The ruling means law students won’t need to graduate from an ABA-accredited school to sit for the Florida Bar exam. Instead, schools can be accredited by other U.S. Department of Education-certified entities.
Looking around the UF campus, you might catch friends sprawled out under the shade of trees, tour groups weaving through the rush of Turlington or someone feeding the campus cats near Pugh Hall. These spots hold memories of thousands of students and faculty members, marking traditions and shaping a campus life beyond lecture halls and exams.
Harvey Ward welcomes students to Gainesville.
Saturday, 119 people gathered at Lake Alice Field at 7:30 a.m. to honor Nyla Holland, a 20-year-old animal sciences sophomore at UF and ROTC member.
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday reappointed lawyers Rahul Patel and Richard Cole to the UF Board of Trustees. The appointments are effective Jan. 7 and come amid the search for UF’s 14th president, which formally began last month.
UF officially began its search for a new president, a process expected to stretch over several months and involve intense scrutiny from stakeholders. The next president will step into the role during a time of strict oversight from the UF Board of Trustees.
Linda Stump-Kurnick, who became UF’s first female police chief in July 2003, will become the Assistant Vice President of Public Safety, according to a Wednesday UF news release.
A UF student was arrested by the Gainesville Police Department on one charge of sexual assault, six charges of battery and one charge of possessing a fake ID.
Hundreds of UF students and community members gathered in Turlington Plaza for a candlelight vigil to support Israel after Palestinian militant groups led by Hamas launched a large-scale invasion, but the vigil ended in chaos, confusion and five people injured after a commotion turned into a stampede.
Akshat Pant, a 20-year-old UF computer science junior, and Nishant Nagururu, a 19-year-old UF computer science sophomore, had a vision to design an application streamlining students’ connection with SG. The app is called Candor — meaning open, honest and sincere. Pant and Nagururu picked the name after realizing they wanted to make an app providing those qualities to the student body.
El gobernador Ron DeSantis aprobó $75 millones para el propuesto campus de UF en Jacksonville a mediados de otros vetos presupuestarios de medio millón de dólares.
UF’s first resident wasn’t a person, but a tree. Sprouting before the university was founded, a longleaf pine near Keene-Flint Hall has watched UF grow into what it is today. In April, the tree was declared dead.
OPINION: I will continue to luchar por mis estudios because I’m a bright individual who earned his place here at UF. I will not allow anyone or anything to tell me otherwise.
A former student’s lawsuit arguing UF violated its contract when it required the student body to pay for on-campus amenities despite COVID-19 restrictions will see the Florida First District Court of Appeals in Tallahassee July 20.
A sculpture dedicated to a Gainesville activist and African American studies professor will replace a confederate soldier statue that used to sit downtown.
The secret scene of organized chaos, accented with lonely Exacto knives and abandoned t-squares scattered across the atrium’s cement floor, may be unfamiliar to many UF students. But every Spring, second-year architecture majors face PIN UP, a daunting task that determines if they continue in UF’s architecture program.
UPD says its working to keep students safe on campus with more lighting, safety training and police presence
The pandemic gap left students keen to explore, connect and find their place in Gainesville whether through social media, crowded buses or places of worship.
Antes de que comenzara el semestre de otoño, Nicole Guerra no habría tenido la opción de vivir en una LLC diseñada para estudiantes como ella. Guerra y otros Gators de primera generación están haciendo historia al ser algunos de los primeros residentes en vivir en la LLC recién inaugurada.
The restaurant, previously located at 1642 W. University Ave. in Midtown, will be moved to 1026 SW Second Ave. in the Gainesville Innovation District, two blocks from UF’s campus. Construction will begin in the summer of 2021 and is expected to take 12 to 14 months.
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