UF students lined up at polling stations early Wednesday for the second and last day of Student Government elections. By the time polls close this evening, students will have decided which party will define campus policy.
The UF Board of Trustees unanimously approved an unspecified compensation package for UF’s next president Tuesday.
Vision, Change and Watch Party spent the beginning of the Spring semester unspooling their plans to rebuild DEI initiatives on campus, remedy food insecurity and affordable housing issues and reform elections to ensure transparency and accountability. Now, 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.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, students will vote on Student Body President, vice president, treasurer and 50 student senators representing academic colleges. Election results are announced late Wednesday.
Santa Fe College has yet to disburse more than one-third of its financial aid for the Spring semester, leaving some students in economic limbo and others still waiting on their aid from last Fall.
UF indefinitely paused all activities in six non-academic Living Learning Communities Feb. 17, just days after the Trump administration’s Office for Civil Rights banned the consideration of race in any decisions made by academic institutions nationwide.
For Venezuelan students at the University of Florida, the uncertainty surrounding Temporary Protected Status is a heavy burden, bringing deep emotional challenges as they grapple with what lies ahead.
UF could lose tens of millions of dollars in research funding this year if a change to the National Institutes of Health's grant distribution policy survives a wave of legal challenges.
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.
UF professors shared their romantic journeys leading them into the Swamp. Gainesville became a loving home for these couples.
As the demolitions of Maguire Village and University Village South loom, UF graduate students are rallying to save the once-bustling communities. But for former UVS resident Carmen Valero-Aracama, the demolitions pose an additional loss: a memorial of her husband.
In a response to the Florida Auditor General’s recently released findings on former UF President Ben Sasse identifying overall unnecessary spending, the university defended itself with a seven-page memo.
In the middle of the academy’s most recent admissions cycles, UF abruptly removed First Fall as an option. The move has left prospective students and their parents feeling duped.
Over 200 UF students fell victim to an influx of flu diagnoses from last month amid a record-breaking cold weather spike last month, which forced people to stay indoors and made conditions optimal for the flu to spread.
Bart Knowles was sworn in as UF Police Department chief Monday morning. Knowles has served as interim chief since June after his predecessor, Linda Stump-Kurnick, was promoted to a position in central administration.
The Board of Governors, a majority of which are appointees of Gov. Ron DeSantis, voting month to purge UF’s general education catalog from more than 1,200 courses to just under 300.
While the Eaton and Palisades fires in Los Angeles County occurred more than 2,400 miles away from Gainesville, their impacts have been felt by students at the University of Florida.
All diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility activities required of federal funding in grants will cease at UF, according to an email sent by the university’s Vice President for Research, David Norton.
Gov. Ron DeSantis has said he won’t get involved in UF’s presidential search. But under a recent rule, the state university system’s Board of Governors, seven of whom are DeSantis appointees, must approve UF’s presidential finalists before they’re publicly announced.
A preliminary report from the Florida Auditor General found UF failed to prevent former President Ben Sasse from leveraging his executive privileges to inappropriately spend university funds.
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