History of UF Quest

2024-2025

January 2025: Interim Director of UF Quest Named
March 2025: UF Quest Day
- Opening Remarks by & Keynote Address
- Recordings of Event: Opening Remarks and Keynote, Lightning Talks, Student Panel, Faculty Panel,
- Promotional Materials

March 2025: Coalition for Transformational Education Conference
April 2025: AA&CU Conference

PechaKucha
Faculty Panel on assessing UF Quest

2023-2024

Summer/Fall 2023: UF Gulf Scholars Program is funded by National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. Additional funding from UF President's Strategic Initiative. Experiential learning requirement is incorporated into this program.
Fall 2023: Collaboration between AI2, Quest and Student Life leads to NSF grant proposal for developing experiential learning opportunities related to AI at UF.
Fall 2023: UF joins the Coalition for Transformational Education, an invite-only group of top universities focused on student success, experiential learning and transformational educational practice.
November 15, 2023: First UF Quest Day
- Opening Remarks by Dr. Angela Lindner & Keynote Address by Dr. Richard K. Miller (PowerPoint Slides)
- Recordings of Event: Opening Remarks and Keynote, Lightning Talks, Student Panel, Faculty Panel,
- Promotional Materials
February 2024: Faculty Lighting Talks Presentation
March 2024: Coalition of Transformational Education Conference
- Dr. Angela Lindner's UF Quest Presentation
March 2024: Response to New State General Education Regulations
- Regulation 1007.25
- List of Quest courses approved for Gen Ed

2022-2023

July 2022: Heavener School of Business pilots the UF Quest 3 requirement.
August 2022: UF Quest 2 Assessment Plan is implemented.
Spring 2023: State University System of Florida Board of Governors Task Force on Academic and Workforce Alignment begins focus on increasing experiential learning in SUS.
Spring 2023: Quest, in partnership with UF Center for Teaching Excellence, starts a Faculty Learning Community focused on experiential learning. Faculty demand far exceeds available space for participants.
June 22, 2023: Report on the History and Implementation of UF Quest.

2021-2022

July 1, 2021: The UF Quest 2 requirement goes into effect.
August 2021: The UF Quest 1 Assessment Plan is implented and the UF Quest 2 Assement Plan is piloted.

2020-2021

May 2020: New students are designated a semester to complete the UF Quest 1 requirement. Before attending Preview, they are sent a survey so they can choose which Quest 1 course they would like to take. A seat is reserved for students designated the Summer B or Fall 2020 semester based on the preferences that they indicate in the survey. Students designated the Spring 2021 semester will be able to choose their Quest 1 course when advance registration begins for the spring.
July 1, 2020: The UF Quest 1 requirement goes into effect for all first-time-in-college students.
August 24, 2020: Faculty participating in the Fall 2020 Pilot Assessment meet to review guidelines and rubrics for the assessment.

2019-2020

August 16, 2019: Dr. Andrew Wolpert, Associate Professor of Classics, becomes the inaugural Director of UF Quest.
Fall 2019: Trial 2 of Quest 1.
September 25, 2019: The UF Quest Assessment Task Force is convened. It spends the 2019-2020 academic year developming an assesment plan for the program.
October 17, 2019: UF Senate passes a resolution in support of UF Quest
November 2019: A call for proposals is realsed for new Quest 1 and Quest 2 courses for Spring 2021.
Spring 2020: Trial 3 of Quest 1 and Trial 1 of Quest 2.

2018-2019

Fall 2018: Graphic Design students create UF Quest logo.
September 2018: A call for proposals is released for Quest 1 courses for Fall 2019 (Quest 1 / Trial 2).
December 2018: A call for proposals is released for Quest 2 courses for Spring 2019 (Quest 2 / Trial 1).
Spring 2019: 12 courses are piloted in Trial 1 of Quest 1. IUF 1000 becomes IDS 1161.
January 2019: A call for proposals is released for Quest 1 courses for Fall 2020 (Quest 1 / Trial 3).
May 2, 2019: Presentation to UF Faculty Senate on UF Quest.
June 2019: Launch of new UF Quest Website.

2017-2018

February 16, 2018: Quest Curriculum Committee (QCC) is convened, chaired by Dr. Trysh Travis (UF Quest Faculty Liaison) and Dr. Angela Lindner (Associate Provost for Undergraduate Affairs).
- UF Quest Curriculum Committee
- Spring 2018 UF Quest Model
April 2018: A call for proposals is released for Quest 1 courses for Spring 2019 (Quest 1 / Trial 1).
Pre-eminent universities may no longer require unique courses (2018 Florida Statute 1001.7065).

2016-2017

Fall 2016: UF Quest Task Forces and CLAS Working Groups convene.
Spring 2017: UF Quest Task Forces and CLAS Work Groups combine.
March 1, 2017: Student Town Hall Meeting on UF Quest (Presentation and Video)
March 23, 2017: UF Quest Presentation 1 (Background and Process) to the Faculty Senate
April 2017: Release of the Final Report of the UF Quest Combined Task Force
April 3, 2017: UF Quest Faculty Retreat (Presentation, Questions )
April 11, 2017: Deans' Breakfast (Presentation, Handout)
April 20, 2017: UF Quest Presentation 2 (New Proposed Model) to the Faculty Senate
May 11, 2017: UF Quest Presentation 3 (Request for Feedback and Steps Forward) to the Faculty Senate
June 2017: Freedom from Religion sends UF's General Counsel a complaint about the UF Quest Program. (Complaint, UF's Response)

2015-2016

Summer B 2015: HUM 2305 becomes IUF 1000.
Spring 2016: Four UF Quest Task Forces are formed.
February 2016: Angela Lindner (Associate Provost of Undergraduate Affairs) proposes a new framework for the UF Core Program. It is to be sequential, with an expanded selection of courses in the social and natural sciences, and will include experiential learning and an optional capstone course.
Pre-eminence Legislation reduces the number of credits to 6 of unique courses that FTIC students may be required to complete at pre-eminent universities (2016 Florida Statute 1001.7065).

2014-2015

Spring 2015: “Climate Change” and “People and Data” are first piloted.

2013-2014

November 26, 2013: Call for Grand Challenge Courses in the Natural and Social Sciences is released.
Spring 2014: “The Challenge of Climate Change” and “An Informed Life: People and Data” are selected to be Grand Challenges core courses in the natural and social sciences for students to take in in addition to HUM 2305.

2012-2013

HUM 2305 becomes a required course for all FTIC students.
Pre-eminence legislation allows pre-eminent universities to offer up to 12 credits of unique courses for FTIC students (2013 Florida Statute 1001.7065).

2011-2012

September 19, 2011: The UF General Education Task Forces – Humanities recommends mandating the signature course, HUM 2305 (“What is the Good Life?”), as a requirement for all FTIC students beginning with the 2012 matriculating class.
February 16, 2012: UF Senate approves the Good Life Course.

2010-2011

Fall 2010: HUM 2305 (“What is the Good Life?”) is piloted.

2009-2010

January 2010: The UF Task Force on Undergraduate Education calls for the creation of signature experiences for FTIC students that are themed approach; increased opportunities for experiential learning, service learning and civic engagement; and the development of e-portfolio initiatives.

2022-2023

Summer/Fall 2023: UF Gulf Scholars Program is funded by National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. Additional funding from UF President's Strategic Initiative. Experiential learning requirement is incorporated into this program.
Fall 2023: Collaboration between AI2, Quest and Student Life leads to NSF grant proposal for developing experiential learning opportunities related to AI at UF.
Fall 2023: UF joins the Coalition for Transformational Education, an invite-only group of top universities focused on student success, experiential learning and transformational educational practice.
November 15, 2023: First UF Quest Day
- Opening Remarks by Dr. Angela Lindner & Keynote Address by Dr. Richard K. Miller (PowerPoint Slides)
- Recordings of Event: Opening Remarks and Keynote, Lightning Talks, Student Panel, Faculty Panel,
- Promotional Materials
February 2024: Faculty Lighting Talks Presentation
March 2024: Coalition of Transformational Education Conference
- Dr. Angela Lindner's UF Quest Presentation
March 2024: Response to New State General Education Regulations

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