Board of Governers continues to fight for tuition power
By DEBORAH SWERDLOW | Feb. 4, 2008The Florida Board of Governors and former U.S. Sen. Bob Graham resubmitted their tuition lawsuit against the state Legislature late Monday afternoon.
The Florida Board of Governors and former U.S. Sen. Bob Graham resubmitted their tuition lawsuit against the state Legislature late Monday afternoon.
Students across the state have joined to tell the Legislature one thing - don't mess with the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program.
As the University of Miami celebrated a multimillion-dollar state research grant, Florida public university officials remained tight-lipped about the Legislature's support of a private institution in the face of public university budget cuts.
Derek Day could be his teachers' star student or worst nightmare. They just better know who they were dealing with.
This year's class of incoming freshmen at UF survived an application process involving a record number of UF hopefuls, and all of them will find out if they got accepted on Feb. 15.
UF students and professors gathered at a candlelight vigil Monday night to honor two UF engineering students who died in a car accident Jan. 26.
UF and the University of Central Florida have teamed up to improve civic and government education in the state's middle schools.
Out of the darkness came a bejeweled purple and yellow dragon, snaking to the syncopated beat of the percussion.
UF received more than $4.7 million from the federal government Friday to promote research and support for three programs.
Dressed in Elizabethan outfits, Master Octavio de Flores and Mistress Mairi Ceilidh sat at a table playing Byzantine chess, a popular game during the 10th century.
The opponents faced off across a table of varnished wood, each silent just before the match. The referee gave the signal, and with a flurry of fists and fingers, UF's second annual rock, paper, scissors tournament began.
The UF Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering will hold a candlelight vigil tonight in memory of two UF engineering students who died last month.
When Arch Roberts had to use pen in the final round of the 2nd Annual North Florida Crossword Puzzle Tournament, he was unfazed.
Early in South Africa's apartheid era, a group of South African men formed a vocal troupe to share the beauty of their culture with the world. They wanted to spread messages of peace, love and harmony.
The UF Counseling Center appointed a new director on Friday.
A Tony Award-winning actress attracted a crowd of nearly 100 observers and aspiring actors to UF's Constans Theatre on Thursday afternoon.
Focus the Nation, a national organization that emphasizes global warming education, held a "Science of Climate Change" panel Thursday afternoon in UF's Ustler Hall Atrium to discuss possible solutions to the climate crisis.
In the past two weeks, two University of Central Florida students contracted the bacteria that can cause meningitis, putting UF health officials on "heightened alert" for possible cases at UF.
The parties registered for UF's Student Government elections on Feb. 26 and 27 will hold interviews today, Monday and Tuesday to recruit students interested in SG executive or senate seats.
A group of about 20 students of various backgrounds, including white, black, Hispanic and Asian, discussed interracial dating and its role in society Thursday night at Griffin-Floyd Hall.