After calling off the search for a new dean of UF's College of Engineering in March because of budgeting problems, UF formed a new committee earlier this month to try again.
In September, UF provost Joe Glover said he would wait for a sign that times were getting better before resuming the search.
Although the budget situation has not improved since then, Glover wrote in an e-mail that UF won't wait any longer.
"The search cannot be postponed indefinitely, and, since the nation's budget problems may take some time to resolve, we need to move ahead," he wrote.
Glover said he hopes to find a new dean by summer. The current dean, Pramod Khargonekar, whose resignation was announced in December of 2007, stated that he would serve as dean through the rest of the academic year.
