Memos Category
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 […]
Published: Feb 23rd, 2012
Joe Glover, Provost and Senior Vice President
The University of Florida is initiating a search for the next Vice President for Student Affairs. Zina Evans, Vice President for Enrollment Management and Associate Provost, will chair the search committee. Additional information, including notice of search committee meetings, may be found at http://fora.aa.ufl.edu/Provost/SearchCommittees/Search-Committee-for-Vice-President-for-Student-Affairs.
The complete position description is available on the Search Committee site: http://fora.aa.ufl.edu/docs//97//VPSA_Position_Description.pdf
Nominations, applications, and inquiries should be submitted to:
Laurie C. Wilder, Senior Vice President & Managing Director
Porsha L. Williams, Principal
Parker Executive Search
Five Concourse […]
Published: Feb 22nd, 2012
Jamie Lewis Keith, Vice President and General Counsel
Notice of Proposed Regulation Amendment
3.007 Traffic & Parking; Parking Registration
The above Notice of Proposed Regulation Amendment has been published on the University’s official website at http://regulations.ufl.edu.
Thank you.
Published: Feb 20th, 2012
Joseph Glover, Provost and Senior Vice President and Bernard Mair, Associate Provost
It is our pleasure to announce the appointment of Dr. Jeffrey Citty as director of the Innovation Academy effective March 9, 2012.
The Innovation Academy (IA) is an academic program built around a new enrollment model that operates on a spring-summer calendar. Students will be on campus during the spring and summer terms instead of the traditional fall and spring terms, leaving each fall semester free for online courses, study abroad, internships, […]
Published: Feb 16th, 2012
Donna Stricker, Director, Presidential Events and Commencement
Please forward this information to your faculty.
Ceremonies: This spring, there will be five (5) multi-college commencement ceremonies – one (1) Doctoral Degree Ceremony (all Ph.D., Ed.D., Au.D., D.P.M., D.P.T.), 4:00pm, Friday, April 27, 2012; one (1) Masters and Specialist Degree Ceremony (for the following colleges only: Public Health and Health Professions, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Education, Medicine, Business Administration, and Health and Human Performance), 4:00pm Friday, May 4, 2012; and three (3) multi-college Undergraduate Degree Ceremonies […]
