Editor's Note: UF Supreme Court Chief Justice Brian Aungst was not contacted for this story.
To comply with requests from the Board of Governors to stifle enrollment for the fall, UF may be left with only one option: cutting transfer students. And that news did not sit well across town at SFCC.
UF's budget situation got brighter Thursday, at least for the near future.
Two in-house candidates are out of the running for the UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean position.
The director of UF's Office of Sorority and Fraternity Affairs stepped down Feb. 13 in an unusually quick fashion.
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After the third college shooting in the last month, UF officials assured students that they're still safe on campus.
Another candidate has dropped out of the search for a UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean.
For years, the state's public universities have tugged at the Legislature to pour more funding into the State University System - one that currently ranks last in student-teacher ratios nationwide.
In preparation for semi-finalist interviews, the search committee for the next dean of UF's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences drafted questions on Thursday about budget cuts, shared governance and the college's diversity to ask the candidates.
The UF Office of Admissions has been working around the clock for the past few days determining the future of nearly 28,000 Gators hopefuls, and only about one-third of them will receive an invitation Friday.
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The UF Foundation will release an extra $2.4 million in endowment funds this March to help UF cope with a budget crisis.
Two state leaders are bouncing around ideas to change the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program. Both plans would provide incentives for students studying technology and health-related fields.
In response to a new state privacy law that became effective Jan. 1, UF Vice President of Student Affairs Patricia Telles-Irvin sent all students an e-mail Monday to raise awareness about the safety of releasing personal information.
UF may have to admit fewer transfer students next fall to meet the Florida Board of Governors' newly imposed enrollment limits.
A proposal that would grant the federal government regulatory powers over college endowments is gaining support in Congress and sparking opposition from many colleges, including UF.
The dean of UF's College of Medicine congratulated Florida's two new medical schools Thursday for receiving preliminary national accreditation, but he expressed concern for UF's medical education amid a state budget crisis.
UF President Bernie Machen continued to paint a bleak picture of the university's finances Thursday, telling a Faculty Senate committee that tuition is too low and funding for research has fallen off.
After less than a year on the job, UF Dean of University Libraries Judith Russell has proposed reorganizing her administration.
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