Central Florida Future, Vol. 06 No. 25, May 10, 1974

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Orlando, Florida
As an introduction to
Greek Week, these floats
launched five days of Greek
activities with a parade
Tuesday. Parties follow
today's Greek sing in the
Village Center. Saturday has
been set aside as Games Day
with chariot, ice and tricycle
races, games, a lunch basket
auction and an awards party
to round up the week.
(Photos by Walt Morris)
A&S   Fee   Short
By $250,000
'Valuable To Students'
Activity and Service Fee
(A&SF) budget requests for
1974-75 exceed anticipated
revenues by an amount in excess
of a quarter of a million dollars.
The A&SF budget committee is
presently trying to resolve this
difference without lowering the
quality of programs and
activities funded through the
A&SF.
Course Categorizing Sought
By Terry Carr
FTU Registrar Dan Chapman and seven FTU
professors attended a recent Key West conference
charged with categorizing the 48,000 courses
offered in Florida into a proposed statewide
common course designation and numbering
system.
Chapman, who originated the system along
with Florida College Registrar Roland Lewis seven
years ago, described the meeting as beneficial and
productive. Chapman is also vice chairman and
secretary of the statewide committee developing
the system.
Chapman said the conference consisted of
representatives from all state universities,
community colleges and participating private
colleges. Participants were broken down into "task
forces" of the various disciplines which met to
develop the taxonomy which will be used in the
classification system.
Key West was chosen as the locale for the
meeting, according to Chapman, in hopes that
"the enticement of a recreational area would spur
action."
The format developed at the conference will be
reviewed by participating institutions and, if
necessary, revised. Chapman said he hopes the plan
can be implemented by the fall of 1976.
Chapman said the benefits of the plan lie
primarily in its value to students. With a statewide
designation and numbering system, a transferring
student "knows exactly what they've had as does
his advisor and all persons involved," he said.
Considering the fact that 80 per cent of college
Plans have been made, to
contact the head of each area
concerned and inform them of
the seriousness of the deficet
and ask them to try and revise
their budgets according.
As reported earlier in the
FuTUre, two reasons for the
shortage of funds are the
anticipated drop in A&SG
revenues because of the new fee
structure now before the Florida
Legislature and the increased
amount of money which must
be placed in the interest and
sinking fund.
In    other    developments,
Student Government President
Lee Constantine has requested
an opinion from the attorney
general regarding the "local
control of activity fees." His
request concerns the fact that
the fees are locally collected and
dispursed and his opinion that as
such should not have to meet
the same requirements as funds
received from the state.
In Tallahassee, a bill is
presently being considered
which would place all budgetary
controls on the A&SF money in
the hands of the student
goverments at the local
university.
students in the state of Florida transfer at least
one e before graduating, Chapman said the need
for a "communicative device', to prevent course
duplication and minimize student frustration due
to erroneous transcript evaluation is great.
Chapman also maintained that administrators
and faculty will benefit from a system of
standardized designation and numbering of
courses. He said the system will facilitate
evaluation of comparable programs and will
provide a means of identifying "any lack of
continuity between community college offerings
and preparation and university requirements."
The project will reduce the 48,000 different
courses offered in the state of Florida to 7-8,000
categories. Many out of state institutions have
expressed interest in the plan and are studying
Florida's progress.
Dr. Richard R. Adicks, FTU professor of
English and participant at the Key West
conference, feels the plan is "unnecessary and
potentially too restrictive." He said, "The plan
would put all the departments in the state in the
same mold. Each institution should have the right
to be autonomous-to plan what they want."
Maintaining that the plan can "stifle change and
growth in programs," Adicks said that the task
forces on language and literature, art and math are
all drafting statements in opposition to the
project.
Chapman disagreed with Adicks' position. He
said, "We have not and never intend to tell a
college what to teach. They can have whatew
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FrU Registrar Dan Chapman, above, along with seven
FTU faculty members recently attended a state-wide
university meeting in Key West to formulate a system of
comparative course numbering. Chapman is one of the
originators of the plan. (Photo by Mike Padgett)