Memos Category
Published: Apr 2nd, 2012
Scott Fox, Director, Transportation and Parking Services
All University of Florida and Shands faculty and staff parking decals will expire on May 1, 2012. Please order by April 15th to assure receiving your new decal on time and avoid receiving parking tickets. There are two ways to order:
1. ONLINE (recommended): Benefits-eligible employees purchasing decals by payroll deduction may order online at www.parking.ufl.edu and will receive their decals in the mail.
2. BY MAIL: OPS employees and those wishing to pay by check may visit […]
Published: Mar 23rd, 2012
David P. Norton, Vice President for Research
The University of Florida has been issued new F&A (indirect) rates for federally sponsored research awards. New rates are listed at http://www.cg.cfo.ufl.edu/indirectcostrates.php . F&A rates will increase on 7/1/2012 and again on 7/1/2014. The following provides details on the impact of these increases on Existing Awards, New Proposals, and Pending Awards:
Existing Awards Officially Received by UF before March 1, 2012: For awards officially received by UF before March 1, the old F&A rate will apply to […]
Published: Mar 22nd, 2012
Joseph Glover, Provost and Senior Vice President
This is a reminder that Deans or appropriate Directors may nominate Professors for the award of Distinguished Professor for the 2012-2013 awards cycle. These nominations follow the same timeline, forms, and process as for promotion (including the solicitation of external letters of evaluation) except that candidates cannot nominate themselves.
Candidates with appointments in non-college units with a direct report to a Vice President must be evaluated by the unit and by the college where their tenure is […]
Published: Mar 21st, 2012
Joseph Glover, Provost and Senior Vice President
Faculty members being considered for tenure, permanent status, and/or promotion in the academic year 2012-13 must receive a copy of this memorandum along with the website where they can find the University’s “Guidelines and Information Regarding the Tenure, Permanent Status and Promotion Process for 2012-2013” and “Promotion, Tenure & Permanent Status Template 2012-2013” (http://www.aa.ufl.edu/tenure/). These documents also should be given to new faculty to familiarize them with our tenure and promotion process. Faculty should be aware, […]
Published: Mar 15th, 2012
Susan A. Blair, Chief Privacy Officer
Last year the Faculty Senate Infrastructure Committee asked the Privacy Office to develop a short faculty-specific training about privacy requirements for student records. An abbreviated version of Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) Basics, required web-based training for all who access University of Florida electronic student records, is now available through HR Training & Development. This shorter training module is intended for faculty members who are familiar with student record privacy issues, but may need to […]
Published: Mar 9th, 2012
Curtis A. Reynolds, Vice President for Business Affairs & Economic Development
We are inviting the campus community to join us for the 21st Annual Small Business Conference & Trade Fair. The event is being hosted by the University of Florida’s Small Business & Vendor Diversity Relations Division. It will be held at the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center on March 22, 2012 from 9 am to 4 pm.
There are a number of ways the UF community may participate and help make this […]
Published: Mar 8th, 2012
David Norton, PhD., Vice President for Research; Matthew Fajack, Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
In order to provide researchers with timely, accurate, and comprehensive information about their grants, the university is launching a project to design intuitive reporting tools for use in the management of sponsored projects.
Key outcomes of this reporting initiative will be to design, develop, and provide tools and reports – geared specifically toward investigators—that are easy to use and will help manage sponsored projects by answering recurring questions. What […]
Published: Mar 7th, 2012
Dr. Henry Frierson, Associate Vice President and Dean
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 members. In an effort to continue to promote doctoral studies and to recognize excellence in doctoral student mentoring by our faculty, awards are given each year to five faculty doctoral advisors selected on a competitive basis. The Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award winners for the 2011-2012 competition are:
Gillian Lord
Spanish and Portuguese […]
Published: Mar 5th, 2012
Michael V. McKee, University Controller
I am pleased to announce that we have received final approval from the federal Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) for our new Indirect Cost rates. These new rates have been negotiated with the DHHS to apply to our sponsored programs. The rates have been negotiated through fiscal year ending June 30, 2015. All projects with beginning dates on or after July 1, 2012 will be subject to the new rates. Please visit http://www.cg.cfo.ufl.edu/indirectcostrates.php and select Facilities […]
Published: Mar 2nd, 2012
Joseph Glover, Provost and Senior Vice President
Faculty and departments should submit their Summer 2012 and Fall 2012 textbook adoptions and course materials requirements at http://www.textadoption.ufl.edu/ by March 26, 2012 so that this information is available to students during advance registration. This information is also available online to all bookstores to help them ensure appropriate arrival of texts for Summer and Fall terms and better prices for student book buybacks.
Students can view Summer and Fall course textbook and course materials requirements online during […]
