Memos Category
Published: Aug 29th, 2013
Dr. Angel Kwolek-Folland, Associate Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs
The Southeastern Conference (SEC) Visiting Faculty Travel Grant Program is intended to enhance faculty collaboration that stimulates scholarly initiatives between SEC universities.
This initiative gives faculty from one SEC university the opportunity to travel to another SEC campus to: exchange ideas; develop grant proposals; conduct research; consult with faculty and/or students; offer lectures or symposia; or engage in whatever activities are agreeable to the visitor and host unit.
The University of Florida can select a […]
Published: Aug 26th, 2013
Angel Kwolek-Folland, Associate Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs
The Provost’s Office has created a new form for use by chairs and deans when requesting extension of a faculty member’s tenure probationary period. The form is available at https://aa.ufl.edu/policies/tenure-and-promotion-information/ and https://aa.ufl.edu/resources/resources-for-administrators/ . Please use this form for all requests for extension.
If you have any questions about the form or the policy, please contact Dr. Kwolek-Folland at akf@aa.ufl.edu
Published: Aug 26th, 2013
Angel Kwolek-Folland, Associate Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs
This is a reminder that syllabi for all courses and sections offered each semester must be posted on publicly accessible UF websites a minimum of three days prior to the first day of classes.
This information must be retained on this public website for at least three complete semesters – with summer counting as a single semester.
A college may choose to meet this requirement by posting all syllabi on a single site or on the […]
Published: Aug 23rd, 2013
Jamie Lewis Keith, Vice President and General Counsel
It is time to prepare proposed changes to University of Florida regulations to be effective in the spring of 2014. If you or those in your units would like to propose changes to any University of Florida regulation (refer to the University of Florida Regulations website at http://regulations.ufl.edu ), please submit the proposed changes to the General Counsel’s Office by January 17, 2014 so they may become effective in 2014.
Please include the following in the submission for each proposed changed regulation:
1. the […]
Published: Aug 22nd, 2013
Robert W. Miller, Associate Vice President for Business Affairs
This is the annual reminder that Pepsi has the exclusive pouring rights contract for UF. This means that only Pepsi products (including Aquafina bottled water and Gatorade) may be served on campus at events as wide ranging as a faculty meeting, dean’s luncheon, staff retreat or a special event. Also please remember, there is no fee for Pepsi to deliver your order to your office or event.
Keep in mind you may see some Pepsi […]
Published: Aug 22nd, 2013
Joe Glover, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
In an effort to ensure fair compensation of all University of Florida employees, the university establishes a minimum salary for all Postdoctoral Associates at the University of Florida, effective October 1, 2013, to be no less than the minimum graduate student stipends. The minimum graduate student stipend amounts, effective October 1, are as follows:
9-Month appointments (19.5 biweekly periods)
FTE
Annual
Biweekly Amount
1.0
$22,000
$1,128.20
.50
$11,000
$564.10
.33
$7,260
$372.30
.25
$5,500
$282.05
12-Month appointments (26.1 biweekly periods)
FTE
Annual
Biweekly Amount
1.0
$29,446
$1,128.20
.50
$14,723
$564.10
.33
$9,717
$372.30
.25
$7,362
$282.05
Postdoctoral Associate minimums will match whatever graduate student stipend minimums […]
Published: Aug 21st, 2013
Angel Kwolek-Folland, Associate Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs
The Provost’s Office has created a new form for use by chairs and deans when requesting extension of a faculty member’s tenure probationary period. The form is available at https://aa.ufl.edu/policies/tenure-and-promotion-information/ and https://aa.ufl.edu/resources/resources-for-administrators/ . Please use this form for all requests for extension.
If you have any questions about the form or the policy, please contact Dr. Kwolek-Folland at akf@aa.ufl.edu
Published: Aug 13th, 2013
Dave Kratzer, Vice President for Student Affairs
Fall 2013 Residence Hall Check-in begins Friday August 16 and continues through Tuesday August 20 campus-wide.
The UF community will be welcoming around 7,600 campus residents and their families.
For UF faculty and staff working the break between Summer B/C and Fall, please plan for impacts on all campus roads and near all student parking lots as well as in these staff parking lots as residents park on a short term basis to unload their vehicles and check […]
Published: Aug 12th, 2013
Dr. Angel Kwolek-Folland, Associate Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs
Please advise new department chairs and directors in your area of the upcoming Academic Administrators Leadership Seminar series and encourage them to save the dates and register early.
The series is designed to bring together department chairs, directors, associate deans and deans in discussions about academic administrative management at UF, and to provide ongoing training and updated information about management issues for those who are new to their administrative roles.
A proposed schedule of subjects […]
Published: Aug 9th, 2013
Joseph Glover, Provost and Senior Vice President
University of Florida Levin College of Law Dean Robert H. Jerry, II has announced his intention to step down as dean, effective June 30, 2014.
Dean Jerry became the Levin College of Law’s 15th dean in 2003, and will have led the college for 11 years, which will tie him for service as the second-longest serving law dean since the school was founded in 1909 and one of the longest-serving law deans nationwide. Under his thoughtful and inspired […]
