UF Faculty Senate

Dear @UF Faculty: Please see your e-mail inboxes for a thank you and farewell message from me. It has been an honor to serve as your Faculty Senate chair. 🧡💙🐊 - Amanda

Thank you, Dr. Frank Bova for the @UF Faculty Senate's 4rd Distinguished Professor Lecture of 22–23: "Changes in the Bench-to-Bedside Development Process: 1977-2023." Watch here! Dr. B is affiliated w/@UFNeurosurgery, @UFMedicine, @UFWertheim, & @UFVetMed. ufl.zoom.us/rec/play/gBRLnXT…

Wrapping up my year-long term as @UF Faculty Senate Chair (last day: 5/31), I am thrilled to announce the Senate's new leadership team, w/Chair Danaya Wright (L) taking over June 1, me (middle) becoming past chair, & Dr. @sarahdlynne (R) beginning as your new chair-elect! -Amanda

@UF Senate meeting TODAY, 3-5, @reitzunion Chamber & streaming live here: mediasite.video.ufl.edu/Medi… Agenda highlights: Reports from Pres. @BenSasse, Chair @Dr_Phalin, & Provost Glover🔶Senate Chair-Elect Election🔷Provost Qualities Resolution🔶Multi-Yr Contracts Resolution🔷 1/5

Attn @UF faculty & staff: See your UF email inbox 4 date/time/Zoom link info re provost search listening sessions. Session 1: TODAY, 4/18, 2-3. Session 2: FRIDAY, 4/21, 10-11 Note from the chair: Pls keep emailing me provost nominations! I've received several👍🧡💙🐊 Thks-Amanda

Thank you, Dr. Valeria Gordon of @UFDentistry for delivering the @UF Faculty Senate's 3rd Distinguished Professor Lecture of 22–23: "Bridging Research Results to Clinical Care Using the PBRN Model." Did you miss it? Watch here! mediasite.video.ufl.edu/Medi…

Attn @UF Faculty: Please check your inboxes for a message from Senate Chair @Dr_Phalin w/updates on HB999; the provost search; & the latest meetings of the @FLBOG, BOT, & Senate.🔶🔷🐊

Thank you, Dr. Mo Wang of @UFWarrington for delivering the @UF Faculty Senate's 2nd Distinguished Professor Lecture of 22–23, “Is Retirement a Curse or a Blessing? Work & Retirement Pathways Matter.” If you missed it, no worries—watch here: warrington.video.ufl.edu/Med…

@UF Senate meeting TODAY, 3-5pm @reitzunion Chamber & streaming live here: mediasite.video.ufl.edu/Medi… Several important information items on today's agenda, a 🧵1/3

Good morning. Please watch day 2 of the @UF Board of Trustees meeting, livestreaming here: mediasite.video.ufl.edu/Medi…

Good morning. The @UF Board of Trustees meets today & tomorrow, 3/16 & 3/17. Please watch the livestream here: mediasite.video.ufl.edu/Medi…

Finished. @GovRonDeSantis wishes everyone "Godspeed."

@GovRonDeSantis says he expects applications to increase at @NewCollegeofFL. Says in #Florida there's a lot of room to be optimistic, that universities should have accountability, which will be good for FL taxpayers & students & will allow university system to recruit faculty.

@GovRonDeSantis says #SCOTUS will nix racial preferences in admissions, but that univs. will try to engineer DEI results in a more "opaque" way but "that is not the way it's gonna roll here."

Scott Yenor: One important piece #Florida is trying to do is highlight the importance of citizenship in a constitutional republic. ... Education is acquiring the tools for citizenship. ... The greatest crime of DEI is wiping out an accurate accounting of our history."

@GovRonDeSantis says there is no interest among legacy media in exposing what's going on DEI-wise in our education institutions.

@FLBOG Chancellor Ray Rodrigues says #Florida education is one of the best investments in the country. Says we will not lower our standards as we worship at the altar of DEI.

@GovRonDeSantis says there are faculty interested in coming to @NewCollegeofFL and other institutions where there is no orthodoxy.

@GovRonDeSantis says DEI has effectively become a scam bc people are making a lot of money off of this. Asks Rufo to explain. He says it is a real thing, that "communists are the best capitalists." Says DEI workers would be unemployable in the private sector & get $ cronies...