Graduate Assistants United will not accept a proposed 3% raise for graduate assistants, as UF offered at a bargaining session Wednesday.
The 2022-2023 budget will provide wages for more than 1,000 student workers on campus and fund campus resources such as the Hitchcock Field and Fork Pantry and Southwest Recreation Center.
The $3 million project is expanding Southwest Rec’s weight room from 14,000 to 21,000 square feet and adding a turf area, squat racks, deadlift platforms, weights and gender neutral washrooms.
Carlos “Charlie” Messina, a UF horticultural science professor, returned to Gainesville after more than 15 years in the crop modeling and plant breeding industry.
UF marine researchers recently discovered a new way of collecting DNA from sea turtles; a flipper print trail in the sand gives them all they need.
Senate President Elizabeth Hartzog was unanimously exonerated from abuse of power charges Thursday.
UF Student Government Senate proposed a resolution honoring the 21 lives lost at the Texas elementary school shooting that incorrectly identified the date of the tragedy and the victims’ names.
During the final listening sessions amid the search for UF's next president, attendees voiced concerns about lack of transparency and trust with university leaders.
Six hundred UF community members signed a letter opposing a Department of Health guideline endorsed by a UF professor that prohibits transgender people under 18 from adopting characteristics matching their gender identity.
As UF admission rates drop with the return to in-person classes, Santa Fe College’s are on the rise.
IFAS researchers and professors' findings will pave the way to longer self-sustained survival in space exploration; the access to plants as a food source would provide a more realistic way for astronauts to sustain themselves in space.
UF Student Government senators resumed their weekly meetings Tuesday, and senators grappled over committee recommendations and ethical dilemmas.
The university will host four listening sessions in the next two days as a part of the search for the next president. Faculty and students can provide input on qualities they want the presidential search committee and board of trustees to keep in mind Monday and Tuesday.
UF Health Shands Psychiatric Hospital faculty and volunteers spurred conversation about wellness by adorning the walls of 34th Street with a mural representative of mental health. The painting commemorated Mental Health Awareness month and Mental Health Action Day Thursday.
A tenured UF English professor is suing several faculty members, including President Kent Fuchs, under the First and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. He claims he was not granted his rights to free speech and due process.
UF offered graduate assistants their first wage increase in 5 years. It was less than $1,500.
A complaint submitted May 12 requests an ethics investigation into two high-ranking SG members. It concerned a trip to Israel the two took alongside other senators and executive officers.
UF Business Services announced recently it will break off its 13-year contract with Aramark to hire Chartwells Higher Education to handle all on-campus food services, including catering, residential, retail and athletic dining. The new provider is set to take over July 1.
On July 1, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ law limiting how race is discussed in workplaces and classrooms — known as the “Stop WOKE Act” — will go into effect. UF students and professors find it difficult to see a future where critical thinking and academic freedom can still be practiced.
UF professors are concerned about Senate Bill 7044, a new bill that allows an institute’s Board of Trustees to require post-tenure reviews every five years.
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