The Ocala Campus Student Life Department is looking for volunteers to assist with Welcome Stations around the Ocala Campus on Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 19 and 20, for one hour between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Locations will be Center Lawn, outside the bookstore in Building 36 and in the lobby of the Ewers Century
CF faculty and staff members may be eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness. Data was released this year that only one percent (864 of 86,006) of applicants have been approved. The top three reasons for PSLF application rejection were qualifying payments, missing information and no eligible loans. If you would like more information about Public
Congratulations to CF Baseball player James Nix on being named National Junior College Athletic Association Baseball First Team All-American! Nix is first Patriot player in 15 years to receive the honor. From walk-on to Major League Baseball draft pick and University of South Carolina signee, James’ Cinderella story continues to inspire. Read more here.
Congratulations to the following CF employees who will represent the Association of Florida Colleges CF Chapter for 2019-2020. President: Ron Kielty, Information Technology President-Elect: Victoria Colleli, Access Services Vice President: Cynthia Moody, Business and Technology Secretary: Tina Banner, Marketing and Public Relations Treasurer: Cara Bennett, Information Technology Immediate Past President: Sharon Altany, Conference Services Citrus
The Appleton Museum of Art joins museums nationwide in participating in the 10th summer of Blue Star Museums, a program that provides free admission to our nation’s active-duty military personnel and their families now through Sept. 1. The Appleton is pleased to extend this offer to Veterans. Blue Star Museums is an initiative of the
May 30, 2019 Good morning, team, We welcomed members of the Lockheed Martin leadership team to our District Board of Trustees meeting Wednesday, where they recognized our partnership with a plaque commemorating the STEMcon event held in March. The event welcomed middle school students to campus for demonstrations and hands-on activities in Science, Technology, Engineering
CF has recently partnered with FATV’s award-winning GetAnswers service and now provides an “Ask CF” function on the Financial Aid page of the CF website. “Ask CF” is an artificially intelligent chatbot available to answer financial aid questions 24/7/365. It quickly answers questions using a combination of short text-based answers, engaging videos and links to
CF will conduct a test of its RAVE Alert emergency notification system for all CF campus locations on Thursday, May 16, between noon and 12:30 p.m., which is between second and third class periods. Students, faculty and staff are enrolled automatically and may receive messages via text, phone and email. To update your preferences, login
Employees had a great time at the 31st Annual Employee Service and Recognition Event on Friday, May 3, from playing campus trivia to watching the President’s Staff and Dr. Henningsen engage in the ultimate CF Game Show. Service awards, faculty recognition, PRIDE service awards and annual fundraising chairs were recognized along with our annual Gabor
Congratulations, everyone! We achieved a record high 95% student satisfaction rating on the Rate-Us-Now survey for the first quarter of 2019. Once again, CF employees are hitting it out of the ball park with service. Check out the first quarter results report Recognize someone with a WOW! WOW! Card Form (Online submission of form must be
At the College of Central Florida, we measure our engagement in a number of ways, including YOUR leadership on community boards, participation in community activities, and more. We are asking you to share your community involvement for this fiscal year (July 1, 2018, through June 30, 2019) as a board member or volunteer with organizations
Interested in yoga or just curious? CF Corporate College is promoting a yoga course in the fall and would like your feedback. Please answer this short two-question survey by Friday, May 10. https://www.research.net/r/265RP9R
April 24, 2019 Good morning, team, We are just days away from the end of the semester and we have much to celebrate! I had an opportunity to share some of our successes at the American Association of Community Colleges Annual Convention in Orlando last week. Dr. Jillian Ramsammy, vice president of Institutional Effectiveness and
At the Association of Florida Colleges and Career and Professional Employees Council Appreciation Breakfast, Jesse DelPrado from Advising passed the Whale Done Award to Cheryl Metz from Admissions and Records. Jesse shared how Cheryl helps to resolve critical issues with students that would otherwise delay their enrollment at the college. With the recent implementation of
March 29, 2019 Good afternoon, CF team, I hope that you enjoyed time with friends and family during spring break last week. It has been such a busy week back that it seems like spring break was a month ago. We celebrated members of the Kappa Nu chapter of Phi Theta Kappa at the spring
Congratulations to our CF baseball team who went from preseason unranked to National Junior College Athletic Association No. 1, per the first official NJCAA Baseball Division 1 National Rankings released by the association on March 5. CF is off to one of the hottest starts in all of juco baseball, currently the only NJCAA Division 1 program in
The Ocala Campus Student Activities Board is partnering with Two Men and a Truck for “Movers For Moms.” They are collecting nonperishable items to share with the women’s shelter in Marion County. Items may be dropped off in Student Life, Building 11, through May 10. Donations include the following: canned beans dry beans peanut butter
More than 1,000 literary classics, 300 books on careers, 600 books from the Bloom’s literary criticism series, 100 sacred texts (including the 50 volume Sacred Books of the East), and 500 other titles in the humanities, social sciences, science, and current events from Facts on File and other publishers have just been added to the
A rendering of the CF Health Science Technology Education Center, which will become a model for health care education. Dear CF Team: It has been a busy few weeks for the college, and I have much good news to share. First, I would like to inform you about some college reorganizations that were ratified by
