C3. Staff and Other Personnel Resources

The school has staff and other personnel adequate to fulfill its stated mission and goals. The stability of resources is a factor in evaluating resource adequacy.

1) A table defining the number of the school’s staff support for the year in which the site visit will take place by role or function in the format of Template C3-1. Designate any staff resources that are shared with other units outside the unit of accreditation.

Table C3-1: Staff Support Role/Function FTE Administration 9.9 Advisement 11.1 Academic Instructional Design 4 Total 25 Clinic Operations Clinic Operations 13 Administration 7.2 Finance 3.2 Human Resource 3.2 Dean’s Office Marketing/Communications 1 Research Administration1 9.2 Information Technology 7.2 Total 31 Administration 12 Business 8 Finance 7 Department Administration Human Resource 2 Marketing/Communications 2 Total 31 Research Administration2 4 Technical3 39.75 Research Information Technology 4 Total 47.75 Grand Total 147.75 1In the dean’s office, research administrative personnel are part of the PHHP grants core (see A1-2f). 2These staff work for individual faculty and/or departments in the to administer grants. 3Research technical staff carry out grant activities, such as data analysis, lab work, ensuring lab protocols are maintained, tracking benchmarks, etc.

2) Provide a narrative description, which may be supported by data if applicable, of the contributions of other personnel.

The college works closely with academic, financial, human resource and research core offices. These include but are not limited to:

• ’s Office The provost who also serves as the senior vice president for academic affairs is the chief academic officer for the of Florida. In this capacity, the provost is responsible for all matters that affect campus academic programs. The provost oversees the quality of program instruction, collaborative research initiatives, and budgetary planning and priorities for academic programs. The Office of the Provost also administers several professional development programs for faculty.

The provost’s office is where the college’s state budgetary authority resides. Thus, the college works with the provost’s office on academic, human resource and financial items.

• Academic Personnel o Registrar: The Office of the University Registrar provides responsive, considerate and knowledgeable service in admissions, registration, enrollment and academic records. The Registrar’s Office ensures adherence to academic policy; creates safeguards and preserves academic records; collects and analyzes critical data; and promotes collaborative, informed enrollment management decisions and creative technology-based solutions. o Bursar: The Bursar’s Office assesses tuition and fees, bills and collects amounts owed to the university, disburses financial aid, processes student refunds, handles Florida Pre-paid and third-party contract billings and collects students’ loans and past due receivable balances. o Career Connections Center: The Career Connections Center is a centralized, comprehensive unit serving 57,000 UF students and alumni. The office provides a diverse range of services, including helping connect job seekers with employers and offering students individualized career education and guidance to enrich their collegiate experience and prepare them for life after graduation. Currently, the college covers .50 FTE costs for an assistant director level career counselor to support PHHP’s programs. This individual is assigned 1.0 FTE to the college. o Dean of Students: The Dean of Students Office creates a culture of care for students, their families, faculty and staff by providing exemplary programs and services designed to enhance students' academic and personal success. o Counseling and Wellness Center: The Counseling and Wellness Center staff strive to help students learn the skills to cope with the stresses of change and growth so they are better able to learn and thrive after their time as a student is complete.

• Financial Personnel o Office of the Chief Financial Officer: The Office of the Chief Financial Officer is responsible for developing and overseeing the budget process, financial planning, analysis and reporting, finance, treasury and accounting operations and procurement.

• Human Resources Personnel o UF Core Human Resource Office: The Office of Human Resource Services’ strategic commitment to the university community aligns with UF’s strategic goals. This commitment directly supports UF’s aspiration to be a premier university that the state, nation and world look to for as well as UF HR’s obligation to help create the conditions needed to achieve preeminence through people. UF human resources helps PHHP by providing guidance for all human resources operations, including talent acquisition, benefits, professional development, classification and compensation, labor and employee relations, administrative communication services and work life. o General Counsel: The Office of the Vice President and General Counsel provides legal advice and representation to UF, its component units and affiliated entities, and to its employees while acting within the scope and course of their employment.

• Research Personnel o Office of Research: UF Research is committed to facilitating the research and scholarship successes of faculty and students by creating effective connections between researchers and funding opportunities, marketing research capabilities to collaborators and funding agencies, and forging institutional relationships with external stakeholders. University research divisions include: . Division of Sponsored Programs (university pre-award unit) . Division of Contracts & Grants (university post-award unit) . Division of Research Program Development . Division of Research Operations and Services

3) Provide narrative and/or data that support the assertion that the school’s staff and other personnel support is sufficient or not sufficient.

The college funds four major core units to provide services to PHHP faculty, students and staff.

1. Research Administration: Provides pre- and post-award services to the college. There are 9.2 FTE assigned to the core. The core maintains a very active portfolio across numerous federal, state and private funding mechanisms. Annual awards continue to trend at just under $40 million and PI proposal submission dollars continue to grow at more than $246 million. 2. Information Technology (IT): The college has a full-service IT operation, including a service center, senior developer, multiple platform support and software maintenance, virtual servers, security and back-up. There are 7.2 FTE assigned to this core. 3. Public Health Academic Administration: The Master of Public Health, Bachelor of Public Health and Bachelor of Health Science and advisement offices are housed in the dean’s office and funded by the college. Of the total 25.0 FTE under academics, 9.0 support these programs. 4. Instructional Design (ID): The instructional design core was originally created to move appropriate classroom teaching to the blended learning model, also known as a “flipped classroom.” The college has over 165 partially/fully blended courses. The ID team also provides content/structure evaluation and assessment for alignment with student learning outcomes and objectives, integrated learning modality assistance and more. Course and media production support is also housed within this core. There are 4.0 FTE staff members within this core.

Departments fund any additional staff through their budgetary authority.

4) If applicable, assess strengths and weaknesses related to this criterion and plans for improvement in this area.

Strengths: • The college places a high priority on critical infrastructure to provide seamless services to faculty, students and staff as described above. PHHP is one of only a few at UF that have robust Research, IT and Instructional Design cores.

Weaknesses: • None identified

Plan for improvement: • Not applicable