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Students demand better funding for higher education

Blake Middleton • Feb 27, 2014

Congregating in the Peace Plaza, they demanded $9 million for building renovations, as well as immediate in-state tuition for veterans and the children of undocumented immigrants.

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Lobbying for UNF students

Sarah Ricevuto • Apr 29, 2013

A new office within Student Government has been created to make sure UNF student voices are heard by legislators in Tallahassee year-round.

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Rally in Tally for higher education

Sarah Ricevuto • Apr 9, 2013

Students from each of the 11 Florida state universities gathered in Tallahassee to lobby for lower tuition.

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Students’ voices heard in Tallahassee

Sarah Ricevuto • Feb 26, 2013

The words and signatures of over a thousand angry UNF students were delivered to legislators in Tallahassee last Wednesday. The Aim Higher campaign’s goal is to end budget cuts to state higher...

Florida supreme court ruling may lead to higher tuition

Dana Levy • Feb 8, 2013

Florida’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Constitution gives state legislators ultimate authority over the governing board to set college tuition. Legislators have proposed bills to raise...

Aim Higher: students rally for lower tuition

Kathleen Godfrey • Jan 15, 2013

Aim Higher activists rallied in the student union on Jan. 14 in an attempt to call attention to the 15 percent tuition increase students may face this year. UNF is the first institution in the state...

Higher Education Costs

Catherine Byerly • Jan 9, 2013

Tuition could be going up for some students but not others if the findings from the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Higher Education are enacted. Commissioned by Gov. Rick Scott, the task force was created...

FSA wants Florida to aim higher

Lydia Moneir • Nov 18, 2012

A man in Fruit Cove signs away $300 million. Two months later, UNF’s tuition increased by 13 percent. Gov. Rick Scott cut those $300 million from state higher education in Florida this year.

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The skinny on ‘Skins’

Spinnaker • Mar 10, 2010

British version of ‘Degrassi’ broadcasts ‘authentic teenage lives’ My friend recently introduced me to the beauty behind the British television show (that appears on channel E4 in the U.K and avails itself on your Netflix Instawatch) “Skins.”

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