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Research funding and capital campaigns also grew under President Machen’s
leadership. Annual research funding grew from $470 million to $641 million
in 2013; a recent capital campaign raised $1.7 billion. In 2010, Machen led UF
in joining Gainesville Community members to develop the Innovation Square
initiative including the Innovation Hub technology incubator approximately
two blocks from UF on the site of the former Alachua General Hospital. During
this time period, the UF Innovation Academy, a spring/summer academic year
program, and UF Online, a program to offer undergraduate degree programs
totally online were developed. Student Affairs staff were tapped to design
support services for both programs. Machen continued UF’s efforts to reach
Top Ten status including a UF Preeminence Plan that received approval and
funding in 2013. Machen retired from UF in 2014. Dr. W. Kent Fuchs became
UF’s president in January 2015.
During her tenure, Telles-Irvin reorganized Student Affairs. Additional
admin istrative positions were added to the Office of the Vice President. In 2008,
the Center for Leadership and Service, Multicultural and Diversity Affairs, Off
Campus Life, and Student Legal Services were moved from the Dean of Students
Office to report directly to the Office of the Vice President. Changes were
implemented in the Reitz Union Office of Student Activities with the Office of
Fraternity and Sorority Affairs and the advising of Student Government moved
from the Dean of Students Office to Student Activities. Leadership programs
and community service moved from the Office of Student Activities to the Dean
of Students Office. External departments were involved in DSA organizational
change as well. Student Mental Health, a unit in the Student Health Care Center
(SHCC) Division of Health Affairs, was consolidated with the Counseling Center
to become the Counseling and Wellness Center. At the same time, GatorWell
Health Promotions was moved from the SHCC to Student Affairs. Spring 2010,
the Counseling and Wellness Center and GatorWell Health Promotions moved
to a newly constructed facility on Radio Road. In 2011, Student Financial Affairs
moved to Academic Affairs, joining the Office of the University Registrar and
the Office of University Admission in the newly-formed Division of Enrollment
Management. Telles-Irvin left UF in 2011. Dave Kratzer, Associate Vice President
for Student Affairs, served as Interim Vice President then in 2012 was hired as
Vice President. In 2011, additional internal re-organization occurred affecting
the reporting structures of several units, and the Department of Student

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