Submitting a Proposal

Eligibility

Any student, faculty, staff member, collaborative group, or organization at UF can submit a proposal to the Student Technology Fee Grant Advisory Committee following the submission guidelines, submission dates, and requirements.

Process

1. A proposal that strictly adheres to the requirements below must be submitted to the Committee.
2. The Committee will review the submitted proposal and accept or reject it. Rejected proposals can be resubmitted in the following cycles.
3. Accepted proposals selected for possible funding by the Committee will be forwarded with a recommendation to the CIO.
4. The CIO will make a final decision on project proposals to be funded.
5. Funded proposals will be announced and posted on this website.
6. All proposals selected for funding must be completed within one fiscal year.

Requirements

1. Proposals must address “…instructional technology resources for students and faculty.” (Florida Statute 1009.23)
2. Proposals must be submitted in the required template.
3. Proposals must include an approved signature from the Dean of the College, Unit Director, or Vice President for Student Affairs who houses the student, staff, or faculty member.
4. Proposals must be reviewed and include an approval from the core UFIT unit Director listed below, whose area is most familiar with the focus of the project resulting from the proposal, by the date listed below. The core UFIT units and their respective contacts are:
   
   • Academic Technology (AT), The Office of Academic Technology (AT) provides resources, technical assistance, and equipment to assist the University of Florida faculty, staff, and students. The three general divisions of AT include support for media services, instructional technology, and teaching/learning.
     Mark McCallister, Director markm@ufl.edu
   • Applications, Development and Integrations (ADI) supports, builds and integrates university-wide cloud and on-premise applications in support of UF’s faculty, staff and students. Nicole Jeffers, Director ngarvey@ufl.edu   
   • Customer Experience & Resources Planning (CERP), informs the university of IT services, support, and systems, conducts a year-round feedback and listening program, servers as campus advocates for enterprise IT improvements, and manages enterprise-wide technology projects for UF. Alicia Turner, Director, aliciatu@ufl.edu
   • Data Platform and Analytics (DPA), provides reporting and visualizations, analytics, data engineering, master data management, application integration platform, database administration, and data science services to the university. Jim Freymann, Director, jim.freymann@ufl.edu.
   • Infrastructure & Communication Technology (ICT) manages the UF Data Center and delivers hosted server, storage, virtualization, database, email, and related system and connects the University of Florida campuses and UF to the world via high-speed data, video, Wi-Fi, telecommunications, and VoIP services.
     Saira Hasnain, Associate CIO and Senior Director, saira.hasnain@ufl.edu
   • Information Security (IS), Information Security has a mission to preserve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of restricted and critical data of the University. Rob Adams, Chief Information Security Officer, Information Security, rob@ufl.edu
   • Research Computing (RC), Research Computing, and the High-Performance Computing Center provides high-performance computing resources and support to UF faculty whose research depends on large-scale computing.
     Erik Deumens, Director deumens@ufl.edu

Important Dates

Important Dates for the 2025 Technology Funding Cycle

How to Submit a Proposal

1. The proposal in the required template in electronic format to Anne Allen. Proposals not sent in electronic format will not be considered.
2. An approval form with all required signatures sent by email or mail to:
   
   Anne Allen
   alallen@ufl.edu 
   720 SW 2nd Ave., Ste 250 N,
   Gainesville, FL  32601-1211.