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UFF elevates concerned voices as UF’s re-opening plans rev on
“The HyFlex model has been nothing but detrimental to my education,” Jacob Giner, an undergraduate anthropology major, said February 11, 2021 | 1:46pm EST
A collection of tombstone shaped signs and a banner calling for the end of in-person classes at the University of Florida was set-up on the corner of 13th Street and University Avenue on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. Photo by Julia Cooper | The Independent Florida Alligator
UF professor Stephen Mulkey said he wouldn’t be surprised if he lost his job for criticising the university administration s COVID-19 response.
But, that didn’t stop Mulkey and other faculty from sharing their complaints about UF’s in-person
At University of Florida, a rise in face-to-face classes prompts pushback
The in-person college experience is back by popular demand. But faculty, local residents and some students are sounding alarms.
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GNV Unite, a group formed by Gainesville resident Danielle Hawk, put up a display of tombstone art outside the University of Florida campus Wednesday to protest the school s decision to offer more in-person classes this semester. [ Courtesy of Danielle Hawk ]
Published Feb. 6
When the University of Florida announced plans last fall to reopen this semester with a âhy-flexâ model, many balked.
It meant that the spring 2021 course schedule would have roughly as many in-person classes as it did last spring, before the pandemic.
Over a dozen gray cardboard tombstones stood by the University of Florida archway at the corner of 13th Street and University Avenue Wednesday night. UF Employees, one read. #6 National Ranking, another showed.
Small and bleak, they formed a makeshift graveyard protesting the university s COVID-19 policies and listing things that will or have died because of it, said Danielle Hawk, founder of GNV Unite, a coalition of UF critics behind the display.
GNV Unite is a new, but active challenger to the university. In less than two weeks, it has circulated a petition listing its demands for UF to better handle the pandemic and gotten over 1,200 signatures.