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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]excellent school, they have a great honors program. and school spirit.[/quote]

Not true!

Florida is super MAGA.  Whole state sucks! [/quote]

Trump, Vance, and Musk won. Woke lost. Deal with it.[/quote]

If you ever look at the returns coming in for Florida, you can always see Gainesville lit up as a big spot of blue in the surrounding red.  Gainesville is pretty progressive, because of all the educated people.  
I have family members that have been on faculty there for decades.  It's true that the school has really come up over the last few decades and is really well regarded, especially in certain disciplines.  But it's also true that the DeSantis admin has really tried to wreck that, and they've had a lot of great professors retire or quietly move to new universities over the last couple of years.  I think faculty is super loyal to UF, and doesn't want to be too vocal about the damage, but it's definitely there.  The question is whether it's still a superficial wound that UF can recover from, or whether DeSantis is really going to permanently undermine the progress that a lot of dedicated faculty and admin have made over the past few decades.  
Also, UF historically gets a TON Of NIH grants and other federally sponsored research funds....so all the Trump admin cuts, including the cap on the NIH grant overhead, is going to hit them hard in the STEM departments.  It affects undergrad experience because if they have to significantly cut their PhD programs (due to lack of opportunities in labs), they have fewer grad students to teach classes, and also fewer new profs coming into tenured spots, and also fewer (maybe no) research opportunities for undergrads.  It's not great, but all the research universities are in that same boat, I think.  But UF does get a ton of that money and that research strength is a big reason why the university has improved so much over the past few decades.
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