One can only hope that within the coming decades that UNF will evolve into a major research university.
Great cities flourish via their great research universities and the intellectual stimuli of its faculty, student body and alumni.
We all know graduates from UNF, how many of them have intellectual curiosity and think outside of the box?
They really need to be intellectually challenged, however, it's most difficult when so few are up to the challenge.
With this said, UNF is still a small regional safety school at this point in its history, it can evolve into so much more only if its leadership and the good people of Jacksonville expect / demand more from them.