Memos Category
Published: Jan 18th, 2008
Chris Machen, Chair of Healthy Gators 2010 Coalition
I am pleased to announce a new campus-wide walking program sponsored by Healthy Gators 2010. The Walking Gators program is for faculty, staff and students of all fitness levels to de-stress during the work day, meet new people and get fresh air and exercise through moderate walking. I encourage you to inform all of your staff about this new program and to also be as flexible as you can with their work schedules so they […]
Published: Jan 17th, 2008
Michael V. McKee, Assistant Vice President & University Controller
A Schedule of Paydays and Critical Dates for Fiscal Year 2008-2009 can be accessed on the Payroll, Finance and Accounting website at: http://fa.ufl.edu/payroll/paydays-2008-2009.asp The schedule includes T&L deadlines as well as the Human Resource offices deadlines to assure that all supporting documents are received in time for approval for the next payday.
You may contact Ms. Donna McClure, dmcclure@ufl.edu, or Mrs. Linda Orfield, lorfield@ufl.edu, in University Payroll Services, 392-1231, if you have questions.
Published: Jan 17th, 2008
Michael V. McKee, Assistant Vice President & University Controller
Employees’ 2007 W-2 forms will be distributed from University Tax Services (Room 24, Tigert Hall) to departments on January 30, 2008. Employees will also receive an Employee Year-End Earnings Statement which will assist them in comparing the amounts on the W-2 form to the earnings, deductions, taxes and net pay on their last biweekly earnings statement for 2007.
IRS regulations require the University to distribute the 2007 W-2 forms to employees on or before January […]
Published: Jan 17th, 2008
Winfred M. Phillips, Vice President for Research & Dennis C. Jett, Dean of the International Center
Faculty members are invited to submit proposals for the sixth annual competition for internationalizing the curriculum. Up to 16 grants of $3000 will be awarded to faculty for proposals to modify existing courses to increase their international component or develop new courses with substantial international content.
Proposals are due by Monday, March 17. Winners will be notified in early April. Links to this year’s guidelines and proposal format […]
Published: Jan 15th, 2008
Paul A. Robell, Vice President for Development and Alumni Affairs
We invite your involvement in the Third Annual UF Alumni Association Outstanding Young Alumni Awards Ceremony. This year, members of the Alumni Association’s Young Alumni Council and Gainesville Young Alumni Committee will host the awards breakfast on April 12th, 2008 before the Orange and Blue Game. As you will recall, this recognition breakfast was established by the UFAA Board of Directors with support of President Bernie Machen.
We are asking each college to select […]
Published: Jan 15th, 2008
Marc Hoit, Interim CIO
The UF community should be on alert for a fraudulent e-mail message (subject: “VERIFY YOUR UFL EMAIL ACCOUNT NOW”) which is currently circulating on the Internet. This message is a ‘phishing’ scam — an attempt to lure recipients into revealing personal information for the purpose of identity theft.
Please do NOT respond to this or any message that asks for your password!
Any legitimate communication from UF regarding your account will include a telephone number that you can call to verify […]
Published: Jan 11th, 2008
Eugene L. Zdziarski, II, Ph.D., Assistant Vice President and Dean of Students
Nominations now are being accepted for the Spring 2008 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 May 1st through May 4th. Please encourage qualified students to apply for this important honor.
Applications may be downloaded from the Dean of Students website at http://www.dso.ufl.edu/scholarships/ola.php or picked up from the […]
Published: Jan 8th, 2008
Kyle Cavanaugh, Senior Vice President for Administration
Henry T. Frierson, Associate Vice President and Dean of Graduate School
The Graduate School and Human Resource Services have worked together to develop a template for colleges and units to use for the Graduate Student Admission Letter and the Graduate Student Letter of Appointment. Please encourage your departments to use these templates.
The templates can be found at http://www.hr.ufl.edu/academic/letters.
If you have any questions about these documents, please contact Janet Malphurs, assistant director for Academic Personnel, at 273-1737 or […]
Published: Jan 8th, 2008
Kyle Cavanaugh, Senior Vice President for Administration & Marc Hoit, Interim CIO
The university has been enhancing its emergency response efforts in connection with providing information, warnings and security for its students, faculty and staff. Part of this effort involves the collection of emergency contact information to be used in case of a campus or other emergency involving the university or its constituents. The university has started collecting emergency notification information for students during the course registration process. Plans to start collecting this […]
Published: Jan 7th, 2008
Debra Walker King, Associate Provost, Faculty Development
Do not forget to register for and attend the fourth session in the Provost’s Academic Administrators’ Seminar Series. The series is designed to bring together department chairs, directors, associate deans and deans in discussions about academic administrative management at UF.
This session offers tips for unit and organizational managers interacting with faculty members in evaluative and unique situations. Topics include how to provide faculty career flexibility or address questions about this subject as well as how to […]
