Memos Category
Published: Aug 28th, 2007
Kyle Cavanaugh, Senior Vice President for Administration
Presented annually, the Davis Productivity Awards honor state government employees throughout Florida who have significantly increased productivity in delivering state services and products. Awards are also made to individuals and work units for adapting and implementing previous years’ award-winning achievements to create added value. Nomination categories include:
State Employee Teams, Work Units, and Partnerships
Individual
Sustained Exemplary Performance by a Work Unit, District, Institution, or Comparable Organizational Unit (over a period of five or more years)
Sustained Exemplary Performance by […]
Published: Aug 23rd, 2007
Kyle Cavanaugh, Senior Vice President for Administration
Because leadership development is essential to the effective management of a university, Human Resource Services has launched two new leadership programs: The UF Academy and Next Level Leadership. Specifically customized for UF faculty and exempt staff, these programs will help us to develop and retain both existing and future leaders for the university.
As you know, UF currently faces an array of challenges. More than ever, it is essential that our leaders be trained to think strategically […]
Published: Aug 23rd, 2007
John Madey, Associate Director, OIT-Telecommunications
Please forward this memo to your appropriate staff.
OIT-Telecommunications is responsible for the distribution of the University of Florida Campus Directory and AT&T (BellSouth) Phone Book. Prior to the next delivery, for each department, we need to know the quantities of directories needed and where to deliver. Please use the following link to request the number of directories needed: http://telenet.cns.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/DirectoryRequest.cgi
If your department or building is listed below, you will receive directories through bulk shipments and do not need to […]
Published: Aug 23rd, 2007
John Madey, Associate Director, OIT-Telecommunications
Please forward this memo to your appropriate staff.
Gainesville Phone Book Listings: Review the University of Florida department listings in the BellSouth (AT&T) directory. Listings begin on page 99 of the Gainesville Business white pages. Determine how you wish your departmental name and telephone number to appear, fill out the information in the link below and submit NO LATER THAN SEPTEMBER 14TH to ensure an accurate listing for your department in the next BellSouth (AT&T) phone book.
After reviewing your […]
Published: Aug 22nd, 2007
Angel Kwolek-Folland, Interim Associate Provost, Academic Affairs
The following Web sites are provided for your information and are an overview of outside activities and conflict of interest responsibilities:
–Rules of the University of Florida: http://regulations.ufl.edu/chapter1/1011.pdf
–Guidelines, Policies, and Procedures on Conflict of Interest and Outside Activities, Including Financial Interests:http://www.generalcounsel.ufl.edu/downloads/COI.pdf
–In addition, for IFAS see also http://imm.ifas.ufl.edu/6_30/630-1-12.htm
Recent discussion about conflicts of interest generated by the use of faculty-authored course materials warrants a specific update. The Faculty Senate Academic Policy Council met on July 9, 2007 to begin […]
Published: Aug 22nd, 2007
Winfred M. Phillips, Vice President for Research
The UF Office of Research solicits preliminary proposals for the State of Florida Centers of Excellence competition. Preliminary proposals will be reviewed by faculty committees. Committees will make recommendations on the best proposals to the Sr. Vice Presidents. UF will target no more than 5 proposals to go forward to the Board of Governors. Preliminary proposals should contain the following information:
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
RATIONALE AND VISION: describe the relevance of the research; describe the impact at the […]
Published: Aug 17th, 2007
Janie M. Fouke, Provost
The Office of the Provost is pleased to announce that the Provost Faculty Fellow Program will host a Faculty Fellow in Sustainability beginning in the Spring 2008 semester. The fellowship awardee will pursue a one to two year project to develop an interdisciplinary certificate/minor in sustainability and will be responsible for the following:
– Researching best practices at universities for integrating sustainability into academics, which may include the existing frameworks for certificates and minor and major courses of study;
– Collaborating […]
Published: Aug 16th, 2007
Michael V. McKee, Assistant Vice President and University Controller
This memorandum is provided to inform faculty and staff of student tuition and fees effective Fall semester 2007. In addition to assessing tuition and fees based on student residency, course level, and program, tuition rates are now also based on the first enrolled term of the current degree. Detailed fee information may be accessed at: http://fa.ufl.edu/ufs/cashiers/feecalc.asp. Definitions of the first enrolled term of the current degree are as follows:
Pre-Fall 2005 Student Fee Criteria:
• A […]
Published: Aug 9th, 2007
Dr. Eugene L. Zdziarski, Assistant Vice President & Dean of Students
The 2007-2008 academic year marks the inaugural year of the campus-wide Common Reading Program at UF. The Division of Student Affairs in cooperation with a variety of colleges and departments across the campus have developed this initiative to provide a common learning experience for the entire campus community, and in particular new first-year students. A committee of faculty, staff, and students selected the book, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The quest of Dr. Paul […]
Published: Aug 8th, 2007
J. Bernard Machen, President
I am writing to announce the creation of a committee to help identify ways to trim costs and operate more efficiently in an extremely tight budget year and into the future amid predictions of a worsening economy.
As part of a comprehensive approach to addressing our current and future budget situation, the newly established Cost Reduction and Efficiency Task Force is charged with:
* Identifying processes that could be streamlined
* Determining the feasibility of reducing or eliminating some UF functions
* Evaluating […]
