UF Student Senate passes new RTS resolution
(15 hours ago)
The UF Student Senate passed a bill Tuesday recognizing student support for restoring RTS funding cuts made this year.
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UF has an interim president. What’s in his $2 million contract?
(19 hours ago)
This week, UF published the contract for Interim President Donald W. Landry. It includes a $2 million base salary and outlines diversity, equity and inclusion restrictions, administrative efficiency and artificial intelligence initiatives.
Our goal should be dignity for the people and the environment
(09/09/25 6:23pm)
Alligator Alcatraz, Florida’s contested new immigration detention center, is set to be empty within days. The facility, built in the middle of the Florida Everglade, has been the subject of at least three lawsuits since construction began.
UF return-to-work policy sparks commute chaos, staff ‘disillusionment’
(09/07/25 11:58pm)
Long traffic backups and packed parking lots have become the norm for UF employees after the university’s full return-to-work mandate took effect in August.
A message from Gainesville Regional Utilities' CEO
(09/07/25 7:58pm)
This is the first experience many college students will have with a utility company, so my staff and I are committed to making it a great one.
Why you should vote YES on Local Public Utilities Nov. 4
(09/07/25 7:49pm)
Why is local control important?
Social media vetting is now part of the visa application process
(09/06/25 4:57pm)
Social media surveillance is now a matter of national security.
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(09/06/25 4:47pm)
Government agencies are watching immigrants’ social media more closely, which makes many people afraid to post online, causing censorship.
Alachua teachers left ‘uncertain’ after national English language-learning rollbacks
(09/04/25 11:28pm)
For nearly a decade, Kevin Kelsey has taught English to Alachua County students. Now, as he begins another year at Gainesville High School, he fears federal policy changes are eroding protections for English language learners.
The real victory on University Avenue: Our students coming home safe
(09/04/25 2:00pm)
It wasn’t an award I ever wanted us to win. The motivation for those wide, flat-topped mounds, or speed tables, on University Avenue was born from gut-wrenching losses — the tragic, preventable deaths of Maggie Paxton and Sophia Lambert, two bright young students.
UF faculty and students question the Office of Sustainability’s closure
(09/02/25 10:00am)
UF closed its Office of Sustainability after almost 20 years of service Aug. 4, citing a focus of efficiency.
Beloved UF campus cat Tenders bounces back after brief injury
(08/30/25 10:00pm)
UF students can usually find Tenders the cat sunbathing near Tolbert Hall or wandering in nearby woods. Judging by her bright eyes, swaying tail and playful jumping, it might seem like she doesn’t have a care in the world.
Salsa dancing and indie rock kick off the Hispanic-Latine Student Assembly
(08/28/25 4:51pm)
Live music, low lights and Latin dancers welcomed new and returning Hispanic UF students into the Fall semester Wednesday evening.
Immigration arrests spike across Alachua County
(08/28/25 3:24pm)
Arrests made by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Alachua County have increased in recent weeks, jail records show.
Alachua County continues efforts to become a sports destination
(08/27/25 12:52pm)
Alachua County approved two plans attempting to make the county a sports destination at a meeting Tuesday.
Donald W. Landry named UF interim president as permanent search continues
(08/25/25 3:41pm)
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
UF cultural organizations push forward with welcome assemblies despite steep cuts
(08/24/25 11:41pm)
The Hispanic-Latine Student Assembly, an annual welcoming event, will go on this year with nearly half the budget it once had, joining other UF welcome assemblies that lost their Signature Event designations.
Gainesville says goodbye to rainbow crosswalks
(08/24/25 11:24pm)
In between the Alachua County Administration building and Bo Diddley Community Plaza lies a rainbow crosswalk.
UF joins a troubling trend in climate rollbacks
(08/25/25 10:30am)
On Aug. 4, UF closed the Office of Sustainability. As a UF sustainability studies student and Gainesville lead organizer for genCLEO, a youth-led climate justice organization, I am both concerned and appalled by this decision. I have seen firsthand how coordinated climate action and resiliency efforts transform communities. Now, UF is dismantling the very office that makes such progress possible.
‘Breaking Bad’ star Bryan Cranston cooks up a crowd at UF speaker event
(08/22/25 2:22pm)
On the first day of classes, students lined up and waited in the Gainesville heat to see the man who played a chemistry teacher-turned-drug lord on TV.
