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VISA Status Report

Published: Mar 30th, 2006

Kyle J. Cavanaugh, Vice President Human Resource Services

Over the next few days we will be distributing a new VISA status report to your college and departmental administrators. This report is now available in the myUFL system under Enterprise Reporting and is used to track foreign national employees on VISAs by providing the status/expiration date of the current VISAs.

Please ask your staff to review the reports and provide a copy of a current VISA and I-9 for any employee whose VISA data is […]

Shared Governance at the College and Department Level

Published: Mar 30th, 2006

Kim Tanzer, Chair, Faculty Senate

Since last Fall a Joint President-Senate Task Force has been working to develop principles and methods to assure that all colleges and departments at UF practice shared academic governance. Members of the Task Force include current and past administrators and faculty members from all parts of the University. In the course of their work, the Task Force inventoried existing shared governance practices across the university, surveyed faculty members and spoke with administrators. The draft report reflects all of […]

Short Work Break for 9-and 10-month employees

Published: Mar 28th, 2006

Kyle Cavanaugh

University of Florida 9- and 10- month employees (Faculty, Graduate Assistants, TEAMS) will be placed on “Short Work Break” for the summer semester automatically this year.

To prepare for this process, during the weekend of April 1, UF Bridges will run a report of those employees who will be put on short work breaks based on their appointments in People Soft. This report will be available to departments/units to review on April 3 by navigating to Public Folder>Human Resources>Workforce Information under Enterprise […]

Dr. Steve Dorman named Dean of College of Health and Human Performance

Published: Mar 24th, 2006

Janie M. Fouke, Provost and Senior Vice President

Dr. Steve Dorman, chairman of Texas A&M University’s department of health and kinesiology, has been named dean of the University of Florida’s College of Health and Human Performance.

Dr. Dorman, will assume his new position effective Aug. 1. He succeeds Jill Varnes, who has served as interim dean since 2003 and will return to full-time teaching. Patrick J. Bird served as dean for 17 years before stepping down in 2003.

Dr. Dorman is an outstanding addition to […]

Interim Vice President Announced

Published: Mar 24th, 2006

J. Bernard Machen, President

Barbara Wingo has been named the University of Florida’s interim vice president and general counsel effective April 1, 2006.

Wingo currently is UF’s associate vice president and deputy general counsel. She will succeed Pamela Bernard, who has accepted a position as vice president and general counsel at Duke University effective July 1.

Wingo joined the UF Office of the General Counsel in 1983 and has practiced there in all areas of university law. She also has been an adjunct member of […]

New & Revised Sponsored Program Project Reports

Published: Mar 21st, 2006

Jimmy Cheek, Senior Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources and Ed Poppell, Vice President for Finance and Administration

After working with members of the contract & grant university community, Finance and Accounting, and UF Bridges, we are pleased to introduce a series of reports and an update to all report navigation that will be available today, March 20, 2006. The new & revised reports will streamline the reconciliation process and help fiscal managers verify financial activity for sponsored program and construction projects. […]

Schedule of Paydays and Critical Dates for Fiscal Year 2006-2007

Published: Mar 21st, 2006

Michael V. McKee, University Controller

A Schedule of Paydays and Critical Dates for Fiscal Year 2006-2007 can be accessed on the Payroll, Finance and Accounting website at: http://fa.ufl.edu/payroll/paydays-2006-2007.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, mailto:dmcclure@ufl.edu, or Mrs. Linda Orfield, mailto:lorfield@ufl.edu, in University Payroll Services, 392-1231, if you have questions.

Doctoral Dissertation Award Winners

Published: Mar 20th, 2006

Dr. Gerhardt

The life of the university is greatly enhanced by the quality of our doctoral students, and they take their direction from our many outstanding faculty. In an effort to promote doctoral studies and to recognize excellence in doctoral dissertation advising/mentoring, awards are given each year to five advisors selected on a competitive basis. The Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award winners for the 2005- 2006 competition are:

Dr. Linda S. Behar-Horenstein – Educational Administration and Policy
Dr. Mark T. Brown – Environmental Engineering Sciences
Dr. Goran […]

Notice of Change in Proposed Regulation 6C1-2.001 Possession and Use of Firearms

Published: Mar 17th, 2006

Pamela J. Bernard. Vice President and General Counsel

Attached is a copy of the Notice of Change in Proposed Regulation that has been published on the University’s official website at
http://regulations.ufl.edu.
Thank you.

Attachment: Rule No.: 6C1-2.001

Notice-3-16-06 (PDF, 20 KB)

High Performance Computing Center Cluster Available

Published: Mar 17th, 2006

Marc Hoit, Interim CIO and Erik Deumens, Director HPC Center

The new combined Phase I and Phase II cluster of the University of Florida High Performance Computing Center is now available for research use. Visit http://www.hpc.ufl.edu to find out more about the cluster and the HPC Center.

Any UF faculty member and their research group are eligible to obtain an account to use the cluster in support of their research. Please send an e-mail request to Dr. Taylor, associate director of the HPC Center,(taylor@hpc.ufl.edu)to […]