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Florida's flagship university, already planning to build a campus in West Palm Beach, has reportedly purchased the Scripps Research Institute campus, including 70 empty acres in Palm Beach Gardens.
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The deal links Florida's flagship university to one of the world's leading bioscience research groups and adds to its footprint in Palm Beach County.
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A nearly decade-long effort to close the search process for Florida’s public university presidents is back again. The proposal has been tried and failed several times over, despite opposition from faculty, staff, and open government advocates. This time around, the argument remains the same.
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Fuch will leave his post at the end of 2022, saying he has fulfilled commitments he made when he took the helm of the state’s flagship university.
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The University of Florida faculty union has asked for classes to start online, but state university leaders say classes will resume in person
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The professors filed the lawsuit after the university denied their requests to serve as plaintiffs’ witnesses in a challenge to a new state elections law.
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The chairman of the University of Florida board of trustees served as a liaison with the office of Gov. Ron DeSantis when administrators were considering temporarily moving some college classes online due to the pandemic, according to text messages.
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Calling the actions “disrespectful,” the University of Florida Board of Trustees on Friday united in a strongly worded rebuke of professors who criticized the school’s decision to block faculty members from testifying as expert witnesses in a high-profile voting rights lawsuit.
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The university's report follows an outcry about the school blocking professors from testifying in a challenge to a controversial elections law.
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In a letter to University of Florida President Kent Fuchs on Thursday, the U.S. House Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties said the panel has opened a probe into the policy, saying it “undermines the academic and free speech values that are essential” to higher education.
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A UF task force is grappling with questions as professors file a lawsuit over First Amendment rightsThe lawsuit comes despite the university reversing course and allowing the professors to testify as experts in a case challenging a new elections law.