Bookstore
CENTERS
Campus Alcohol & Drug Information Center
Career Center
Students are encouraged to use the Career Center early in their stay at UWF to assist in making career decisions. To interview with employer representatives during their senior year, students must complete an office registration. It is especially important that all teacher candidates register and develop the credentials required by education employers.
Cashier
Check Cashing
Child Care
Computer Resources
While new student computer laboratories are being installed, older student labs are being upgraded and expanded to provide students with full Internet access, e-mail addresses, and file server transparency between the labs. All the IBM-compatible labs are linked through netware directory services, allowing students to access their files and applications from any lab on campus. Macintosh-based labs have similar access to campus-wide servers that provide applications to users of any Macintosh on campus.
All students have access to Internet mail and all Internet facilities (e.g., WWW, FTP, Telnet, etc.). Dial-in access is provided for general student use and a special battery of modems has been established along with a help desk for courses that are taught through the Internet.
For instruction and research, the University also has access to high-speed, high capacity computers located in Gainesville, Tallahassee, and Miami.
Information Technical Services (ITS) provides systems analysis, professional training, programming consultation, telecommunications, networking, and computer operation support to the entire campus.
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE CENTER
FORT WALTON BEACH CAMPUS
Cooperative Education
Counseling - Personal And Vocational
Disabled Student Services
To assist the physically disabled, academic and administrative areas throughout the University are provided with ramps and/or elevators. Elevators are marked with raised letters for the convenience of persons with visual impairments.
Persons with a disability requiring reasonable accommodation should contact the Equal Opportunity and Diversity Office in Building 18, Room 172, at least five working days in advance to make appropriate arrangements. Persons with hearing or speech impairments should use the Florida Dual Party Relay System at 1-800-955-8770 (voice) or 850-474-2205 (TDD).
Escort Service
Food Services
Food is available in all areas on a cash basis and with a Nautilus Card. A variety of special savings on meal costs are available to resident and nonresident students. Detailed information about campus dining may be obtained from the Office of Food Services.
Graduate Studies
Health Services
The Health Center staff includes an R.N./Health Education Coordinator specializing in information programming for University students.
Students may purchase the school health and accident insurance policy to provide extended coverage for themselves and dependents. All international students are required to purchase insurance coverage.
Housing
The two-student rooms provide comfortable semiprivate accommodations. Each room has access to local phone service, vending machines, laundry facilities, and cable TV. Community cooking facilities are available in the north campus buildings.
Student apartments have one bedroom and accommodate two students. Family apartments have one bedroom and accommodate two adults and no more than one child.
A limited number of single rooms are available for students seeking maximum privacy.
The University of West Florida Village consists of two and four bedroom apartments with each bedroom leased individually.
Since space is limited and priority of assignment is based upon the date of the housing application, prospective students are urged to make application for housing as early as possible.
The housing reservation procedure is separate from the admission process. For further information and a housing contract, please contact the Office of Housing.
OFF-CAMPUS HOUSING
Instructional Media Center
Library
Through technology, including the Internet, compact disks, computer-based reference database searching, and document delivery, students also have access to full-text and other materials nationwide.
FORT WALTON BEACH CAMPUS
Ombudspersons
Post Office
Public Safety and Security
The Division of University Police is comprised of sworn police officers, communications personnel, security officers, and escort personnel who are available 24 hours a day.
The Division of Environmental Health & Safety is entrusted with maintaining a safe and healthy environment for those who work, live, study, or visit the University.
Automobiles and other vehicles used on campus by faculty, staff, and students must be registered with the University police during the first day the vehicle is on campus. Visitors and guests may obtain a visitor's pass at the Information Center (Building 81) or the Department of Public Safety (Building 19). A copy of the parking regulations may be obtained at the Department of Public Safety or the Information Center.
The possession and/or use of firearms is prohibited on campus. Upon request, the Department of Public Safety will store legal firearms and ammunition for resident students.
Service Learning
Skill Improvement Centers
The Writing Skills Laboratory offers exercises, diagnostic and skills tests, and instruction in grammar and usage, and instruction in mechanics and sentence construction. The lab also offers other services such as the essay bank, paper reading, informational and instructional handouts, and the Grammar Hotline. Services are available to students approximately 40 hours a week, including some evening hours. Interactive paper reading sessions requiring students to collaborate with a paper reader on papers that fulfill course requirements are available on a one-hour appointment basis only. For more information contact the English department.
Student Affairs Office
Student Success Programs
The Student Success Learning Center provides free tutorial assistance for students enrolled at the University. Individual and group tutoring is available. Special tutorial assistance is provided for students preparing for the CLAST, ACT, SAT, GRE, GMAT, and LSAT. In addition to computerized tutorial assistance, there are a variety of academic and study skills software programs available.
Multicultural Support Services are designed to increase the retention and graduation rates of multicultural students. Multicultural retention activities include academic support services, tutorial assistance, counseling, cultural events, and other activities.
Student Success Mentoring links participating students with faculty, staff, administrators, and student mentors. Community professionals also serve as mentors for University students. University mentors work as peer advisors to incoming lower-division students during orientation and throughout the fall semester. They help new students get acquainted with the University, provide a support base that eases adjustment, augment information provided by advisors, and refer students to appropriate University services.
University Student Support Services Program is a federally funded program that provides academic support services for University students. Support services include tutoring; developmental advising; peer counseling and advising; career planning; cultural and social activities; motivational workshops; and mentoring with faculty, staff, and community professionals. This program serves minority and other low-income, first generation students (their parents have not completed a bachelor's degree).
The College Reach Out Program is funded by the State Department of Education and provides a pre-collegiate program to serve minority and other disadvantaged students in grades 6-12. Services and activities are designed to improve the educational motivation and preparation of participating students. Services and activities take place during the academic year and during the summer. Students in grades 8-12 have the opportunity to live on campus during the summer. Graduating high school seniors participate in a summer program, which offers sponsored institute and college credit courses.
EXCEL is a program for academically promising students, supporting the University's commitment to the success of students. This is an alternate admissions program that provides summer enhancement courses, developmental advising, tutoring, and other support services designed to prepare and enhance the academic performance of participating students.
Testing
PENSACOLA CAMPUS
The Bookstore offers textbooks, school supplies, general books, magazines, class rings, and snack foods to its customers. The Bookstore also has an extensive line of emblematic clothing and gift items. Educationally priced software is available for purchase with current University identification. Services include book buy-back, book special orders, and UPS shipping. The Bookstore accepts MasterCard, Visa, and Nautilus cards.
Course books at the Fort Walton Beach Campus and Eglin Air Force Base Center are sold at the bookstores operated at the centers by the Okaloosa-Walton Community College Bookstore.
The Campus Alcohol and Drug Information Center (CADIC) is the focal point on campus for information, education, reference, and referral concerning alcohol and other drug use, misuse, or abuse; and HIV/AIDS as it relates to substance abuse. The CADIC offers varied educational presentations to student groups, organizations, residence halls and classes; a comprehensive reference library of materials related to alcohol and other drug use and abuse.
The University Career Center provides career service and publishes the Recruiting Schedule for students and alumni seeking interviews for employment in education, business, government, and industry. The office helps students prepare resum‚s, offers career advice, and has information concerning requirements for governmental employment. A library of employer and occupational information is available.
The Cashier's Office, located in Building 20 East, receives all payments for student fees, housing, library fines, parking fines, student loan payments, child care fees, and other miscellaneous payments. Cashiers are also located at the Fort Walton Beach Campus.
The Bank of Pensacola has a branch bank in the Commons. In addition to many commercial banking services, the bank offers check cashing to faculty, staff, and students. The University Bookstore will cash personal checks for amounts to $25 above the cost of any purchase of $2 or more.
Child care is available through the Educational Research Center for Child Development on a fee basis for children of students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Regular enrollment is open to children who are six months old through kindergarten age. Age range is extended through ten years during the summer semester. While students are given priority in placement, prospective students are urged to make application for child care as early as possible. When classes are in session, the center is open 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday. The center is staffed by professionals in the field of education and provides a broad range of learning experiences for each child and opportunities for research, internships, and supervised teaching experiences for University students.
PENSACOLA CAMPUS
The University has over 1,000 computers at its main campus in Pensacola, connected as a distributed system via a fiber-optic network. This network is connected to the Internet through a T-1 line. Within the buildings, Ethernet networks link the computers into local area networks. Mail, news, communications, WWW, file, and calendar servers are available to provide services to students, faculty, and staff; including electronic mail accounts and full access to the Internet.
The University has extended its administrative, instructional, and research computing facilities to the Eglin Air Force Base Center. Communication links provide batch and interactive processing for computer resources located at either the main campus in Pensacola or one of the other State supported universities within the State University System of Florida.
The University has extended its communication links to its campus in Fort Walton Beach. Faculty and students have the same Internet access as on the Pensacola Campus.
Co-op students gain firsthand experience in their intended career fields by incorporating periods of paid employment into their degree programs. They may either alternate terms of theoretical study with terms of professional practice or parallel study and work assignments in the junior, senior, and graduate school years. This course of action provides students with tools for important career decision-making and a head start in their chosen professions.
The Counseling Center provides a comprehensive range of professional services to students and spouses who have personal, vocational, marital, social, or educational problems. The center is staffed by clinical and counseling psychologists and offers individual counseling, group workshops, skill-building seminars, and special outreach services. All services are free of charge. Information regarding all counseling contacts is confidential. The center is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday-Friday.
This program provides students with needed support services. Services include auxiliary aids, note takers, tutors, and interpreters. Contact the Office of Disabled Student Services for information or assistance.
The Campus Escort Service is available to all University students, personnel, and visitors upon request. The service is provided between car and building or building to building, day and night, year round. Qualified, supervised student personnel provide the escort service, Monday through Friday, while the University is in session, from 8 a.m. to 12 midnight. During all other times, the University Policy will provide escort service on an "as available" basis.
Food services are provided in the University Commons and the College of Education (COE). These services are available at the Commons Food Court, the Rathskeller, and the COE Express. Catering services for special functions are also available.
The Graduate Studies Office is responsible for coordinating with the deans and departmental chairs in the development, implementation, and evaluation of graduate programs. The Office coordinates university level review of master's theses and administers the Small Grants Program for graduate student thesis projects. The Office coordinates graduate scholarships, fellowships, and assistantships including the Delores Auzenne Minority Fellowship Program and the Special Summer Program for Minority Graduate Students.
The Student Health Service provides medical care and health information for currently enrolled students and dependents. The University physician holds a clinic each class day. Students requiring medical attention at other times may be seen by the nurse on duty or referred to their family physician or to the emergency room of one of the area hospitals. Services are available on a walk-in or appointment basis. A minimal fee is charged for dependents' visits. Minimal charges are assessed for laboratory procedures for students and dependents.
ON-CAMPUS STUDENT HOUSING
Student housing consists of 23 small residence halls arranged in clusters among the academic buildings and the University Village. Special facilities for the disabled are provided.
Information concerning off-campus housing is available from the Office of Housing. This service is offered as a referral agency only.
Students have access to film and videocassette viewing carrels from which they may view any of the IMC film or videocassette holdings as well as materials placed on reserve by faculty. Equipment to support classroom presentations, including notebook computers and video projection equipment are available. Production services such as video-taping, editing, and photographic slide and print making in support of instructional activities are available to students. Students may use overhead transparency makers and have non-copyrighted videocassettes duplicated on their own. Materials and blank tapes must be provided by the student and the tape duplication involves a nominal fee.
PENSACOLA CAMPUS
The John C. Pace Library houses more than 550,000 volumes, over one million microform pieces, and 3,300 current serials subscriptions. The library is also a regional depository for publications of the U.S. Government and the State of Florida. The special collections unit contains almost 650,000 items such as documents, family records, and maps relating to Pensacola and to the historic West Florida region. Professional librarians are available to assist students in the effective use of these materials and the computerized library system.
The Fort Walton Beach Campus library provides access to information and materials which support courses taught at the campus. The permanent collection has almost 15,000 volumes and 150 current subscriptions. The library staff offers many services to the students and faculty. Through intralibrary loans, students at Fort Walton Beach also have access to all materials at the Pace Library.
Students seeking guidance or assistance with nonacademic concerns should contact the Office of the Associate Vice President for Student Affairs. Students seeking guidance or assistance with academic concerns should contact the office of the Associate Vice Provost for Enrollment Services. These individuals act as impartial and confidential agents and can evaluate students' issues and help them seek solutions to a variety of concerns.
The University operates a full-service contract post office housed in the Commons. All rules and regulations governing the operation of a Federal Post Office apply to the campus post office.
The Department of Public Safety is comprised of two divisions, University Police and Environmental Health & Safety. The mission of both units is to ensure the safety of the University faculty, staff, students, and guests. Additionally, the department maintains the security of University facilities.
Service Learning focuses on placing students in the community in "real world" situations that directly apply to coursework being studied. While aiding the community, students learn the practical application of the concepts taught in the classroom, adding interest, increasing learning, and providing networking. Service Learning opportunities are coordinated through the Center for Learning Through Organized Volunteer Efforts (CLOVE) for qualified students with the approval of a faculty sponsor. Students can register for the lower and/or upper division courses, Service Learning Field Studies I and II in any department and earn 1, 2, or 3 semester hours credit. For additional information, contact the CLOVE Office.
The Mathematics and Statistics Improvement Laboratory provides individual tutorial instruction for students who need help in any mathematics or statistics course. It is staffed by mathematics or statistics undergraduate and graduate majors. For further information contact the math department.
The Student Affairs Office offers a wide range of student services and programs and provides information to students, faculty, and staff concerning student life. Contact this office for questions relating to testing, disabled student services, international student advising, student conduct, insurance, immunization, orientation, or University policies and procedures.
The Office of Student Success Programs is responsible for the administration of programs designed to increase the enrollment, retention, and graduation rates of students. The office provides academic support services for students enrolled at the University. Pre-collegiate programs are provided for middle and high school students.
The Testing Office offers information on numerous testing programs, and can provide specific information about the following tests.
University Commons
The University Commons is UWF's student center and houses the cafeteria, game room, TV lounge, bookstore, post office, bank, meeting rooms, and the following offices: Student Government Association, Volunteer Center, Campus Activity Board, Student Organizations, Food Service, and African American Student Association.
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