Wouldn’t it be nice if you didn’t have to pay for some healthcare or childcare expenses out of pocket? With a flexible spending account (FSA), you have that option. Many people might not know exactly what an FSA is or how it works, so here are some basics. What is a flexible spending account? Get […]
Virtual Benefits and Wellness Fair kicks off this week Our virtual Benefits and Wellness “Fair” will be held via a webinar series offered throughout the month of October. Register today and tune in live for any of the following sessions that interest you to learn more about your full range of UF benefits and to ask […]
After learning Alachua County Public Schools would be using the same Canvas learning management system this fall that UF uses, Associate Professor Trysh Travis began to worry. She wasn’t concerned about the children: they were adaptable and would learn the new system quickly. Instead, she was thinking about the already stressed family members who would […]
In early May, UF was already looking ahead to lay the groundwork for fall semester when it undertook its return-to-workplace efforts. Gathering the resources needed to send 26,000 faculty and staff through screening and recommended testing in just under two months, providing them with PPE and preparing our facilities for more employees to be back […]
Several UF leaders and some of UF Health’s foremost experts on epidemiology and infectious diseases came together to answer questions about the university’s plans for moving forward together this fall in a town hall held on Tuesday. Faculty and staff were provided the opportunity to ask questions prior to and during the event hosted by […]
Last month, UF Health Screen, Test & Protect introduced saliva testing to replace the uncomfortable nasal swab test you may have undergone over the summer. Both UF Health’s Pathology Laboratories and researchers outside of UF have validated the method as being as accurate and sensitive as nasal swabs. UF faculty, staff and students now receive […]
UF Gator Business Administrator Services (GBAS) and UF Research’s MainSpring initiative will host a town hall for staff next Thursday, Oct. 29, from 3 to 4 p.m. via Zoom. While the session is designed to help ensure business and researcher administrators have the latest information and facts, all staff are invited to attend to learn […]
UF research team studying pandemic’s effects on children and households While many experts are focused on identifying COVID-19 cases and slowing transmission, one UF research team is focused on the pandemic’s fallout on children and households. UF researchers affiliated with UF’s colleges of Public Health and Health Professions, Medicine and Education are analyzing the social effects of the pandemic on local school-aged children and their […]
Benefits Open Enrollment runs Oct. 19 through Nov. 6 UF’s annual Open Enrollment period is your opportunity to add, change or remove benefits enrollment elections for the next plan year. Elections made during this period will take effect on Jan. 1, 2021. This is your only chance to make changes to your benefits each year […]
UF prepares for more face-to-face offerings this spring In a Faculty Senate Town Hall held yesterday afternoon, Provost Joe Glover and Vice President Jodi Gentry discussed the university’s return to a more robust set of face-to-face course offerings during the Spring 2021 semester. Based on the university’s investment into the mechanisms to prevent transmission of COVID-19 and under the ongoing […]
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