Details are still limited, but from what Mayor Lenny Curry hinted at in a tweet, the campus will be downtown.
News4JAX doesn’t know exactly where the campus will be built, but we’ve learned it will focus on artificial intelligence and medical technology.
The announcement comes more than a year after UF announced another new satellite campus in West Palm Beach.Monday was his first day on the job and this will be one of his first official acts.He’s been criticized for his stance on same-sex marriage. On Monday, hundreds of students, faculty, staff and alumni gathered on campus in Gainesville to protest his first day.
They eventually made their way inside the university’s administrative building and all the way up to Sasse’s office door. Protestors delivered a list of demands, including maintaining all pre-existing commitments to DEI initiatives.Sasse sent a letter to the campus community, and it didn’t directly address the demonstrators’ demands, but writes, “We’re a community, and to do this well, we need a wide range of perspectives and voices. We have an opportunity to build a shared vision – about what it means to be both a land-grant institution and the flagship of the most dynamic state in the union.
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