UF will eliminate $42M, 150 positions from budget
By THOMAS STEWART | May 18, 2009UF will cut its budget by about $42 million and eliminate about 150 positions, UF President Bernie Machen told the Faculty Senate on Friday.
UF will cut its budget by about $42 million and eliminate about 150 positions, UF President Bernie Machen told the Faculty Senate on Friday.
Despite recent cases of swine flu at schools across the United States, including one case at UF, there were only about 10 students at a lecture about the virus Monday night.
A proposed change to UF's regulations that would have given the university more control over who it lays off has been tabled until the fall after a unanimous Faculty Senate vote on Friday.
Rose Lugano, a lecturer of Swahili language and literature at UF who was laid off last year as a result of budget cuts, was reinstated last week.
UF took its stance against sexual harassment to the Internet with the launch of a new Web site Tuesday.
UF took its stance against sexual harassment to the Internet with the launch of a new Web site Tuesday.
Diastema did him in.
Despite hopes for a united front, UF student senators proved a rift still exists between the majority and minority parties at the first summer session meeting Tuesday night, where several senators walked out to force early adjournment.
Each semester, anxious students stalk ISIS for an open seat in Reporting, a make-or-break class in UF's College of Journalism and Communications.
Rutherford B. Hayes, Barack Obama and Bob Graham once walked the halls of Harvard Law School, and in September, seven University of Florida graduates will walk them too.
A partnership between the Harn Museum of Art and the Alachua County school system is breeding the next generation of student Picassos.
The Arredondo Room reopened as the Arredondo Café on the fourth floor of the Reitz Union Monday.
Ronald Stiles III, a UF senior and recreation sports major, died in a surfing accident at Crescent Beach, Fla., on May 1.
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.
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.
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 is installing emergency speakers in about 600 locations on campus - at a cost of about $900,000.
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.