Memos Category
Published: Jun 10th, 2010
Matthew Fajack, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
University of Florida’s sponsored research has rapidly grown, by 70 percent in the past 10 years, ranking us 12th among public research universities nationally. At the same time, administrative and compliance challenges for federal research at universities across the country have also increased.
Chief Audit Executive Brian Mikell and I shared with UF’s Board of Trustees the results of internal audits of federally funded research awards. These audits and other work have identified opportunities to improve and […]
Published: Jun 10th, 2010
Ed Poppell, Vice President for Business Affairs
Dave O’Brien is retiring as Assistant Vice President for Business Affairs and Director of the Physical Plant Division. There will be a farewell reception on June 29, 2010, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at PPD Main Street (Building 270) in the PPD compound on Radio Road.
Please encourage those who have worked with Dave to stop in and say ‘good-bye’!
Published: Jun 8th, 2010
Ed Poppell, Vice President for Business Affairs
I am pleased to announce Curtis Reynolds has accepted the positions of Assistant Vice President for Business Affairs and Director for the Physical Plant Division at the University of Florida. As most of you know, Mr. Dave O’Brien, Physical Plant Director for the last 15 years, will retire June 30, 2010.
Mr. Reynolds currently serves as the Vice President for Facilities Management at Miami Dade College in Miami, Florida, a post he has held since 2006. He […]
Published: Jun 7th, 2010
Leslie D. Bram, Associate Vice President/COO University of Florida Foundation, Inc.
The following changes to the University of Florida Foundation’s credit card processing policies will be implemented beginning July 1, 2010. These changes are necessary in order to meet the PCI security standards adopted by the credit card industry.
Credit card data will be accepted by the Foundation’s Gift Processing department directly from the donor or customer, via US Mail or telephone.
When speaking to or communicating with an individual who wishes to pay by […]
Published: Jun 4th, 2010
Donna K. Stricker, Director, Presidential Events and Commencement, Office of the President
PLEASE FORWARD THIS INFORMATION TO YOUR FACULTY
Ceremonies: This summer, there will be two (2) university-wide commencement ceremonies – an Advanced Degree Ceremony (Saturday, August 7th at 10:00am) and a university-wide (all colleges) ceremony for Bachelor Degree candidates (Saturday, August 7th at 2:00pm). Both ceremonies will be held in the Stephen C. O’Connell Center. Please see the Commencement Website at http://www.registrar.ufl.edu/commencement/ under the heading Ceremonies Schedules for additional information. The College of Pharmacy has […]
Published: Jun 2nd, 2010
Paula Varnes Fussell, Vice President for Human Resource Services; Kenneth J. Gerhardt, Senior Associate Dean, Graduate School
For your information, the 2010-2011 minimum stipends for new graduate students on appointments are provided below:
9 month appointments (19.5 biweekly periods)
FTE
Annual
Biweekly Amount
1.00
$20,000
$1,025.64
.50
$10,000
$512.82
.33
$6,600
$338.46
.25
$5,000
$256.41
12 month appointments (26.1 biweekly periods)
FTE
Annual
Biweekly Amount
1.00
$26,769.20
$1,025.64
.50
$13,384.60
$512.82
.33
$8,833.81
$338.46
.25
$6,692.30
$256.41
The minimums will also be posted via the following Human Resources web site http://www.hr.ufl.edu/academic/gradsalaries.asp. Please contact Academic Personnel at (352) 392-2477 if you have any questions.
Published: May 20th, 2010
Kathleen Long, Associate Provost
It is time to begin planning for our New Faculty Orientation to be held on August 19, 2010. Orientation is a one day program that will inform new faculty of the many services and resources available to them on campus. We are requesting information on your new faculty appointees so that we can prepare our programs. Your college/departmental responses are imperative to the success of our program and are much appreciated.
Request for Data on New Faculty:
Please fill out the New Appointee […]
Published: May 19th, 2010
Paula Varnes Fussell, Vice President for Human Resource Services David J. Sammons, Dean, UF International Center (UFIC)
We are pleased to announce that the services supporting the employment and sponsorship of foreign nationals will transfer from the International Center to Human Resource Services (HRS) effective June 11, 2010. After careful review, we have concluded that the absorption of these services into HRS will provide a more efficient and effective process for monitoring and ensuring university compliance with immigration regulations. The establishment of an Immigration Services […]
Published: May 17th, 2010
Katie Marquis, Interim Executive Director, UF Alumni Association
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2010 Summer Outstanding Leadership Award for Male and Female Graduating Seniors, sponsored by the University of Florida Alumni Association. The students selected for these awards will be acknowledged at the graduation ceremonies on August 7, 2010. Please encourage qualified students to apply for this important honor.
*Applications may be downloaded from the Dean of Students website at www.dso.ufl.edu/scholarships/ola.php or the Center for Student Involvement website at http://www.union.ufl.edu/involvement/applications/ or picked […]
Published: May 6th, 2010
Paula Varnes Fussell, Vice President for Human Resource Services
We are pleased to announce that Human Resource Services has now added refresher training to our online “Preventing Sexual Harassment” curriculum.
All UF employees who have previously attended the instructor-led “Mini-Conference on Sexual Harassment” (GET119), but have not completed the online training, should now plan to complete the online refresher version. We ask that these employees complete the refresher version by September 30, 2010, and that all UF employees review and complete this training content […]
