Central Florida Future, Vol. 07 No. 25, May 2, 1975

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AACSB Accepts Undergraduate Division
Business Prograihs Accredited
By Bruce Carden
Intern Writer
FTU's College of Business
Administration received a
preotigious boost forward when it
was announced April 22 that its
undergraduate programs had
been accredited by the American
Association of Collegiate Schools
.of Business (AACSB).
The announcement was made
at the Las Vegas meeting of the
AACSB which was attended by
FTU's President Charles
Millican, Newel Cornish, Acting
Dean of Business Administration,
Dr. Richard Reidenbach,
.chairman of the Department of
Business Administration,
Assistant Dean Franklin Hitt,
and Jackson Winchester,
Coordinator of the Graduate
Program.
The action was hailed by
President Millican as "a
tremendous honor."
Winchester said, "From a
prestigious point of view the
? weditation is very important."
n|,aid it would result in worldwide publicity for the college and
would make the college more
attractive to business students.
..Dr. Cornish said in a news
release that the accreditation
was granted after an exhaustive
self-appraisal by the FTU
business faculty, followed by a
visitation to the campus by deans
from Georgia State, Southern
Illinois and Texas Tech
Universities and John Osborne of
the Ford Motor Company in mid-
January. The on-campus study
began in 1973, under the direction
of the late Dr. Charles E.
Gilliland, Jr., Dean of the College
until his death on March 16 of this
year.
According to Cornish, to be
considered for AACSB accreditation, a college or
university must undergo scrutiny
in a variety of areas to meet the
standards set for membership in
the organization. Among them
are the overall effectiveness of a
program, based upon the number
of graduates, the relationship of
the programs to the community,
the quality of the faculty, and the
provision of required core subjects in business administration.
The accreditation also adds
new dimension to the degrees
already conferred by the College
of Business Administration,
added Dr. Reidenbach, a former
executive secretary of the
AACSB. More than 1,400 degrees
have been awarded by the college
since 1968, when FTU began
classes. Reidenbach also said he
believes there will be more
students applying to the college
as a result of the accreditation.
Undergraduates degree
programs   offered   include   ac-
Photo by Fred Sommer
BAGPIPER JAMES WOOD, originally from England
and now residing in Orlando, was on the FTU campus
for the Foreign Language Festival held last Friday and
Saturday. For full page of photos, page 12.
countancy, business administration, economics, finance,
management and marketing.
Winchester said the college has
plans to go forward on accreditation of its masters
program. He expects an application for accreditation to be
submitted in June, 1976 and
hopes for the announcement of
accreditation to take place in
April, 1977 at the AACSB's annual
meeting.
Of the more than 600 colleges
and universities nationally which
offer degree programs in
business administration, less
than 200 have been granted
AACSB accreditation, Reidenbach said. In Florida, in addition
to FTU, they include University
of Florida, Florida State
University, University of South
Florida and University of Miami.
Another benefit of AACSB
accreditation, added Reidenbach, is authority to form an FTU
chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma, a
national business honorary
comparable to Phi Beta Kappa,
and a campus chapter of Beta
Alpha Psi, national accounting
honorary.
Dr. Clarence Avery, Chairman
of the Department of Accountancy, said he plans to move
ahead this week on formation of
Beta Alpha Bsi. He said another
requirement for formation of the
honorary is the existence for at
least two years of a student accounting society which FTU has
also fulfilled.
Reidenbach also said he plans
to begin work on the formation of
the business honorary.
SG Runoff Election Today
By Glenn R. Padgett
Contributing News Editor
Four students will be battling it
out at the polls today in an effort
to be elected to one of the Student
Government executive positions.
Because no candidate received
a majority of the ballots cast in
the spring election held last
Thursday and Friday, the top two
vote gatherers in each race are
today competing in a run-off
election.
The candidates involved in the
run-off are: for President of the
student body, Gary Andersen and
Jim Davis; for Vice President,
Rick Walsh and Mary Ellen Leon.
This is the first time in the
history of SG that a run-off
election has had to be held. The
election rules were rewritten last
year before the spring election, to
provide that a candidate must
receive a majority of the votes
cast in order to be elected. In all
previous elections a plurality was
all that was required.
The election wiil be held today
from nine a.m. until four p.m. in
two locations: in front of the
library lobby and in front of the
Snack Bar. All that is required in
order to vote is the presentation
of a Student ID card at the polling
place.
LAST WEEKS ELECTION
: In the election held last week,
slightly more than 1300 students
cast ballots for the candidate of
their choice. Out of the nearlv
FEA Awards State
Solar Energy Center
The Federal Energy Administration (FEA) has awarded
the Florida Solar Energy Center,
located at FTU's Cape Canaveral
research center, a $15,000 short-
term contract.
According to Robert B. Mautz,
Chancellor of the Board of
Regents, the contract calls for
the Florida Center to provide:
- Support of FEA in its efforts to
accelerate development of solar
water 'heater standards and
consumer information.
- Development of preliminary
test standards testing procedures
and certification criteria.
- Development of preliminary
specifications and guidelines for
solar water heating applications
for both new and existing
buildings.
- Review of draft model state
legislation, regulations and
building codes which may be
used in Florida, but may be
adaptable to other states.
According to Robert D. Kersten, Dean of the College of
Fngineering, Governor Askew
signed the contract last Thursday
and mailed it to Washington, D.C.
lor approval.
After the contract is cleared in
Washington.   D.   C     FTU   will
begin to receive the money for
the research center.
In January of this year, the
BOR designated FTU's Cape
Canaveral research center as the
Florida Solar Energy Center to
provide a statewide cooperative
solar energy research effort
involving public and private
colleges and universities, consulting firms, industrial firms
and state and federal agencies.
Because the Center is a
statewide effort, persons from all
over . the state, primarily with
science and engineering
backgrounds, are involved in the
research project, said Kersten.
The Center has already begun
to receive its state budget of $1
million for the first year.
According to Kersten, this $1
million has opened up 15 jobs at
the Center, out of a total of 27
contemplated for this year.
Major factors contributing to
FTU's Cape Canaveral center
being named for solar energy
research include: its location
near the center of the state and
convenience to the whole nation
via McCoy jetport^ as well as the
proximity of Kennedy Space
Center and other space related
industries to the FTU center.
8500 students enrolled at FTU,
that amounts to slightly more
than 15 per cent. Last year's
election, which had the lowest
recorded voter turnout in FTU
history, also had only 15 per cent
of the voters cast ballots.
Because of the increase in the
size of the population of eligible
students, however, the turnout
this time was much larger in
terms of students who voted, but
about the same in terms of
percentage.
In the Presidential race 1303
students voted! Gary Andersen
received 476 votes, Jim Davis
received 548 votes, and David
Outlaw gathered 273 votes. A
candidate would have had to
receive 652 votes in order to win
on the first ballot. John Chanudet
received six write-in ballots.
In the Vice-Presidential
election Cathy Kane got 104
votes, Mary Ellen Leon gathered
346 voteSj Rob Vezina gathered
318 and Rick Walsh received 494
votes. A total of 1263 ballots were
cast for vice-presidential candidates. In order to win on the
first ballot, a candidate would
have had to receive 632 votes.
The ballots were counted last
Saturday, April 26 at one p.m. in
Village Center room 200. Four
members of the elections commission, representatives from
SG, the various candidates, as
well as the FuTUre supervised
the counting. Because of the
closeness between Leon and
Vezina, a recount of all the Vice-
Presidential ballots was performed.
Looking Into
The FuTUre
Females   Head   AFROTC
Team...Pag 7
Leonard   Nimoy   Visits
FTU,     Full     Page     of
Photos...Page 9
Bicentennial    Celebration
Planned  For FTU...Page
10