Budget cuts are costing UF something more valuable than $47 million - the university's prominent faculty and staff members.
Members of UF's Faculty Senate called for greater input over decisions about faculty layoffs and department shake-ups during the Senate's Thursday meeting.
A new position, the first of its kind in the United States, will soon come to the UF College of Journalism and Communications.
Student senators unanimously passed a resolution at Tuesday's meeting requesting that the UF administration consider more voices when making decisions about budget cuts.
UF's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences will face the largest monetary cuts of all UF colleges and administrative units next year, when it will lose $9.5 million and about 110 faculty and staff positions.
UF's Board of Trustees approved President Bernie Machen's plans to shrink the university's budget by $47 million on Wednesday morning, resulting in about 130 layoffs.
After $200,000 in state funds were cut from UF's Documentary Institute, supporters of the institute argue that it was unfairly targeted by the dean of the College of Journalism and Communications.
"Ladies night," "two-for-one" and "all-you-can-drink" -Gainesville bars offer all kinds of specials to college partiers. But according to a new UF study, the deals could create a cocktail for catastrophe.
Several UF departments have formed a new awareness campaign called "Think Before You Ink" to solve a large financial and environmental problem - excessive waste of paper.
Insects can't get any privacy these days.
ABC News has selected UF as one of five universities across the nation to participate in the first-ever 'ABC News on Campus' program this fall.
Dr. Joseph V. Simone was named director of UF Shands Cancer Center and physician-in-chief of cancer services for Shands at UF on May 6. He will start July 1 and will replace Dr. W. Stratford May Jr., who resigned in April.
A 25-year-old UF student died May 1 in his grandmother's Plantation, Fla., home.
UF President Bernie Machen announced long-awaited and already controversial plans to slash the university¿s budget by $47 million to cope with state revenue shortfalls last week.
Joseph Glover, interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will become UF's provost on July 1.
The dean of UF's College of Medicine has apologized for divisive comments he made after his decision to overrule the admissions committee became public more than a month ago.
To meet its share of a $47 million budget cut, UF's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will reduce its foreign language offerings, lay off more than 30 faculty and staff and eliminate three Ph.D. programs.
Shands HealthCare was named one of five winners of the 2008 Governor's Sterling Award earlier this month.
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.
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