UF professors rank low
By Marisa Ross | Sep. 12, 2012When www.RateMyProfessors.com released its annual rankings last month, UF did not claim a spot on the Top 25 Professors, Top 10 Hottest Professors or Top 25 Universities lists.
When www.RateMyProfessors.com released its annual rankings last month, UF did not claim a spot on the Top 25 Professors, Top 10 Hottest Professors or Top 25 Universities lists.
Clearly, you have opinions about textbooks and their relationship with your college education. There must be some deep-seated reason you wrote this article beginning with a rant about textbook prices and royalty fees, but that’s an entirely different story for a different day.
There are many general truths about UF that students should know.
Despite a shaky economic atmosphere and state funding that remains “anemic,” the state of the university is strong, UF President Bernie Machen assured faculty during his State of the University address Thursday.
Adam Samei’s eyes darted across a flood of unfamiliar faces. He walked along the sidewalk near the University Auditorium, searching the buildings to find a landmark he recognized.
In between all of the true learning you will be doing for the next four years — like how to properly perform a keg stand and handle the subsequent hangover — remember, this is college and you do have to take classes.
In a response to a letter from the Journalism Department Advisory Council, UF President Bernie Machen made a few claims about the current situation with the Alligator's orange racks that deserve clarification.
UF Board of Trustees Chairman David Brown has appointed the search committee to find the next president of UF.
On July 3 the Alligator received an email from Amy Hass, UF associate vice president, stating the racks must be removed by Aug. 15.
At Thursday’s Board of Trustees meeting, UF President Bernie Machen announced he would reallocate funds to make up for the $4 million shortfall in the budget.
Florida A&M University’s Board of Trustees members questioned the leadership abilities of the university’s president Thursday.
After a year of campaigning to raise UF tuition to the market rate, President Bernie Machen decided to lower the tuition increase request for the upcoming year from 15 percent to 9 percent.
UF President Bernie Machen announced to the school’s Board of Trustees Friday morning that he decided to lower tuition increase request for the upcoming year from 15 percent to 9 percent.
Machen said he had hoped the Florida Legislature would scale back on cuts to the university, but the state mandated UF cut $38 million from its budget for the upcoming fiscal year.
As UF nears the end of a debated and contested budgeting process, faculty members took advantage of an open debate to ask UF President Bernie Machen questions about the university’s method of budgeting.
UF administrators say budget cuts are inevitable, including the $13.4 million that might come from their own budget.
UF political science professor Leonardo Villalon will be travelling to an African region south of the Sahara Desert this summer. It’s his third time in the past two years.
UF’s Board of Trustees elected a new chairman just in time to put his name on spring graduates’ diplomas.
Board of Trustees vice-chairman David Brown, a 1973 UF alumnus and chairman of Broad and Cassel law firm, was selected to carry out the remainder of the former chairman’s term.
The chairman of the UF Board of Trustees, Carlos Alfonso, announced his resignation Friday.