1 / 10

Undergraduate Affairs

UF's Undergraduate Affairs office oversees academic programs, advising, and support services. Their mission is to provide quality instruction, research opportunities, and co-curricular programs that empower students to serve locally and globally. They aim to develop a challenging learning environment and enhance teaching and advising. The office coordinates curriculum development, reviews proposals, and administers scholarships. Key initiatives include implementing task force recommendations, general education revision, fostering academic integrity, promoting undergraduate research, and improving graduation rates. UF strives to equip graduates with the skills and leadership qualities for success in various fields and to be leaders on the national and international stage.

parley
Download Presentation

Undergraduate Affairs

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Undergraduate Affairs 238 Tigert Hall Bernard A. Mair Associate Provost Professor of Mathematics New Faculty Orientation, August 17, 2011

  2. Mission UF is committed to providing instruction of the highest quality, opportunities for research and innovation, and co-curricular programs that build students’ capacity for understanding themselves and the world, while fostering their commitment to the service of others locally, nationally and internationally.

  3. UG Admissions Data

  4. UG Demographics

  5. Graduation Rates

  6. UG Affairs Office • UF-wide leadership for, and oversight of, UG and Professional academic programs, advising, and academic support services • Promote excellence in teaching and advising, and lead efforts to provide a challenging and engaging learning environment • Coordinates with other UF offices to develop UF policies and procedures to ensure compliance with State regulations – reports on compliance to state agencies • Academic Affairs liaison to Faculty Senate on all UG academic issues, including the University Curriculum and General Education Committees

  7. UG Affairs Office • Develops and coordinates review processes for curriculum development • Reviews and approves proposals for all changes to UG curriculum • Performs audits for universal tracking system and graduation requirements • Administrative oversight of CPET, CUR, HHMI Science for Life, Honors, McNair, OAS, ROTC • Administers a number of scholarships

  8. Teaching Tips • Minus grades (C or C-?) • Syllabus Policy - http://www.aa.ufl.edu/policy/SyllabiPolicy.pdf • Teaching Evaluations – mandatory, online • Be careful of advising students to drop course ($) • Inspire, engage, and challenge • Teaching and research go together

  9. Initiatives • Lead in the implementation of recommendations from the UG and Honors Task Force reports • General Education – revision, assessment • Academic Integrity • Undergraduate Research • Graduation Rates

  10. Goals UF graduates will be equipped with the skills, abilities, training, and qualities to succeed in increasingly competitive, creative, technological, and global occupations; they will be prepared for graduate training and research; and to assume “the scientific, technological, academic, political, and creative leadership” on the national and international stage. UF will develop innovative ways to combine educational and research programs that will be a model for large public research universities.

More Related