It isn’t uncommon to find UNF students
volunteering to help build a HabiJax home. What’s more unusual,
however, is to find UNF students helping HabiJax
officials schedule a major change in emphasis for the organization.
Dr. Maged Malek, an assistant professor in the Building Construction
Management Program, recently invited a top HabiJax official to a
class to listen to presentations by students on how best to maximize
resources and use volunteer labor..
Bank
of America makes $175,000 scholarship gift
UNF President Anne Hopkins and
Howard Serkin, (right) president of the UNF Foundation Board
accept a check for $175,000 from Cecil
"Mac" Holley, Bank of America president for Northeast
Florida, during a recent ceremony on campus.
In response to a mandate from President Anne Hopkins to look
for ways UNF's operations can become more
effective and efficient, the University community has
submitted more than 170 suggestions.
Focus
It took two special sessions to get the job done, but the
Florida Legislature finally approved the school
code rewrite legislation last month providing the broad
powers that had been promised to individual boards of trustees
at each of the state's 11 universities.
Access to Excellence
The first students to benefit from a gift of more than $1
million by eight Northeast Florida hospitals
which will address the area's acute nursing shortage are taking
classes at UNF this summer.
Florida
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