Memos Category
Published: Oct 6th, 2003
Larry T. Ellis, Director, Division of Human Resources
State-sponsored benefits open enrollment
The annual open enrollment period for employee benefits, which will run from September 29 to October 24, provides University of Florida employees with the opportunity to reassess their benefits and make changes to their various state-sponsored insurance policies. Now is the time for employees to carefully review health, life, and supplemental insurance as well as flexible benefits needs.
Employees should note that, as a result of legislation passed earlier this year, the University […]
Published: Oct 4th, 2003
Pramod Khargonekar, Chair
As you know, the Presidential search is now in its final phase. The Search Committee will be conducting interviews on Monday and Tuesday at the Hilton. These interviews will be web-cast in real time. The committee will select finalists on late Tuesday afternoon. Finalists will be interviewed by the trustees, and they will hold a number of fora with faculty, students, community members etc. on Wednesday. The Board of Trustees will make a final decision on late Wednesday afternoon. The […]
Published: Oct 2nd, 2003
Gail F. Baker, Vice President for Public Relations
The University of Florida Presidential Search Committee will interview candidates for president next week and on Wednesday will forward a list of finalists to the UF Board of Trustees from which to choose the school’s next leader.
The board is expected to interview the finalists Wednesday and announce its selection that evening. The finalists also will participate Wednesday in a series of question-and-answer forums with UF faculty, students, administrators and community members.
“The search is rapidly coming […]
Published: Sep 26th, 2003
Charles E. Frazier, Vice Provost for Information Technology
The Office of Academic Technology is seeking proposals from UF faculty to conduct projects that improve teaching and learning outcomes. The purposes of the grants are to facilitate redesign of instructional approaches to enhance quality of teaching using technology and to reduce collateral costs of instruction.
Funding will be provided for up to $10,000. For details about the program, go to http://www.at.ufl.edu/ATGrants.
Published: Sep 25th, 2003
John Madey, Director, CNS-Telecommunications
Effective October 1, 2003, CNS-Telecom is pleased to announce a lower long distance rate alternative for the campus. This new service is for on campus faculty and staff numbers starting with the prefix of 392, 846, 294 and 273.
The new long distance rate will be 5.5 cents a minute versus the current 8.0 cents a minute – a savings of over 30%. This rate is for both intrastate (within state) and interstate (out of state) calls. To take advantage […]
Published: Sep 24th, 2003
Charles E. Frazier, Vice Provost for Information Technology
The UF IT Security Team has developed an incident response plan to protect the campus network, hosts, and data from the threat of an anticipated new worm that will exploit a vulnerability found in most Microsoft Windows operating systems. The details of the plan are not being published to this publicly archived list, but it is important that you be informed of the seriousness of this problem so that you can ensure appropriate action is […]
Published: Sep 24th, 2003
Larry T. Ellis, Director Division of Human Resources
So that employees may obtain essential information about work performance, university policy requires that employees with more than six months of service be formally evaluated by their supervisors on an annual basis.
Exempt TEAMS Employees
Exempt TEAMS employees should be formally evaluated within the 30 days prior to the end date of their contracts. Departments will not receive an appraisal reminder notice (appraisal label) for exempt TEAMS employees—it will be the responsibility of each department to maintain […]
Published: Sep 24th, 2003
Pamela J. Bernard, Vice President and General Counsel
Attached are copies of the Notices of Proposed Rulemaking for rules which are proposed for adoption or revision by the University. Please distribute and post this memorandum and the notices upon receipt. Note that the Rule Hearing on a rule listed in the Notices will be held at 10:30 a.m. on October 17, 2003, in Room 346 of the J. Wayne Reitz Union, if requested in writing by 5:00 p.m., on October 15, 2003. The […]
Published: Sep 23rd, 2003
Michael V. McKee, University Controller; John Madey, Director, CNS – Telecommunications
The University incurs significant costs for telephone usage from long distance toll calls, credit card calls, cellular telephone charges, telephone charges reimbursed while on travel status, and for monthly service charges. It is the responsibility of each department to maintain an adequate system of internal control to ensure that calls and telephone related expenses are for official University business. In general all departments must certify the business nature on invoices of all […]
Published: Sep 19th, 2003
Chuck Frazier, Vice Provost for Information Technology
The University of Florida Office of Information Technology is sponsoring the sixth annual Information Technology Security Awareness Day on Wednesday, October 8, 2003, in the J. Wayne Reitz Union auditorium, from 8:30 am to 4:15 pm.
Please join us for this informative day of events. ITSA Day features local and national experts who will share a variety of practical guidelines to help network administrators improve the security of their information resources. Vendors are available in the gallery […]
