UF students celebrated Latinx culture at the Hispanic-Latinx Student Assembly Wednesday night in the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom. UF President Kent Fuchs welcomed the crowd and keynote speaker, BuzzFeed’s “Pero Like” Julissa Calderon, a 2011 UF alumna.
The challenge, proposed by UF President Kent Fuchs, lets students win awards like T-shirts.
President Kent Fuchs reflects on UF's recent goals and what's in store
The Chronicle of Higher Education has compiled data reports on public university officials’ wages since 2010. On Monday, the publication released its latest study.
UF will have its first chief diversity officer July 9 after a year in the national spotlight due to racially charged incidents.
Being a college student, professor or staff member can make for a demanding work day and stress. Beyond your to-do list, there’s other duties you might have to tackle. There’s family life and friends. There are also other errands, chores or side hustles.
The marshal who was caught on video pushing students during a graduation ceremony has been placed on paid administrative leave, according to UF spokesperson Margot Winick.
Nafeesah Attah planned to do a traditional dance move called a duck walk – by waving her arms up and squatting while stomping her feet – as she walked across the graduation stage Saturday afternoon. That is, until an administrator grabbed her and forced her to stop.
The forwarded email from the UF president came with a request.
A package of fruit cups, two cans, a pack of soap and box of macaroni and cheese gathering dust in Valentina Eslava’s kitchen cabinet since Hurricane Irma got her out of paying a $250 parking citation fee.
Fuchs announced that UF would have an amnesty program for parking tickets.
Ben Nichols expected to research seedless mandarins for another year. Instead, he’ll be forced to wrap up his studies in three months.
The UF Board of Trustees unanimously selected an Iranian immigrant as its next next chairman, in a meeting last Friday.
The UF Athletic Association has announced plans to build a new baseball stadium off Hull Road, near the Ronald R. Dizney Lacrosse Stadium, by 2020.
The UF Board of Trustees will vote on continuing with designs of a $250 million central energy plan and construction of a $50 million baseball stadium today.
UF President Kent Fuchs will donate up to $10,000 of his own money for Dance Marathon 2018.
UF’s campus is getting brighter.
UF President Kent Fuchs said on Thursday UF was trying to find the best place for Other Personnel Services, or OPS, workers in the employee classification system.
As part of my many evening events this week, I am having dinner with the brothers of the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity.
My friend Bob is a pessimist. Bob was a senior leader at another university for many years. No matter what opportunities or challenges that university faced, Bob was pessimistic about the outcome. During the years Bob reported to me, I frequently chided him on his persistent pessimism, which had a negative impact on those with whom he worked. His response was always that he was a short-term pessimist, but a long-term optimist.
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