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UF Student Government held a State of the Campus address on Tuesday to discuss accomplishments from the past school year and initiatives for the upcoming semester.
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UF Student Government announced Emmy-winning actress Britt Lower will be the university’s next Accent speaker. She is scheduled to take the stage on Nov. 13 at University Auditorium.
The UF Student Senate extended its regular meeting to say goodbye to departing senators and elect new leadership. In the first meeting after an unprecedented Student Government election, in which Vision Party ran as the sole major party, former Change Party members also attended to criticize the party during public comment.
Vision Party won the 49 Student Government seats up for election Tuesday night, maintaining its dominant majority in the Student Senate.
Only one Student Government party entered the Fall 2025 election. But UF students still lined up at the Reitz Student Union, Norman Education Library and other campus polling locations to cast their ballots in races that are largely uncontested.
Despite canvassing, tabling and campaigning efforts, UF Student Government elections have a low turnout rate. But among large public universities, UF isn’t alone.Student turnout for elections is historically lowIn the Fall 2024 SG election, about 10,000 UF students and graduate students cast ballots, based on data from UF SG’s Financial Reports and Results.
The UF student voter turnout for Student Government elections varies every year.
Vision Party is the only Student Government political party running in the Fall 2025 election — the first time in recent SG history.
Gainesville Police and the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office arrested 21-year-old UF political science senior Tyler Do on Tuesday for viewing and distributing child pornography.
La Asamblea Estudiantil de Hispano-Latine, un evento anual de bienvenida, continuará este año con casi la mitad del presupuesto que tuvo anteriormente, uniéndose a otras asambleas de bienvenida de la UF que perdieron su designación como Evento Insignia.
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.
Happy first week Gators, and welcome to The Swamp! Whether you’re stepping onto campus for the very first time or returning for another chapter in your journey here, I am beyond excited to greet you as this year’s Student Body president.
Vision Party celebrated a landslide victory in the Student Senate and cleared the executive ticket contest Wednesday night.
Students have the chance to decide who will fill 50 seats in the student senate representing various colleges, in addition to executive positions like student body president during the Spring 2025 Student Government elections. Voting will take place Tuesday and Wednesday.
With student government elections approaching on Feb. 25 and 26, Change, Vision and Watch Party officials have spent the month of February rolling out their platforms on social media and spreading the word across campus.
Hundreds of students were able to pay off their parking tickets by donating canned food through the UF Food for Fines program.
Across Florida, universities share the existence of student government. Though most share a structure that mirrors the United States government, not all student governments look the same structurally or culturally.
A new Student Government program will provide students the opportunity to pay off their parking citations using food donations.
Hello, my name is Austin Britton. I am a third-year graduate student in geography at UF. I am focused on climate science and equity for my research, with a background in meteorology and data science.
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