The Bob Graham Center for Public Service provides a wide variety of programs for students and the larger public on topics related to public service, public leadership and civic engagement.
Latest Past Events
Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives – Will Weatherford
Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, Will Weatherford spoke at the Bob Graham Center as part of the Florida Leadership Series. Weatherford discussed a host of national and local issues, including the importance of civic engagement, term limits, the Affordable Care Act, education reform and online education, unemployment and poverty. The event was at
John Bul Dau – Journey to Leadership
John Bul Dau explores territory few can imagine—the depths of inhumanity and the boundaries of endurance. In 1987, at age 13, Dau fled his home in southern Sudan, narrowly escaping troops sent to exterminate all black Christian males. As his village was burned, women raped, children enslaved, and young men shot, Dau began a perilous
Jon Mills and Neil Chonin – Quality of Public Schools
Jon Mills, former Speaker of the Florida House and former Dean of the University of Florida's Levin College of Law, along with Neil Chonin, litigation director of the Southern Legal Counsel, discussed the upcoming landmark trial Citizens for Strong Schools v. Florida State Board of Education on Thursday, October 10 at UF’s Levin College of Law, Room