Dorm community for first-generation students announced for Fall 2021
In Fall 2021, UF will open a Living Learning Community for first-generation UF students to access academic support and community.
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In Fall 2021, UF will open a Living Learning Community for first-generation UF students to access academic support and community.
Former U.S. Senators Bill Nelson and Mel Martinez reunited to emphasize bipartisanship and civic engagement during a virtual Accent Speakers Bureau event Monday evening.
A string of early voting events called the Gainesville community to action
LGBTQ students looking to live on campus will soon have access to UF’s first gender-neutral housing in a new Living Learning Community.
Some COVID-19 positive and off-campus students couldn’t vote in the Student Government elections after receiving their absentee ballots late or not at all.
Six feet and computer screens haven’t stopped fantasy game players from connecting in their worlds of spells and creatures.
UF Student Government’s current majority party, Gator Party, dominated the elections Wednesday night, winning 37 of the 50 Senate seats. Independent candidates won the two seats that it ran for and one seat remains vacant.
While students voted on the first day of Student Government elections, protestors gathered outside Reitz Student Union against the building’s namesake, J. Wayne Reitz, a former UF president and segregationist.
Two Senate candidates decided to run for UF Senate seats without any party affiliation, despite the unusually high number of party options in this Student Government election.
This Student Government election, students can choose between more club funding, defunding University Police Department, changing the name of Reitz Student Union, increasing student tickets for home football games and many more platform points.
More than 200,000 Americans are dead and the U.S. president is in the hospital with COVID-19, but UF students partied on.
Early voting for UF Student Government elections opened Monday on the second floor of the Reitz Student Union, but few physical signs were posted letting students know about the polling station.
Polling places are potential COVID-19 transmission points, which is pushing some students away from the UF Student Government election in-person voting. An online alternative was denied by the UF provost Sept. 21, adding to the long fight for online voting.
The Student Government Senate minority party, Inspire Party, is not running for election this Fall, but Level Up, a non-affiliated, newly-formed party is, along with four others.
A Monday night fire at Norman Hall is under investigation — only two days after a maintenance tractor caused a fire at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.
Anita Hill, a lawyer, women’s rights activist and Brandeis University professor, believes 2020 is the year of vision, where the nation began to see each other's suffering.
Students interested in running for Student Government Senate this Fall election can begin registering Friday.
UF Accent Speakers Bureau will pay Anita Hill, lawyer and Brandeis University professor, $30,000 in student fees for her virtual event on Thursday, according to the event contract.
UF Fall fraternity rush week will be held completely virtually due to COVID-19.
A Student Government party that fell apart in Spring is back with the same leader. Two new parties will appear for the first time on the SG ballot.