Graceville Campus Facilities

Library

The Ida J. McMillan Library, located in Carlton Hall, is the resource center which provides educational materials and services for faculty and students. The Director of Library Services and the library staff are available to offer assistance to students in locating materials and providing other library services. 

Library Hours

Fall and Spring Schedule

Monday                                   8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Tuesday                                  8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday                             8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Thursday                                 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Friday                                      12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (1st and 3rd Fridays)

Saturday and Sunday            Closed

*Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays during the chapel hour.

Rules for the Use of the Library

Students are encouraged to utilize the library and its resources. If students have overdue books or fines, they may not check out other materials. Overdue and fine notices will be emailed to your student account. Please be courteous of others who may be studying in the library.

Administrative Offices

The main campus of the university occupies a beautiful, approximately 200-acre campus in Graceville, a town located in the Florida panhandle. All campus buildings are grouped together and are within a five-minute walk of each other. Students with disabilities have easy access to campus facilities.

Graceville Hall is home to the Registrar’s Office, Baptist Collegiate Ministry (BCM) Office, as well as some faculty offices. General Education faculty are in the Kinchen Center, Solomon Hall, and Graceville Hall. The Teacher Education faculty are in the Kinchen Center. The Library and the Music and Worship Division faculty are in Carlton Hall; and the Theology faculty are located in Graceville Hall and R. C. Mills Center. The Campus Safety Office is in the McRae Morrow Building, and the IT Lab is in the Library. Athletics is housed in the Wellness Center and McRae Morrow.

Coffee Shop and Bistro

The King’s Cup Coffee Shop & Bistro is located in the Student Center.

Campus Housing

Single students, under 21 years of age, not commuting from home where they reside with their parent(s) or legal guardian, must live in an on-campus residence hall for the first four semesters (not counting summers) of attendance at BUF.

Campus housing for students includes: Lakeview apartments for married couples and families and residence halls for single students are Lakeside Hall, Smith Hall, Brackin-Chandler Hall, Napier Hall, the POD, Courtyard Plaza (Conrad, Courtyard, and Ogletree dorms) and Ezell Apartments.

Chapel

The Robert G. Lee Chapel, built in 1958 and named for the former pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, is the worship center of the university where special programs and spiritual emphases are held.

Classrooms

The Ed Solomon Hall, McRae-Morrow Hall, Kinchen Center, the R. C. Mills Center for Evangelism and Missions, and Carlton Hall are all used for classrooms on campus.

Daniel Plaza

Daniel Plaza is a beautiful gazebo area in the center of the university campus. It provides a unique place for prayer, fellowship, meetings, and special gatherings and events such as musical concerts. Built in 1994, it is dedicated to the J. Nixon Daniel family who served faithfully on the University Board of Trustees for many years.

Recreation Facilities

The BUF Wellness Center houses a full-sized basketball/volleyball court and our Talon Training Facility (fitness room). There is a pool table, and other games upstairs near the indoor walking track. Lake Albert is open for fishing within the guidelines of state regulations and university policy, but swimming and boating are prohibited.

Rules for Use of the BUF Wellness Center 

• Only currently enrolled students, staff, faculty, and administrators of the Baptist University of Florida and their dependents may use the facility.
• Children 18 and under cannot use the facility without a parent accompanying them. PARENTS MUST SUPERVISE THEIR CHILDREN.
• Authorized personnel are permitted to bring one guest. There is no charge for bringing a guest, but each person is responsible for his or her guest, and the guest must obey all the rules of the Wellness Center. The intent of this is that out-of- town guests may use the facility with the authorized user. It is not for the purpose of allowing local persons who are not authorized users to have access to facility.  NOTE: Chapel speakers, trustees, and other authorized campus guests may also use the facility.
• NO food or beverages (other than water) are allowed on the Wellness Center basketball/volleyball court.
• The basketball/volleyball court, Talon Training Facility, and restrooms are accessible during the hours the Wellness Center is open.
• It is recommended that those using free weights have a spotter with them in the Talon Training Facility. The Talon Training Facility equipment is for use at your own risk.
• There should be no throwing of footballs, baseballs, softballs, or frisbees in the Wellness Center. (BUF Intramural sports would be an exception for utilizing outdoor equipment inside the Wellness Center.)
• Only the approved staff is permitted to set up or move the bleachers, basketball goals, and volleyball nets. Permission to help may be given by approved staff only.

Wellness Center/Intramural Field Dress Code

Students are expected to be modestly and appropriately dressed at all times. Clothing with obscene pictures or messages and clothing with advertisements for products not in keeping with BUF’s philosophy are not appropriate. Responsibility for dress is placed upon each student.

Note: The Wellness Center dress code is not campus-wide.

• ONLY athletic footwear is allowed in the recreation areas of the Wellness Center. This includes the Talon Training Facility and basketball/volleyball court.
• ABSOLUTELY NO bare feet, socks, flip flops, dress shoes, boots, or casual shoes allowed in the recreation areas.
• Tops must be worn at all times. True tank tops and sleeveless shirts are allowed (sports bras must be worn underneath, for women). NO crop tops, spaghetti straps, inappropriately tight-fitting or overly revealing clothing (compression leggings or shorts must have loose clothing over them).

Rules for Use of Lake Albert

Student Center

The Farris Student Center is home to Admissions, Student Life, the Kings Cup Café & Bistro, the Campus Store, the President’s Conference Room, and the Student Mailboxes.

Use of University Facilities

All events that require the use of campus facilities must be reserved and recorded on the official school calendar. Those who are planning special events (club meetings, recitals, banquets, etc.) should submit a request through CourseDog Events a minimum of 3 weeks before an event for approval.

Use of 2-4 GHZ Electronic Devices on Campus

WiFi and 802.11b/g devices may be used to access the campus wireless internet service. Use of other 2.4 GHz electronic devices is prohibited on campus. Prohibited devices include 2.4 GHz cordless phones, unauthorized access points, 2.4 GHz radios, and other devices operating on 2.4 GHz.

Intellectual Property

Definitions

Certain terms are used in this policy with specific meanings, as defined in this section. These definitions do not necessarily conform to customary usage.

1. Intellectual property includes any patentable invention, any copyrightable subject matter or trade secret. It also includes works of art and inventions or creations that might normally be developed on a proprietary basis.
2. Creator means any person who creates an item of intellectual property.
3. Substantial use of university facilities means the use of facilities, equipment, personnel and other resources, to a greater extent than that which occurs in the regular course of one’s undertaking to perform the task for which one has been employed, or which is greater than the use afforded to students in the course of their duties. The use of these facilities must be important to the creation of the intellectual property; merely incidental use of a facility does not constitute substantial use, nor does the use of a facility commonly available to all faculty or professional staff and students (such as libraries and offices). (This provision is not intended to override any other department or university policy concerning reimbursement for or facilities usage.)

Policy Provisions

This section states the policies concerning ownership of intellectual property created at the university.

• Externally Sponsored Work. Intellectual property created as a result of work conducted under an agreement between an external sponsor and the university that specifies the ownership of such intellectual property shall be owned as specified in said agreement.

• Internally Sponsored Work. When the university provides funds or facilities for a particular project to the extent of substantial use, it may also choose to declare itself the owner of intellectual property resulting from said work. In such cases, the university must specify in advance the disposition of any intellectual property rights arising from the project. Such notice is to be in writing, and the university may require written acknowledgement of such provisions by any person working on internally sponsored projects. If the university fails to notify a creator, effectively and in advance, of limitations imposed on his intellectual property rights by internal university sponsorship, the creator is entitled to receive from the university 50% (fifty percent) of the net proceeds to the university resulting from intellectual property.

• Individual agreements. Intellectual property which is the subject of a specific agreement between the university and the creator(s) thereof shall be owned as provided in said agreement. Such agreements by the university and the faculty are especially encouraged.

• Intellectual Property Created Within the Scope of Employment. Intellectual property created by university employees who were employed specifically to produce a particular intellectual property shall be owned by the university if said intellectual property was created within the normal scope of their employment. Faculty are presumed not to be hired to produce a particular intellectual property. On the other hand, computer programs written on the job by staff computer programmers fall under this provision.

• Other Intellectual Property. Intellectual property created by university employees and students not within the scope of employment, not by agreement, and not externally or internally sponsored, shall be owned by the university if the creation involved substantial use of university facilities; if the creator did not involve substantial use of university facilities the creation shall be owned by the creator. This provision is designed to prevent unauthorized use of university facilities and to promote agreements as described above.

• Consulting Agreements. Work done by individuals as consultants to outside firms is not to involve substantial use of university facilities, and the rights to intellectual property created under consulting agreements are retained by the outside firms or the individual as specified by the terms of the consulting agreement. Any member of the university community who is engaged in consulting work or in business is responsible for ensuring that the work and the provisions in this agreement are not in conflict with the university’s policies regarding other employment and university facility usage, are not in conflict with the university’s values and mission, and do not prevent the employee of the university from fulfilling his employment duties to the university. Each creator of intellectual property should make his obligation to the university clear to those with whom he makes such agreements and should ensure that they are provided with a current statement of the university’s intellectual property policy.

General Procedures

The creator of any intellectual property that is or might be owned by the university under this policy is required to make reasonably prompt written disclosure of the work to the university President, and to execute any document deemed necessary to perfect legal rights in the university and enable the university to file patent applications and applications for copyright registration when appropriate. This disclosure to the President should be made at the time when legal protection for the creation is contemplated, and it must be made before the intellectual property is sold, used for profit, or disclosed to the public. Whenever legal protection for intellectual property is anticipated all persons engaged in such creative activity are encouraged to keep regular notebooks and records. The university’s share of any proceeds under this policy will be used to reimburse the university for its expenses for commercial development of intellectual property. Any additional returns to the university will be used to further develop the academic purposes of all the disciplines of the entire university.

The Deese Center

The campus dining facility is in the Deese Center. Hours are posted on the website each semester.