A New ‘Mental Giant’
Date: May 7th, 2013
Good afternoon, everyone! Today is a great day for the University of Florida as we celebrate the grand opening of the UF Data Center. As Elias mentioned, we get to [...]
Speeches 2013 Category 
On the Wings of Innovation
Date: Apr 25th, 2013
As UF’s women leaders, I know you are aware that a majority of our undergraduates are women. I’m proud of our achievement in preparing these women for graduate school, the workplace, and life. However, we have a significant challenge, and that is to increase the number of women choosing and completing scientific and engineering degrees.
An Opportunity for Success
Date: Apr 24th, 2013
As a result of the Morrill Act, millions of Americans have had the opportunity to get a college education. They’ve gone on to careers as engineers, lawyers, teachers, doctors and more – achieving personal success and stability, growing America’s middle class, and helping to build our country. Today, no students carry this legacy forward as powerfully as you, our Florida Opportunity Scholars.
Lavender Graduation Ceremony
Date: Apr 19th, 2013
I want the best for all of our graduates. The shift in public consciousness that we are seeing today gives me great hope that when you leave this campus this spring, you will enter an America more accepting and welcoming to you than at any moment in our history.
Bricks and Mortar in a Digital Age
Date: Apr 11th, 2013
Today’s symposium culminates our year-long celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Morrill Act that created our nation’s land-grant universities. It captures how the Morrill Act expanded university education from the elite to the public and how it broadened education to embrace liberal arts, agriculture and science and engineering.
Write Your Own Story
Date: Apr 9th, 2013
I submit to you, the transition you make when you go to college is that, for the first time, you take control of your path. You get to pick your own major, choose your own career and eventually, create your own home. At a deeper level, you get to decide your political beliefs, determine your faith and learn through trial and error how to live your life. For the first time, in other words, you get to write your own stories.
All That and More: The True Purposes of College
Date: Jan 24th, 2013
Is job placement all that college is for? What is the purpose of college? Does college have a singular purpose or are there multiple purposes?
Welcome to the Inaugural Class of UF’s Innovation Academy
Date: Jan 4th, 2013
Women and men of the very first class of the Innovation Academy, welcome to the University of Florida. We have been waiting for you! And welcome, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, family and friends. We know your love for these students helped them reach this first day of college, and we are glad you are here to enjoy this moment with them.