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 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.
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.
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.
Wearing a Gator Party T-shirt and khaki shorts, Ryan Moseley sat calmly on his couch with about a week left in his Reitz Union office.
UF student senators voted against a bill that would create a socially responsible investment advisory board at UF on Tuesday's Student Senate meeting.
Floridance, UF's student-run dance company, invites the community to get "Caught in the Movement" and get caught doing a good deed on Sunday.
Curiosity led Mary Katherine Smith to the opportunity of a lifetime - the chance to spin that famous wheel.
Put down your textbooks, grab your sneakers and get ready to run.
Reservations for the Arredondo Room in the Reitz Union will be postponed, and the entire fourth floor will be closed this summer as remodeling plans are finalized.
As checking e-mail and surfing social-networking sites have become compulsive for many college students, professors around the country - and at UF - have begun limiting laptop use in classrooms.
More than 800 students responded to a survey that asked if they would be willing to pay 50 cents per credit hour to finance sources of renewable energy on campus. Results are in, and more than 80 percent said "Yes."
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.
As the United States enters the sixth year of the war in Iraq, a UF organization wants to install a memorial for local veterans who have served the country in the past 63 years.
At age 16, Lynn Bailey represented her home state of South Carolina in a nationwide 4-H competition for her research on nutrition and healthy dieting.
When Katie Krasne, a UF freshman, went out Saturday night, all she wanted was her family.
Signs of Life, a UF student-run performance troupe, will merge hip-hop, acting, dancing, video, graffiti and more into an hour-long performance Monday and Tuesday in its new show, "Reaching Through the Static."