During tumultuous economic periods, parents and college students are increasingly looking to more cost effective health insurance plans.
Many are students at an in-between period where they are dropped by their parents’ insurance and don’t have full employer benefits. But UNF offers a student insurance plan through Blue Cross/Blue Shield of …

City council approves MOCA purchase for university
The Jacksonville City Council approved UNF’s acquisition of the Museum of Contemporary Art Jan. 27 with a 17-2 vote. Recently, the purchase has come under scrutiny due to declining assets and the $500,000 increase in debt that the university will assume.
UNF students, staff join …

A recently developed myWings application is in the works to assist academic advising and help with raduation and retention rates, according to UNF officials.
The Roadmap Initiative is currently in phase II of enhancements on 10 pilot roadmaps – two programs being chosen by department heads from each of the five …

AROUND THE STATE
Missing fund manager turns himself into Tampa FBI
The missing Floridian investment fund manager – whose $300 million in investment funds are actually worth less than $1 million, according to a federal lawsuit – turned himself in to the Tampa FBI field office to face fraud charges, the FBI …

President Barack Obama’s efforts to stabilize a tenuous cease-fire between Israel and Hamas were jeopardized Jan. 27 when a roadside bomb planted by Palestinian militants hit an Israeli patrol along the Gaza Strip border, killing one officer and wounding three others.
Israel launched a series of counterstrikes after the explosion, killing …