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With a boost in funding from the Legislature, the University of Florida on Friday announced an initiative to add 500 new faculty members to help raise its status as one of the nation's top public research universities.
Read More »Universities Get Money For Faculty, Grad Programs
All 12 Florida universities will benefit from $121 million in two new programs designed to help the schools attract top-level professors and reward high-performing graduate schools. The University of Florida will receive the largest share at more than $27 million.
Read More »‘Christmas In May’ For Many College Students
Despite political turmoil in Washington, D.C., and Tallahassee, federal and state lawmakers have agreed to dramatically increase financial aid to the neediest college and university students.
Read More »University Leaders Preparing For ‘Block’ Tuition
University leaders at the Florida Board of Governors expressed reservations about the cost and impact on part-time students of switching from charging students on a per-credit-hour basis for classes to charging a flat, per-semester fee.
Read More »Senate Seeks Budget Boost For Universities
The Florida Senate wants to boost higher-education funding by hundreds of millions of dollars next year, with more money going to student financial aid, Bright Futures merit scholarships and need-based assistance.
Read More »Universities Push For More Mental Health Funding
With eight of Florida's 12 universities falling below minimum staffing standards for mental health counselors, the university system's Board of Governors is asking for $7 million in increased funding from the 2017-2018 budget.
Read More »Memorial Service Honors The Lives Of Two UF Students
A crowd of around 200 arrived on the University of Florida’s architecture lawn for the memorial service to honor two students who were killed in an accident over their spring break.
Read More »Senator Bill Nelson To Try Legislative Route In ‘Water War’
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said Monday he will file legislation aimed at forcing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to divert more freshwater into Northwest Florida's Apalachicola Bay system, in relation to an ongoing dispute between the state and Georgia over the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river system.
Read More »UF President Fuchs Backs Teacher Funds, Block Tuition
Proposed legislation could help University of Florida President Kent Fuchs' goal of reducing the student-to-professor ratio on his Gainesville campus from 21-to-1 to 16-to-1, which will take about 550 new faculty members.
Read More »Senate Looks To “Block” Tuition For Universities
The Florida Senate will move forward next week with a proposal that would require all 12 state universities to adopt a "block" tuition policy by the fall of 2018.
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