CENTERS
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.

Campus Alcohol & Drug Information Center
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.

Career Center
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.

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
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.

Check Cashing
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
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 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.

Computer Resources
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.

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
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.

FORT WALTON BEACH CAMPUS
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.

Cooperative Education
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.

Counseling - Personal And Vocational
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.

Disabled Student Services
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.

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.

Escort Service
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
Food services are provided in the University Commons and the College of Education (COE). These services are available at the Commons Food Court, Argos' Grill and Gameroom, and the COE Express. Catering services for special functions are also available.

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
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 Graduate Student Scholarly and Creative Activity Grant 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.

Health Services
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.

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
RESIDENCE HALLS
The University offers students 23 small residence halls arranged in clusters among the academic buildings. Accommodations include traditional residence hall rooms, student apartments, and family apartments. Special facilities for the disabled are provided. All fees are included in the rental fees.

The traditional residence hall rooms provide comfortable, semiprivate living. Each room has access to free local phone and cable TV service, a microfridge unit (a combined refrigerator, freezer, and microwave), and semiprivate bath facilities. Each building provides laundry facilities and community space.

The student and family apartment buildings offer one bedroom accommodations. The student apartments are designed for two residents and the family apartments are designed for a single parent and child or a married couple with no more than one child (under the age of one).

A limited number of single rooms are available for students seeking maximum privacy. Students interested in this option or the student/family apartment option should request inclusion on the appropriate waiting list indicated on the Housing contract.

UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA VILLAGE
The Village apartment complex consists of two- and four-bedroom apartments. The apartments are designed to accommodate two and four students respectively; each individual leasing a bedroom. Amenities include a washer/dryer unit (Phase I apartments only) or laundry room (Phase II apartments), a private balcony, cable TV service, a complex swimming pool, and community building. Students residing in the Village apartments are responsible for rent and utilities payments.

APPLICATION PROCESS
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 application process is separate from the University's admission process. For information regarding the Residence Halls, contact the Office of Housing at (850) 474-2463. For information regarding the UWF Village, contact the Village Office at (850) 473-0065.

Instructional Media Center
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.

FORT WALTON BEACH CAMPUS
The Fort Walton Beach Campus Library provides access to information resources which support courses taught on that campus. The collection has over 15,000 volumes and 150 current serials subscriptions. Most items held at the Pensacola campus library can be retrieved for use at Fort Walton Beach as well.

Ombudspersons
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.

Post Office
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.

Public Safety and Security
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.

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
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.

Skill Improvement Centers
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 Writing Skills Laboratory offers exercises, diagnostic and skills tests, instruction in grammar and usage, and instruction in mechanics and sentence construction. The lab also offers other services such as grammar mini-lessons, 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 and weekends. 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 Writing Lab.

Student Affairs Office
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.

Student Success Programs
The Office of Student Success Programs is responsible for the administration of programs designed to increase recruitment, retention, and graduation rates of students. Student Success Programs provide academic support services for students enrolled at the University.

Student Success Learning Center is available to all UWF students to assist in their academic development. The objectives of the Learning Center are to:

• help students identify their academic strengths and weaknesses;
• help students develop effective study skills, critical thinking, and other learning skills;
• help students become self-directed, independent learners; and
• develop an individualized plan for each student.

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 Program provides two types of mentors--professional and student. Professional mentors include faculty, staff, administration, alumni, and community professionals. Student mentors include currently enrolled juniors and seniors who attend the University. A professional mentoring relationship enhances a student's confidence and maturity to help them become successful both in and out of the university system. A student mentoring relationship helps lower division students with any difficulties they might have adjusting to college life and provides a support base as students become acclimated to the University.

University Student Support Services Program is a federally funded TRIO program that provides academic support services for University students. The support services include tutoring, developmental advising; career planning, cultural and social activities, and motivational workshops. The program serves minority and other low income, first generation students (students whose parents or guardians have not completed a bachelor's degree).

College Reach-Out Program is funded by the Florida Department of Education to provide a precollegiate program that serves low income, first generation students of parents who have not completed a four-year college degree. Services and activities are designed to improve the educational motivation and preparation of participating students. Services and activities take place during the academic year. The summer programs offer free college credit courses for graduating high school seniors. In addition, students in grades 8-12 have the opportunity to participate in an on-campus summer bridge program.

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
The Testing Office offers information on numerous testing programs, and can provide specific information about the following tests.

• American College Testing Program (ACT)
• College-Level Academic Skills Test (CLAST)
• College-Level Examination Program (CLEP)
• Florida Teacher Certification Examination (FTCE)
• Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT)
• Graduate Record Exam (GRE)
• Law School Admission Test (LSAT)
• Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)
• Michigan Language Tests
• Professional Assessments for Beginning Teachers (PRAXIS/NTE)
• Scholastic Assessment Tests (SAT I and SAT II)
• Test of English as a Foreign language (TOEFL)

University Commons
The University Commons is the student union for the University of West Florida. The Commons and Student Activities professional and student staffs are involved in the daily administration of the facility, as well as providing the comprehensive activity programming traditionally hosted by the college union.

The University Commons and Student Activities Office is responsible for student programs and activities and University Commons Operations and Services. Student Programs and Activities include the Campus Activity Board (CAB), the Gamesters series, Homecoming, Web Spinners, student organizations, Greek Affairs, Leadership Services, and diversity programs. University Commons Operations and Services include the service desk, event scheduling and services, conferences services, and facilities services.

Students are eligible for free admission to most CAB programs such as comedians, movies, performing arts, and special events. Students also have the opportunity to be a part of the planning, promotion, and implementation of all CAB programs.

As the center of student life on campus, the University Commons is a great place to visit. Students can eat in the Food Court or in Argos' Grill and Gameroom (professionally operated by Sohexdo Marriott Services); buy books and magazines in the University Bookstore; mail a letter from the campus Post Office; do some banking at the Bank of Pensacola branch office or ATM; go to a meeting in one of our various meeting and conference rooms; be entertained by programming provided by the CAB; get information or assistance from Student Government, the CLOVE Office (volunteer center), or the African-American Student Association; or just hang out and study in the Great Hall, Food Court, or Argos' Grill and Gameroom.

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