University of Florida's Core Values
Our Shared Values
In 2015, the University of Florida adopted “The Decade Ahead” strategic plan comprising seven university-wide goals and objectives and one overarching aspiration: That the University of Florida will be a premier university that the state, nation and world will look to for leadership.
In 2020, the university augmented the plan with the “UF Core Values” underpinning its goals and overarching aspiration with six central values. The values were shaped by input from all of UF’s key stakeholders to ensure they reflect the diverse UF community.
Learn More About Our Core Values
Browse through the menu below to learn more about each core value.
Actions speak louder than words.
Find examples of how UF's faculty, staff and students embody UF's Core Values and share how the values are represented in your area or organization.
Civil Discourse in an Uncivil Age. During this event, PBS host Alexander Heffner discussed the effects of divisiveness on discourse, campaigns, and governance as well as the influence of new media, dis/misinformation, and filter bubbles that polarize American society.
Work is underway after the University of Florida received a recent grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to expand its research on livestock systems in Africa.
Putting UF Core Values into practice at the College of Public Health and Health Professions
Improving the cultivars of disease-prone crops is one example of how UF/IFAS TREC facilitates community with and among local growers.
What started as a community in IFAS to learn how to leverage Microsoft Teams, has turned into a UF wide community to help all Faculty and Staff leverage the MS 365 platform.
Additional Resources
Download the UF Core Values model and iconography, templates, a discussion guide and more here.
For any questions about these resources, please contact hrcommunications@hr.ufl.edu.
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