UF is looking at a possible $49-million cut in state funding next year, now that the state's budget has been finalized by the House and Senate.
Ronald Stiles III, a UF senior and recreation sports major, died in a surfing accident at Crescent Beach, Fla., on May 1.
UF is installing emergency speakers in about 600 locations on campus - at a cost of about $900,000.
Beginning May 5, UF students will be able to forward e-mail sent to their GatorLink e-mail addresses to outside e-mail providers such as Yahoo! or Gmail.
UF's Counseling Center has noted an increase in students seeking and being referred to its services in the last year, keeping with a national trend, according an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
It is midnight on a Monday, and all of Leah Chapman's roommates are asleep. She walks into her room, turns off the light switch and crawls into bed. An hour goes by, and Chapman is still wide awake.
About 200 students donned black shirts and surgical masks with stickers reading Day of Silence Tuesday, in honor of the vow of silence they took oppose UF budget and program cuts.
UF students have expressed mixed reactions to the possibility of an earlier Spring Break, which would go into effect in 2011-2012 if the Faculty Senate votes to make the change next month.
According to details of budget proposals obtained this week, UF is considering cuts to book and journal purchasing by the libraries as well as financial aid and research awards.
The University of Central Florida is looking at potentially having to cut $22 million to $57 million off its budget, and like UF President Bernie Machen, UCF's president said stimulus money is not a long-term solution to cuts.
This year, Earth Day will leave a permanent mark on Santa Fe College's campus.
Come May 1, Student Body President Kevin Reilly will pass more than just his torch to Student Body President-elect Jordan Johnson.
Student Government voted unanimously to passed its budget bill, dishing out $583,482 to 87 student organizations Tuesday night.
Some student senators concerned with possible cuts to UF's multicultural and volunteering programs are hoping students will agree to pay higher tuition fees to save the programs.
Some student senators concerned with possible cuts to UF's multicultural and volunteering programs are hoping students will agree to pay higher tuition fees to save the programs.
The UF student accused of groping women on campus after telling them he was trying to remove a bug from their bodies may have groped as many as 36 women.
Ana Gonzalez has never seen the country she calls home.
While labor unions have been hurting over the last 30 years, the Major League Baseball Players Association has been thriving, said Donald Fehr, executive director of the baseball union.
Students will gather on the Plaza of the Americas tonight to remember those who died in the Holocaust more than 64 years ago.
At about 15 inches tall, Shoot 'Em Up, the beer-pong playing robot created by UF electrical engineering senior Jamie Unger-Fink, can aim and launch a ping-pong ball at a targeted red Solo cup eight times in a row.
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