UF professor reinstated after faculty union challenges layoff
It took one sentence to lay her off and one more to reinstate her.
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It took one sentence to lay her off and one more to reinstate her.
Questions have arisen recently over the payment of millions of dollars in bonuses and incentives to College of Medicine faculty while budget cuts threaten the jobs of dozens of employees and academic programs at UF.
The colleges of Nursing and Business Administration released their 10-percent budget-cut proposals on Wednesday.
Amanda Boyd, 23, who graduated from UF in December, has been charged with DUI manslaughter for a crash in September.
UF officials said Tuesday they plan to offer the Vietnamese classes taught by laid-off assistant professor Andrea Pham next year.
The undergraduate programs in UF's College of Nursing will not be eliminated under a 10 percent budget cut proposal scheduled to be released today by the college, said Tracy Wright, college spokeswoman.
Police are still searching for a suspect involved in an on-campus assault of a former UF student and employee Friday night.
A UF student and a UF employee, a husband and wife, were involved in an alleged domestic dispute Thursday night at Diamond Village, an on-campus apartment complex for married students.
Deepika Singh, president of UF start-up company Sinmat, bought a plane ticket and headed for Washington, D.C., where she was praised Monday, along with representatives from other "clean energy" companies, by President Barack Obama.
A bill that would force students to pay back Bright Futures money for classes they drop after the Drop/Add period would save the state about $47 million in 2009-2010, according to a new cost estimate.
The undergraduate programs in the College of Education will not be eliminated next academic year under a draft of a 10 percent budget cut proposal presented Friday by Catherine Emihovich, dean of the college.
UF may continue offering Vietnamese classes next year after assistant professor Andrea Pham, who was scheduled to be laid off in June, was ordered to be reinstated by an arbitrator about a week ago.
A robber is still on the loose after he stole prescription medication from a 50-year-old man earlier this week.
UF student Starr Bishop died Saturday from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. She was 21.
The departments of religion, geological sciences, and communication sciences and disorders would see substantial cuts and faculty layoffs under a budget proposal unveiled Wednesday by College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean Paul D'Anieri.
UF was ordered to reinstate assistant professor Andrea Pham, who was to be laid off in June as part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences $6 million budget cut.
UF's Board of Trustees, the university's highest governing body, approved federally mandated identity theft prevention measures at Tuesday's meeting.
After passing plans to request more than $100 million in federal earmarks and hiking dorm rent and parking decal prices Tuesday, UF's Board of Trustees listened to impassioned pleas from UF's graduate assistant and faculty unions about low stipends and possible layoffs.
At Monday's Board of Trustees meetings, plans to request over $100 million in federal earmarks for research in 2009-2010 as well as plans to hike dorm rental rates and parking decal prices were approved by various committees of the board.
The success of UF's sports teams has led some students and faculty members to wonder why the University Athletic Association can't step in and rescue UF's academic programs from big budget cuts next year.