ANNOUNCEMENTS

This year, the USF Chapter of the United Faculty of Florida will be celebrating the Holiday Season with two events.

• Our Annual Holiday Social will be tomorrow Tuesday, November 28, from 11 am to 2 pm, in the Marshall Center's Sabal Room (MSC 3700, on the third floor, just to the right and around the corner from Top of the Palms); all UFF USF employees, UFF members and non-members alike, are invited to attend. See the flyer for details.
• The Annual Toy Drive conducted by the West Central Florida Federation of Labor will collect new, unwrapped toys for children ages 0 - 18. Toys can be brought to a Chapter Meeting or the Holiday Social (see above), to the Holiday Social, or delivered to the receptionist at the USF Tampa Department of Mathematics & Statistics (CMC342). The Children's Home Society of Florida has provided us with a list of gift ideas.

Promotion and Tenure Workshop

If you are an instructor planning to apply for a promotion to the next higher level...

If you are an associate professor planning to apply for promotion to full...

If you are an assistant professor planning to apply for tenure...

...come to the Promotion and Tenure Workshop on December 1, 10 am to 12 pm, on USF Tampa in EDU 161.

If you are making long-range plans for applying several years down the road, and you want pointers on how to build up your vita...

If you plan to apply next fall and you want to know how to put together a promotion or tenure packet...

If you are planning to submit a packet in January...

...come to the Promotion and Tenure Workshop on December 1, 10 am to 12 pm, on USF Tampa in EDU 161.

The USF Chapter of the United Faculty of Florida is holding a promotion and tenure workshop this coming Friday.

• The workshop is for UFF members, but any employee in the Bargaining Unit can join UFF at the door. (Here is a link to the membership form.
• Every department or comparable unit is required to have written promotion or tenure criteria: bring a copy of your department or unit's criteria so you can discuss it at the workshop.

LOGISTICS

Next Chapter Meeting Friday, December 1, at noon, on USF Tampa, in EDU 161. All UFF members are invited to attend. Non-members are also invited to come and check us out. Come and join the movement.

Membership: Everyone in the UFF USF System Bargaining unit is eligible for UFF membership: to join, simply fill out and send in the membership form.

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