{"id":396257,"date":"2026-09-10T22:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T22:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396257\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T22:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T22:09:14","slug":"university-of-florida-celebrates-opening-of-jacksonville-graduate-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396257\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Florida celebrates opening of Jacksonville graduate campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h997049-p1\">The University of Florida ceremonially opened its <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2025\/06\/25\/deal-for-uf-graduate-campus-sails-through-city-council\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacksonville graduate campus<\/a> Wednesday, as university and community leaders gathered to cut the ribbon on the first classroom building for its Northeast Florida expansion.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h997049-p2\">\u201cWe\u2019re here to celebrate UF Jacksonville, a bold investment in this city, this region and our great state. We are here to show that when a top-tier university and a top-tier city unite around a shared vision, there is no limit to what can be accomplished,\u201d said Mori Husseini, chair of the UF board of trustees, during the event at the <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2025\/06\/10\/land-swap-for-uf-campus-paves-way-for-riverfront-development\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">former Interline Brands building<\/a> at 801 W. Bay St.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h997049-p3\">UF repurposed the two-story, 38,136-square-foot building for classroom use as part of what is envisioned as a campus that will stretch from that property west to Interstate 95.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/sep\/09\/uf-celebrates-opening-of-jacksonville-graduate-campus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this story<\/a> at the Jacksonville Daily Record, a Jacksonville Today news partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of Florida ceremonially opened its Jacksonville graduate campus Wednesday, as university and community leaders gathered to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-396257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}