March 2025: Coalition for Transformational Education Conference, Miami, FL, UF faculty and students give several presentations on UF Quest’s efforts on assessment
April 2025: AA&CU Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico
UF Assessment Conference: Faculty Panel on assessing UF Quest
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
June 2017: Freedom from Religion sends UF's General Counsel a complaint about the UF Quest Program. (Complaint, UF's Response)
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).
Spring 2015: “Climate Change” and “People and Data” are first piloted.
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.
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).
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.
Fall 2010: HUM 2305 (“What is the Good Life?”) is piloted.
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.