Memos Category
Published: Mar 1st, 2016
Michael V. McKee, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
In an effort to better reflect the range of proactive, customer-oriented services it provides to the UF community, UF Purchasing will change its name to UF Procurement Services, effective March 1. This name-change better represents the unit’s evaluative and strategic services—including market research, vendor solicitation, competitive sourcing, contract negotiation, compliance and cost-reducing solutions—as well as its traditional purchasing services. The change also reflects a national trend toward this broader descriptor.
Procurement Services’ professionals provide a […]
Published: Feb 26th, 2016
Joseph Glover, Provost and Senior Vice President
The textbook adoption system for Fall 2016 is now available to faculty and departments to submit their Fall 2016 textbook adoptions and materials requirements. Please visit http://www.textadoption.ufl.edu/ to enter Fall 2016 adoptions. The deadline for Fall adoptions is March 21, 2016. This date coincides with the beginning of advance registration and when students can view their course textbook and materials requirements. This information is also available online to all bookstores to help them ensure appropriate arrival […]
Published: Feb 25th, 2016
Joseph Glover, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
The Search Committee for the Dean of the College of Design, Construction and Planning has selected three finalists who will be visiting the campus during March.
Dr. Maria Perbellini, currently Associate Dean for Graduate Programs in the College of Architecture at Texas Tech University, will be on campus March 14 and 15
Dr. Chimay Anumba, currently Department Head of Architectural Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, will be on campus March 17 and 18
Dr. Gerrit […]
Published: Feb 19th, 2016
Dr. Charles E. Lane, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
After more than 32 years of service in higher education, Paula Varnes Fussell has announced her retirement. She will retire as Vice President for Human Resource Services on May 31. Accordingly, we have launched a search to fill the vacancy.
Reporting to the Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, the Vice President for Human Resource Services is a member of the President’s Cabinet and is commissioned to provide leadership developing effective human […]
Published: Feb 10th, 2016
Joseph Glover, Provost and Senior Vice President
The textbook adoption system for Summer 2016 is now available to faculty and departments to submit their Summer 2016 textbook adoptions and materials requirements. Please visit http://www.textadoption.ufl.edu/ to enter Summer 2016 adoptions. The deadline for summer adoptions is March 21, 2016. This date coincides with the beginning of advance registration and when students can view their course textbook and materials requirements. This information is also available online to all bookstores to help them ensure appropriate arrival […]
Published: Feb 8th, 2016
Joseph Glover, Provost and Elias Eldayrie, VP &CIO
The Electronic Mail Policy can be found at: http://www.it.ufl.edu/policies/email/policy-electronic-mail/
This policy provides guidance on the use of electronic mail used in the course of conducting university business. This includes:
University of Florida electronic mail may not be automatically forwarded to a non-university provided or approved service.
University of Florida business must be conducted using an assigned ufl.edu email address.
Emails on the university mail system have the following default retention settings:
Inbox and Sent Items: 3 years from creation or receipt
Deleted […]
Published: Feb 8th, 2016
Joseph Glover, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Faculty members being considered for tenure, permanent status, and/or promotion in the academic year 2016-17 must be made aware of the website URL where they can find the University’s “Guidelines and Information Regarding the Tenure, Permanent Status and Promotion Process for 2016-2017”. This information also should be given to new faculty to familiarize them with our tenure and promotion process. Faculty should be aware, however, that the “Guidelines” are updated annually.
Academic Personnel will […]
Published: Feb 2nd, 2016
Zina L. Evans, Ph.D., Vice President for Enrollment Management and Associate Provost
Elias G. Eldayrie, Vice President and CIO
We are pleased to announce the launch of a multi-year effort to modernize and unify student services systems. The Campus-wide Modernization Program to Advance Student Services—or COMPASS—will be implemented in a series of releases over the next five years. The migration of student self-service functions referenced in a Jan. 27 administrative memo that will begin later this month represents just the first step toward the […]
Published: Jan 28th, 2016
Donna Stricker, Director, Presidential Events and Commencement
Ceremonies: This spring, the university-wide commencement ceremonies will once again be held in Ben Hill Griffin Stadium (rain or shine), due to renovations occurring at the O’Connell Center.
There will be four university-wide commencement ceremonies coordinated by the President’s Office that will be held at 7 pm on Thursday, April 28; Friday, April 29; Saturday, April 30; and Sunday, May 1 in Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. The Doctoral Degree Ceremony will be held on Thursday, April 28, […]
Published: Jan 27th, 2016
Dr. Zina L. Evans, Vice President for Enrollment Management and Associate Provost and Elias G. Eldayrie, Vice President and CIO
We are pleased to announce the integration of student self-service into ONE.UF. ONE.UF is designed to be UF’s unified, self-service portal, combining functions from various self-service systems to provide an enhanced user experience. The ONE.UF effort began two years ago. Several student functions are available now in ONE.UF, with additional features on the way.
Using the ONE.UF portal, students can access self-service applications on […]
