little to 35th and could be even better but we still are in something of a stranglehold by the GQP.

So if I'm hiring a candidate and they both have equivalent GPA and course background I'm going to be more in favor, other things being equal, of the candidate from the school ranked 13th as opposed to 47th. When the gap is that large it has to be recognized as a factor in evaluating the quality of the education/degree.