Skip to Main Content
UNF's #1 Student-Run News Source

UNF Spinnaker

UNF's #1 Student-Run News Source

UNF Spinnaker

UNF's #1 Student-Run News Source

UNF Spinnaker

Your Professor's Time to Shine at the Faculty Showcase

Your Professor’s Time to Shine at the Faculty Showcase

Kristina Smith Apr 7, 2019

The annual Faculty Showcase marks a change of pace for the student-faculty roles. For the last three years, the library showcase has been a chance for professors to display their work while students offer...

Read More
ISQs made simpler, shorter and easier for students

ISQs made simpler, shorter and easier for students

Cassidy Alexander Nov 24, 2015
The newly-changed ISQs are now much shorter and ask more pertinent questions to better evaluate professors.
Read Story
Dr. Keith Ashley, pictured fourth from the right, holds his Preservation Award for 2015.
Photo courtesy The Jacksonville Historic Preservation Commission

UNF Archaeology Lab receives award for museum exhibit work

Kalee Ball May 28, 2015
“Uncovering the Past: New Archaeological Discoveries of Northeast Florida” ran from January through May 2014 at the Museum of Science and History.
Read Story
Certain UNF faculty and administrators receive an allowance to pay for their cell phone plan if the phone is frequently used for university business. Photo by Michael Herrera

Ring, ring: your dean is calling

Kalee Ball Mar 2, 2015
Certain UNF faculty and administrators receive an allowance to pay for their cell phone plan if they use it enough for university business. The phone numbers, however, may not be public record.
Read Story
Opinion: adjunct faculty get the short end of the stick

Opinion: adjunct faculty get the short end of the stick

Cassidy Alexander Sep 10, 2014
Opinion: According to The Delphi Project, part-time faculty members earn 60% less than full-time, tenure-track faculty members when their salaries are expressed on an hourly basis. While this is the case for most universities in the US, the numbers show that UNF doesn’t take advantage of part-time faculty who work just as hard to earn much less.
Read Story

Delaney’s old staff runs deep at UNF

Carter Roush Apr 4, 2014

[nicevideo link="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTXskyo0TKQ"] In 2003, John Delaney ended his final term as mayor of Jacksonville and became the next president...

Read More

UNF’s last original faculty member reminisces, offers advice

Andrea Aribe Jul 24, 2012
Back in the day: Lou Woods remembers UNF’s earliest days, when the university consisted of four buildings with dirt parking lots and bears and snakes were problems on campus.
Read Story

Oral Sex now major concern in causes of throat cancer

Spinnaker Mar 24, 2011

Members of the UNF Health Promotion staff believe the rise in throat cancer can be attributed to a change in our culture’s view of oral sex. Scientists across the country are finding oral sex causes...

Read More

Students get a whack at critiquing the critics

Spinnaker Sep 14, 2010
Faculty art show gives students a glance at professors’ work, a chance for student's to critique their critics.
Read Story

UPDATED: Search after bomb threat turns up nothing

Spinnaker Nov 11, 2009

The University of North Florida posted a notification on Thursday morning, Nov. 12, that a thorough search by the University Police Department has produced no results after a bomb threat made towards...

Read More