Message from the President

The University of Florida extends a warm invitation for you, your families and friends to join us in celebrating the University of Florida’s Fall 2009 graduating class.

We are extremely proud of our students and faculty, and look forward to recognizing their achievements at commencement. As graduates, you join a global family of UF alumni more than 315,000 strong. Your education will serve you well throughout your lives and enable you to make positive contributions to our state, nation and the world.

To the graduates of the Class of 2009, “Congratulations!”

Dr. J. Bernard Machen

President

Dr. Machen assumed the presidency in January 2004. He is the university’s 11th president. Previously, Dr. Machen served as president of the University of Utah and provost of the University of Michigan.