After a year of campaigning to raise UF tuition to the market rate, President Bernie Machen decided to lower the tuition increase request for the upcoming year from 15 percent to 9 percent.
UF President Bernie Machen announced to the school’s Board of Trustees Friday morning that he decided to lower tuition increase request for the upcoming year from 15 percent to 9 percent.
Machen said he had hoped the Florida Legislature would scale back on cuts to the university, but the state mandated UF cut $38 million from its budget for the upcoming fiscal year.
As UF nears the end of a debated and contested budgeting process, faculty members took advantage of an open debate to ask UF President Bernie Machen questions about the university’s method of budgeting.
UF administrators say budget cuts are inevitable, including the $13.4 million that might come from their own budget.
UF political science professor Leonardo Villalon will be travelling to an African region south of the Sahara Desert this summer. It’s his third time in the past two years.
UF’s Board of Trustees elected a new chairman just in time to put his name on spring graduates’ diplomas.
Board of Trustees vice-chairman David Brown, a 1973 UF alumnus and chairman of Broad and Cassel law firm, was selected to carry out the remainder of the former chairman’s term.
The chairman of the UF Board of Trustees, Carlos Alfonso, announced his resignation Friday.
On its second day of meetings at Lake Wauburg, the UF Board of Trustees discussed cutting more costs, including merging administrative and human resource services among colleges.
UF’s Board of Trustees discussed strategies for becoming a Top 10 university during a retreat at Lake Wauburg on Thursday but did not decide on a game plan.
The UF Board of Trustees approved issuing $50 million in bonds Wednesday for the expansion only.
UF student senators passed a resolution against unprecedented high tuition increases at Tuesday’s Student Senate meeting.
UF students and staff gave one last encore to late professor Paul Favini at a Monday afternoon memorial service.
Unite Party members uploaded a video to YouTube on Tuesday afternoon of Student Body presidential candidate Tj Villamil speaking about The Independent Florida Alligator.
A UF fraternity is under investigation for a reported hazing incident.
A NASA science team discovered 11 new solar systems hosting at least 26 new planets, according to a UF news release.
Eric Barron, president of Florida State University, and UF President Bernie Machen speak before the higher education committee of the Florida House of Representatives on Friday morning.
UF President Bernie Machen will join the Florida House of Representatives' education committee today in Tallahassee to discuss issues affecting Florida's state universities.
Since fall classes ended Dec. 7, UF has used its emergency alert system on two occasions. Both times, the administration was pleased with how quickly text messages were sent to students and employees.
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