Machen announces $47 million in UF budget cuts
By KATIE SANDERS | May 6, 2008UF President Bernie Machen announced on Monday long-awaited plans to slash the university's budget by $47 million.
UF President Bernie Machen announced on Monday long-awaited plans to slash the university's budget by $47 million.
UF officials announced Friday that Joe Glover, interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will become UF's provost starting in July.
UF President Bernie Machen announced on Monday long-awaited plans to slash the university's budget by $47 million.
On Tuesday, UF President Bernie Machen accepted the recommendations from a committee created after University Police officers Tasered a UF student at a campus speech.
As the UF community braces for the announcement of long-anticipated budget cuts, officials have confirmed that despite UF's efforts, some faculty and staff won't have jobs at the university next year.
Equipment-use fees that UF piloted this semester in four colleges will be made available across the university this fall as part of a larger effort to generate funds in light of major budget cuts.
At the beginning of the fall, all it took was two clicks from UF's home page to call up your favorite UF trustee and ask him or her your burning question. But not today.
UF Provost Janie Fouke, who announced her resignation from her post about a month ago, has been selected as one of six public candidates for the chancellor position at Louisiana State University.
A UF council made recommendations to clean up a textbook-royalty policy for UF faculty members who assign books they authored in courses they teach.
In reaction to the UF College of Medicine controversy over who has the final authority to admit medical school applicants, the college's Faculty Council has formed a subcommittee to better define the admissions process.
A UF official is calling for a review of the College of Medicine's dean's decision to admit a student over the objections of the selections committee and after he reportedly had not taken the standardized medical admissions examination.
After a search complicated by budget cuts and administrative changes, Paul D'Anieri, an associate dean from the University of Kansas, was selected as the new dean for UF's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
After a year and a half of research and debate, the student health insurance committee at UF has agreed on a new insurance plan, which is set to begin in August.
Officials from UF's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences said the college would be unable to make the 6 percent budget cut UF President Bernie Machen asked each college to prepare for earlier this semester.
UF research projects were given more than $3 million in grants from the Florida Legislature, the Board of Governors announced on Wednesday.
Due to a lack of consensus among committee members, the dean search committee for UF's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences submitted a recommendation to the provost that doesn't endorse any specific action.
While the Gators were busy dismantling the Buckeyes and climbing to the top as football national champions last year, UF's television spot was also beating its peers in terms of diversity.
After collecting faculty feedback this week, the UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean search committee will meet to make its final recommendation to the provost today.
For years, Florida's public universities have contributed tens of thousands of dollars to the Board of Governors at its request, but Florida State University will not comply this year with a system one lawmaker deemed "soft extortion."
Instead of making a recommendation to the provost at its Friday meeting, the dean search committee for UF's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences decided to gather faculty input for one more week.