Memos Category
Published: Apr 15th, 2009
Joseph Glover, Provost and Senior Vice President
This is to announce an internal search to fill the position of Dean of the International Center.
Nominations from the university community are encouraged and should be addressed to Chair of the Search Committee, Dean Steve Dorman, at sdorman@hhp.ufl.edu by May 1, 2009.
Applications should be submitted in electronic form (preferably a Word document) to Robin Bielling at rbielling@aa.ufl.edu by May 8, 2009. Applications should include: a cover letter explaining the candidate’s interest, experience, and suitability for the […]
Published: Apr 7th, 2009
Matthew Fajack, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Paula Varnes Fussell, Interim Vice President for Human Resource Services
As you may be aware, the University is implementing a new process for charging employee fringe benefits costs to departments. Currently the university charges departments the actual cost of employee benefits. The Federal Office of Management and Budget also allows universities to use an allocation method that applies fixed rates by employee groups. This is known as a pooled fringe rate and is the method the […]
Published: Apr 3rd, 2009
Paula Varnes Fussell, Interim Vice President for Human Resource Services
As you may already know, the federal government has issued guidelines for changes in the reporting of race and ethnicity status of individuals. Unlike in previous years, respondents will be able to select more than one race descriptor. The goal is to capture a more accurate picture of diversity of the U.S. population. The 2000 U.S. Census was the first experiment with the new coding structure. Beginning in 2010, federal and state data […]
Published: Apr 3rd, 2009
Jamie Lewis Keith, Vice President and General Counsel
The regulations listed below were approved by the Board of Trustees on March 17, 2009.
6C1-1.0061 Affirmative Action Plan for Equal Employment Opportunity, and Administrative Organization for the Affirmative Action Program
6C1-1.0063 Complaints and Appeal Procedures for AP, TEAMS and USPS
6C1-3.006 Traffic & Parking; Definitions
6C1-3.013 Traffic & Parking; Violations
6C1-3.015 Traffic & Parking; Jurisdiction: Appeals
6C1-3.040 Employee Recognition Awards
6C1-3.0421 Employee Debt Collection
6C1-3.046 Discipline, Suspension and Dismissal for Cause of Technical, Administrative and Managerial Support
6C1-3.054 Appointment; Technical, Executive, Administrative and […]
Published: Apr 3rd, 2009
Paul Robell, Vice President for Development and Alumni Affairs
A review of the Foundation’s special events contract process has highlighted that some university offices are not properly processing fundraising and alumni event contracts, leaving the university, the Foundation, and individual employees at risk for liability with those events.
A fundraising or alumni event is one whose purpose is actual fundraising, the cultivation of prospects or alumni, or donor recognition. Whether Foundation funds are used to pay for an event is NOT relevant to this […]
Published: Apr 2nd, 2009
Paul A. Robell, Vice President, Development and Alumni Affairs
As you are aware, all gifts collected on behalf of the University of Florida are to be deposited and processed through the University of Florida Foundation (UFF). An OACR audit of a number of units on campus highlighted that “best practices” are not being used consistently in the handling of these collections. Gifts should be handled with the same care and procedures as are other university collections. See UF Finance and Accounting Directive and […]
Published: Apr 1st, 2009
Joseph Glover, Provost and Senior Vice President
This is to announce an internal search to fill the position of Associate Provost for Information Technology, E-Learning, and Distance Education.
Nominations from the university community are encouraged and should be addressed to Chair of the Search Committee Dean Christopher Silver at silver2@ufl.edu preferably by April 16, 2009.
Applications should be submitted in electronic form (preferably a Word document) to Robin Bielling at rbielling@aa.ufl.edu by April 20, 2009 when the search committee will begin reviewing applications. Applications should […]
Published: Mar 31st, 2009
Joe Glover, Provost and Senior Vice President
I am pleased to announce that Dr. Kevin Knudson has been appointed to serve as Director of the Honors Program at the University of Florida, effective June 30, 2009.
Dr. Knudson is a member of Mississippi State University’s mathematics and statistics faculty. He has served as acting director of the Shackouls Honors College at Mississippi State since 2008. Prior to that, he served as associate director of the honors college. He has also directed the Mississippi State […]
Published: Mar 30th, 2009
Douglas Barrett, Senior Vice President
Joseph Glover, Provost and Senior Vice President
This is to announce the initiation of the search for the next Dean of the College of Public Health and Health Professions. A search committee has been formed and will be chaired by Dean and Associate Provost Kathleen Long. The entire list of search committee members and meeting dates may be found at http://www.aa.ufl.edu/search_committees/Dean_PHHP/index.htm. Additional information about the search will be posted at this Web site as it develops. In particular, the […]
Published: Mar 24th, 2009
Chuck Frazier, Interim CIO
Ed Poppell, Vice President for Business Affairs
For over four years now, the campus standard for all new buildings has been to install Voice over IP (VoIP) telephones. This memo is to indicate that the same policy will apply to any major upgrades or replacements of unit telephone systems.
Many UF departments and units have already converted their existing phone systems to VoIP. More than 6,000 VoIP phones have now been installed by Computing & Networking Services on the main campus, […]
