The UCF Downtown Campus at Creative Village groundbreaking will be taking place from
10:30 - 11:40 am on Tuesday, May 11 at the Center for Emerging Media. The groundbreaking ceremony will be attended by UCF President John C. Hitt, Valencia College President Sanford C. Shugart and City of Orlando Mayor, Buddy Dyer. Please RSVP to the event by May 4 if you wish to represent the Nicholson School of Communication at this event. All are welcome to attend.

You are invited to attend lunch and open forum with Dr. Regina Francies, Human Communication GEP candidate, Tuesday, April 10, Noon – 1 p.m., NSC 254.

You are invited to attend lunch and open forum with Dr. Suzy Prentiss, Human Communication GAA&GEP candidate, Monday, April 12th, 12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m., NSC 254.

Faculty requesting graduate student assistance for the 2017-2018 academic year are requested to use the NSC GTA Request form. To access the form, please click the button below. Once the form has been completed, please return it to Debbie.Doyle@ucf.edu.

As a symbol of their appreciation, the UCF Latino Faculty & Staff Association, LaFaSA, has gifted the Nicholson School of Communication, a LaFaSA sponsor, with a painting. The painting will be on display on the announcements board behind the administrative suite.

The UCF community will gather for the Eternal Knights Memorial Service in the Student Union Pegasus Ballroom at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 11. Please join Eternal Knights as they remember 18 UCF students who have passed away this academic year. This is an opportunity for families and friends to join the entire UCF community in a solemn tribute to their loved ones. If you cannot attend the ceremony, please join Eternal Knights by participating in a 36 second, campus-wide moment of silence on Tuesday, April 11, at 3:30 p.m. - this marks two seconds for each Eternal Knight.

The final Provost Forum of 2016-17, focused on funding and philanthropy, is be held at 9 a.m. Thursday, April 13, in the Morgridge International Reading Center.

The funding and philanthropy forum will feature Mike Morsberger, CEO of the UCF Foundation, and Bill Merck, Vice President for Administration and Finance and Chief Financial Officer, as well as faculty and staff from across campus who are helping to move the needle on these important charges.

The winner of the Marchioli Collective Impact Ideation Award also will be announced at the forum, presented by Lisa Guion Jones, Associate Provost for Strategy and Special Assistant to the President. To celebrate the new award, the forum has been extended from 60 to 90 minutes.

If you cannot attend these forums in person, you may watch them in real time online at http://oir.ucf.edu/webcast/ or visit the Provost's website at http://provost.ucf.edu/2016-17-provost-forums/ on April 13 for a link to the webcast and presentation materials.

Refreshments also will be served at the event.

The General Counsel's office would like to extend an invitation to attend a Contract and Cookies Workshop  from 9:00am to 11:00am on Monday, April 10, and from 1:30pm to 3:30pm on Monday, April 17, both in the Student Union, Garden Key Meeting Room, Room 221.

"Contracts and Cookies" will cover how to submit a contract through CobbleStone, the university's contract management system; who must review contracts and how they do so; what constitutes a contract; which UCF employees are authorized to sign contracts; and related topics.

The university engages in business contracts and relationships that benefit the university community in many ways.  Employees have a responsibility to uphold the university's obligations and to act in the interest of our institution.

"Across the Board" is a new website that provides employees information about exclusive and non-exclusive contracts.  The site provides additional resources and links to help employees learn information about our business services partners. The goal is to ensure that we all do our part to maintain these beneficial relationships.

It is important that UCF faculty and staff be familiar with university guidelines, and this includes those relating to filming on campus. UCF News and Information should be informed, any time anyone films in a space on campus, including inside an office or in an outside area. This applies not just to the media, or commercial groups, but to Faculty, staff, and students in all Departments.

For more information, please refer to the guidelines below, specifically the section about ‘Reporting and Filming on Campus’:

http://today.ucf.edu/reporting-on-ucf/

Steven Wolf, president of the Florida chapter of the United States Harness Racing Writers Association (USHWA), has announced that the chapter is now accepting applications for its 2017 Allen J. Finkelson Scholarship Awards.Preference for these scholarship awards will be given to a student majoring in journalism, communications or veterinarian related studies. On average, there have been up to $3,000 awarded annually in scholarship money. For more information or to receive an online application, contact via e-mail to Thomas H. Hicks at renparlc@gate.net or Steven Wolf at stevenwolf1956@gmail.com.