Vision Party takes Senate in walkover election
By Alligator Staff report | Feb. 25This Spring, Vision is the only party on the ballot; no independent or third-party candidates are running, so the election is entirely uncontested.
This Spring, Vision is the only party on the ballot; no independent or third-party candidates are running, so the election is entirely uncontested.
The action does not affect transfer students already admitted to UF. Freshmen applicants and those admitted through UF Online also remain unaffected.
Students cast votes for UF’s student body president, vice president and treasurer, as well as senators representing 17 of the university’s colleges and schools. Freshman, sophomore and graduate senators are also running.
Former UF President Ben Sasse announced his terminal cancer diagnosis on social media this morning. The post was met with an outpouring of sympathy from former and current colleagues from the U.S. Senate and UF administration, along with other top politicians and public figures.
The Independent Florida Alligator is looking for its next team of reporters, editors, photographers and more for the Spring semester.
Gov. Ron DeSantis announced plans to “pull the plug” on H-1B visas across Florida universities during a Wednesday morning press conference at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
Hundreds of UF alumni, students and families flooded campus and its surrounding streets to celebrate the school’s 102nd annual Homecoming Friday.
Vision Party won the 49 Student Government seats up for election Tuesday night, maintaining its dominant majority in the Student Senate.
Only one Student Government party entered the Fall 2025 election. But UF students still lined up at the Reitz Student Union, Norman Education Library and other campus polling locations to cast their ballots in races that are largely uncontested.
The Presidential Search Advisory Committee named Santa J. Ono the lone finalist for UF’s 14th president in an announcement Sunday afternoon.