Memos Category
Published: Oct 12th, 2007
Bernie Machen, President
Please allow me to update you on our budget situation now that the Florida Legislature has approved a reduced budget plan for the upcoming year.
While Gov. Charlie Crist must sign off on the plan before it goes into effect, I want you to be aware of the budget’s impact on the University of Florida and what it means looking forward.
The House and Senate on Friday cut $22.1 million in recurring state funds from UF’s budget. It is a smaller cut […]
Published: Oct 8th, 2007
Michael V. McKee, Assistant Vice President and University Controller
The University of Florida Purchasing Department, in collaboration with the University’s Privacy Office, is pleased to announce that Request for Proposal, RFP 07MB-159 for Document Destruction has been awarded to Cintas Document Management. Cintas Document Management is authorized to provide destruction and disposal services for restricted and sensitive data in any format including paper, videos, computer tapes and hard drives. Cintas Document Management can provide either on-premise or local off-premise destruction or disposal service. […]
Published: Oct 8th, 2007
Michael V. McKee, Assistant Vice President and University Controller
The University of Florida Purchasing Department is pleased to announce that the Invitation to Negotiate, ITN07HK-187 for Temporary Help Services has been awarded to Career Center, Inc. d/b/a TempForce of Gainesville. This new contract is part of Purchasing Service’s strategic sourcing initiative and became effective September 20, 2007.
TempForce is the University’s prime provider for a comprehensive range of temporary service categories including: Accounting and Bookkeeping, Administrative, General Office and Clerical, Retail Sales, Customer Service […]
Published: Sep 28th, 2007
Kyle Cavanaugh, Senior Vice President for Administration
Effective July 1, 2007, the Florida Legislature passed significant changes to the laws relating to Veterans’ Preference.
CHANGES TO RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION PROCEDURES:
Preference eligibility no longer expires upon appointment of the eligible person to a position with the state or any political subdivision in the state.
Current or previous employment with the state (or any covered entity) should no longer be considered when determining preference eligibility.
In summary, this law establishes “perpetual” entitlement for veteran preference for eligible persons, […]
Published: Sep 28th, 2007
Kyle Cavanaugh, Senior Vice President for Administration
Effective November 1, 2007, each eligible faculty (including Postdoctoral Associates), TEAMS, and USPS employee who was hired on or before July 1, 2007, and has been continuously employed by the university through and including November 1, 2007, shall receive a non-recurring, one-time lump sum payment of $1,000. The actual payment will be in the November 9, 2007 paycheck. These payments are subject to applicable taxes. Each eligible part-time employee shall receive a lump sum payment prorated […]
Published: Sep 27th, 2007
Dennis C. Jett, Dean of the UF International Center
The International Educator of the Year Award was created in 2004 to recognize outstanding international endeavors by UF faculty members. This year, colleges are asked to choose at least one untenured or newly tenured faculty and one senior faculty member to receive the award for their college. The winner of each award will receive $1000. An overall, campus-wide winner in both categories will receive $2000.
Each college is free to develop its own review process, […]
Published: Sep 27th, 2007
Michael V. McKee, Assistant Vice President and University Controller
The University of Florida Purchasing department in conjunction with Housing and Residence Education, Physical Plant Division and IFAS Facilities Planning and Operations is pleased to announce the award of contracts for the procurement of Maintenance, Repair & Operations (MRO) Supplies that include such items as air filters, electrical items, janitorial products, industrial supplies and much more. The awarded vendors are: American Air Filter (AAF), Colonial Paper Company, Grainger, Graybar, Heritage Paper and Unisource.
These contracts […]
Published: Sep 26th, 2007
Janie M. Fouke, Provost
Faculty and departments are asked to submit their Spring term textbook adoptions at http://www.textadoption.ufl.edu through October 26, 2007. Once submitted, this information is available on-line to all bookstores, providing both students and bookstores timely and correct information about textbook requirements. With your textbook adoption information, bookstores can begin the ordering process to ensure timely arrival of texts for Spring term. By knowing what texts are required, bookstores can provide students with better prices on book buybacks.
Students can view Spring […]
Published: Sep 26th, 2007
Janie Fouke, Provost
Please forward this information to your faculty.
Ceremonies: An Advanced Degree Ceremony (all colleges; all masters and doctoral candidates) will be held at 4:00pm on Friday, December 14, 2007 in the O’Connell Center. On Saturday, December 15, 2007, two undergraduate degree ceremonies, at 10:00am and 2:00pm, will also be held in the O’Connell Center. Please refer to the fall commencement schedule at http://www.registrar.ufl.edu/commencement/ for the college assignments. Please note that separate ceremonies will be hosted by the College of Pharmacy on […]
Published: Sep 20th, 2007
Janie Fouke, Provost and Senior Vice President and Debra Walker King, Associate Provost for Faculty Development
This is a series of half day leadership seminars designed to bring together department chairs, directors, associate deans and deans in discussions about academic administrative management at UF. The series focuses on University regulations and policies as well as administrator’s rights and responsibilities to manage. Part I of the series, the new chairs’ orientation, was completed in August, 2007. Below you will find the schedule for the […]
