Noam Chomsky, a prominent political activist and respected Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguistics professor, was met with a standing ovation both before and after his speech Tuesday night.
UF was awarded roughly $1.7 million last week after the Board of Governors authorized the release of Florida’s performance funding.
The first two professors have been chosen for the UF Foundation’s brand-new Preeminence Term Professorships.
UF will house the country’s first fully online, public four-year bachelor’s degree program after the Board of Governors passed its business plan Friday.
Lake Wauburg saw a step-down and a breakdown at the UF Board of Trustees retreat Thursday and Friday.
Last week, Florida’s Board of Governors approved a $25 million bond package request for a disability-friendly residence hall.
On the most polarizing scientific issues like climate change, more knowledge does not necessarily lead to more agreement. Or so said science communication theorist and Yale law professor Dan Kahan when he gave the first presentation Wednesday for the 2013-2014 Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere Speaker Series, “‘Civil’ Society?”
Professors dimming the lights and reading off PowerPoint slides is nothing new to college students, but a new study from Northwestern University states a teacher’s underperformance might be due to tenure.
UF plans to build a $25 million, 82,000-square-foot residence hall that would include 35 spaces for students with high levels of physical disabilities.
Despite Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s efforts to the contrary, tuition will increase this Fall.
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The search has been suspended: President Bernie Machen isn’t leaving UF right now.
A ranking has named higher education professors the least stressful job for 2013, much to the outrage of academia.
UF President Bernie Machen is staying in Gainesville at the request of Gov. Rick Scott and UF Board of Trustees Chair David Brown.
The applications may not all be in, but UF’s 12th president will be selected next month.
At the most recent Presidential Search Committee meeting, chairman David Brown asked members to reserve the weekends of Dec. 7 through Dec. 9 and Jan. 10 through Jan. 12 for possible candidate interviews.
Four months after UF President Bernie Machen announced he will step down from his post next year, nobody is sure who will replace him.
UF President Bernie Machen acknowledged the Morrill Act’s role in establishing UF and addressed the university’s U.S. News and World Report rankings.
When www.RateMyProfessors.com released its annual rankings last month, UF did not claim a spot on the Top 25 Professors, Top 10 Hottest Professors or Top 25 Universities lists.
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