Garrett Shanley is a fourth-year journalism major and the Spring 2025 university editor for The Alligator. Outside of the newsroom, you can find him watching Wong Kar-Wai movies and talking to his house plants.
Santa Fe was one of two public colleges in Florida to earn a Carnegie classification.
When Gov. Ron DeSantis hand-picked Joseph Ladapo as Florida’s surgeon general in September 2021, the role came with a second high-profile appointment: a tenured faculty position at UF. But Ladapo’s colleagues still aren’t sure what he does to earn his salary at the university. Some say not much.
Holland, a UF animal sciences sophomore, died in Gainesville March 2. An oncoming car struck Holland while she was driving her moped into the parking lot at Southwest Recreation Center, where she exercised daily. She was 20 years old.
Local law enforcement arrested a woman who fired shots in the Butler Plaza Walmart parking lot Saturday after an hours-long standoff with police, according to Gainesville Police Department.
The Board of Governors, a majority of which are appointees of Gov. Ron DeSantis, voting month to purge UF’s general education catalog from more than 1,200 courses to just under 300.
Gainesville Police Department and Gainesville Fire Rescue responded to a car accident outside Wild Pie on Thursday afternoon, which left one SUV flipped on its side.
A preliminary report from the Florida Auditor General found UF failed to prevent former President Ben Sasse from leveraging his executive privileges to inappropriately spend university funds.
Late Friday, Trump announced Schwinn, UF’s inaugural vice president for PK-12 and pre-bachelor's programs, as Deputy Secretary of Education — the second highest-ranking education official in the country.
The brief and turbulent tenure of former UF President Ben Sasse roiled the university in controversy and left campus politics in a near-constant state of flux. Now, the monthslong search for Sasse’s successor is underway.
UF officially began its search for a new president, a process expected to stretch over several months and involve intense scrutiny from stakeholders. The next president will step into the role during a time of strict oversight from the UF Board of Trustees.
A car lies on its side after colliding with another car and flipping outside Wild Pie on NW 13th Street on Feb. 6, 2025 in Gainesville, Fla.
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