Memos Category
Published: Mar 14th, 2002
Dennis C. Jett, Dean, UF International Center
Dr. Madeleine Green, Vice President of the American Council on Education and Director of the Center for Institutional and International Initiatives will be at UF next month to discuss the research ACE has done regarding internationalization. Her talk will focus on the challenges Research I Universities face in this regard.
Dr. Green’s presentation will be on April 3, 2002 at 10:30- 11:30am in 282 Reitz Union. I hope that you will be able to attend or send […]
Published: Mar 14th, 2002
Charles E. Young, President
I am pleased to announce two new appointments at the University of Florida Health Science Center: Dr. Douglas Barrett, who currently serves as chair of the department of pediatrics at UF’s College of Medicine, has been named vice president for health affairs (VPHA), and Dr. C. Craig Tisher, who currently serves as senior associate dean of medicine, has been named interim dean for the College of Medicine.
The appointment of a separate vice president for health affairs and dean for […]
Published: Mar 11th, 2002
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 will be held at 10:00 a.m. on April 2, 2002, in Room 284 of the J. Wayne Reitz Union, if requested in writing by 5:00 p.m., on April 1, 2002.
NOTE: Please remember that by law you are required […]
Published: Mar 11th, 2002
Dan Hodges, Coordinator, Admissions/Registration
Registration instructions and information for the Summer and Fall 2002 semesters are available this semester via the World-Wide Web. You can access and print out this information by pointing your Web browser to the addresses below. Information covered includes registration dates, important GATA screens, and contact information for those who can assist withregistration concerns.
Summer Registration
http://www.reg.ufl.edu/ourweb/memos/regst/summer2002/regscsum.html
Fall Registration
http://www.reg.ufl.edu/ourweb/memos/regst/fall2002/regscfal.html
Published: Mar 7th, 2002
Kenneth Berns, Vice President for Health Affairs
All faculty, staff and students are cordially invited to the Second UF Health Sciences Technology Fair, Tuesday, March 12, 2002 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. This year’s theme is “E-Health: Science, Services, Solutions.”
Plan to attend presentations, panels, demonstrations, hands-on training and exhibits during this day long free event, hosted by UF IAIMS and the UF Health Science Center Libraries. Visit http://www.health.ufl.edu/iaims/ for program information, times and locations.
The keynote speech, “E-Health: Scientific Challenges and Practical Solutions […]
Published: Mar 5th, 2002
Chuck Frazier, Vice Provost for Information Technology
I write to announce UF’s new IT Security Policy and IT Security Procedures. They are effective as issued today. These policies and procedures were developed in the IT Advisory Committee structure and are intended to address security needs and goals for the university. The policies take into account comments from a recent Computer Network Security Audit. A weakness noted in that audit was the lack of a set of formal university wide expectations for personnel who […]
Published: Mar 5th, 2002
Dennis Jett, Dean, UF International Center
In the aftermath of September 11, obtaining visas for international students has become a much more lengthy process. It is now taking at least 20 to 30 days longer as INS more thoroughly reviews visa applications from abroad.
To avoid delays and minimize the risk of an international student not being able to come to UF because of these delays, the following steps are recommended:
1. Consider giving priority processing to international student applications as your college makes its admission […]
Published: Feb 28th, 2002
Chuck Frazier, Vice Provost for Information Technology
As many of you already know the university has begun a project to improve our enterprise-wide directory services. Current directory services provide information regarding individual names, addresses and phone numbers and support for authentication and authorization for access to a wide variety of computer systems. The improved directory will add information on university organizations, provide support for unit level directory information extensions, support the new UF identifier and will be noticeably more user-friendly. It will also […]
Published: Feb 28th, 2002
David R. Colburn, Provost
I write to remind you of my conversations with the college deans and our commitment to students that we will offer the same number of seats for this coming summer that we offered last summer, especially in critical tracking courses and those courses central to the major. If this is not the case, this office needs to know why. I ask that you inform Associate Provost Joe Glover as soon as possible if there are problems in meeting this […]
Published: Feb 21st, 2002
Gail F. Baker Vice President for Public Relations
The University of Florida announces a public meeting.
Date and Time:
February 25, 2002 at 8:30 a.m. (Committee Meetings)
February 25, 2002 at 2:30 p.m. (Board of Trustees Meeting)
Place:
University of Florida Hotel and Conference Center
Purpose: Meetings of University of Florida Board of Trustees and Board Committees
A copy of the agenda may be obtained by writing to: Dr. Gail F. Baker, Post Office Box 113156, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 or by calling 352-846-3903.
Pursuant to the provisions of […]
