Central Florida Future, Vol. 08 No. 24, April 23, 1976

              Summer registration
slated for finals week
By HOLLY CRISWELL
Staff Writer
In response to overwhelming student.and faculty dissatisfaction
with registration and positive Student Government action, FTU
Vice-President of Academic Affairs CB. Gambrell recently approved a
proposal  to hold registration  for the summer quarter during finals
week. ____^——_—«■
Summer registration schedule, page 3
DR. C. B. GAMBRELL
—Approves change
SG voting
ends today
Today is students' last
opportunity to cast a ballot
for student body president
and vice-president from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Kiosk
and in front of the library
and snack bar.
Anyone with an FTU ID
card and registered with at
least one credit hour of
classes is eligible to vote.
The proposed revision of
the FTU Student Body
Constitution, originally
scheduled to appear on this
week's ballot, will not be
included because Student
Government failed to provide
the required seven days
notice to the student body. It
will be on the ballot April 29
and 30, probably with an
anticipated run-off election
for president and
vice-president polls will be
open for that election during
the same times and at the
same locations as today's
election.
SG representatives including Gary Andersen and Rick Walsh,
student body president and vice-president, met with representatives
from Computer Services, the Registrar's Office and faculty last week
and successfully presented their case for rescheduling registration, but
failed to have an advance registration time approved.
Advance registration, according to Andersen, is simply too costly
for the university to be reinstated, but having a combined registration
during finals week is "not as bad as having it during the break," he
stated.
Andersen said an earlier proposal to hold registration during the
seventh week of classes was rejected at the meetings and replaced with
one to hold it during finals week because, "Students might skip classes
in order to register but they won't skip their finals."
The new registration time has the distinct academic advantage,
interjected Andersen, of affording students additional classroom time
often denied them.
"Most teachers give their finals during the last week of classes so
that they don't have to come in during finals week," explained
Andersen, "Now that faculty will have to be here, they might teach
during the last week and give their finals when they're supposed to,"
he added.
"Some students might object to taking time out from studying for
finals to register/' said Andersen, "but everybody needs to take a
break from the books, and at most they'll only lose an hour or two,"
he added.
Photo by Mike Padgett
REGGIE X.N. DE MYLLIS II, a 5-foot-4, 240 pound
humanoid, propelled himself around the VC patio
Thursday, passing out applications for screen tests at
Fashion Square to flabbergasted passers-by. Reggie appeared
courtesy of Quasar Industries and the VC Board.
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Vol. 8 Friday, April 23, 1976 No.
24
Two profs file complaints, another
plans to quit in tenure disputes
By KERRY FAUNCE
Associate Editor
Two faculty members have
filed additional tenure-related
complaints and one plans to
resign, indicating what may be a
growing opposition to tenure
policies.
Dr. Vaniah Baldwin, assistant
professor of engineering and Dr.
Edwin C. Shirkey, assistant
professor of psychology have
recently raised additional
questions about State University
System tenure guidelines. Dr.
Klaus W. Lindenburg, associate
professor of engineering, has
decided he does not "want to
work with these people."
Baldwin is seeking legal
counsel in his case which
involves "engineering ethics."
According to Baldwin,
attorney Michael F. Cycmanick
has agreed to represent him
without charge. Cycmanick also
represents Dr. Henry Van
Twyver, who was denied tenure
last quarter.
Baldwin's complaints center
around a statement on his
faculty evaluation criticizing
church attendance. Baldwin said,
"I explained that I had
eliminated all my church
activities except attendance at
Sunday morning service and he
(Dean Robert D. Kersten)
replied: I see nothing wrong
with a supervisor commenting
on an employe's excessive
external activities."
An examination of the
evaluation reveals the
Departmental Evaluation
Committee also criticized
Baldwin's supervision of
students, interest in teaching
courses other than ENGR
151/152 (Chemical Foundations
of Engineering ) and public
service.
The discrepancy, Baldwin
said, is that all previous
departmental evaluations rate
him satisfactorily and within the
top 50 per cent of the
engineering faculty.
Baldwin's last evaluation
(Feb. 7, 1974) by Department
Chairman David R. Jenkins
states, "Dr. Baldwin's thorough
commitment to teaching, which
was cited last year, is again one
of his strong poiknts., ... I
believe he has balanced his
participation in these (service)
activities against his other
assignments in such a way that
one is not done to the detriment
of the others."
The memorandum concludes,
"In my view, his greatest asset is
willingness to work hard to
discharge his academic
responsibilities."
When asked why he had
signed the faculty evaluation not
recommending Baldwin for
tenure, Jenkins said he was not
the only one who took part in
the decision. Jenkins also said he
could not discuss the evaluation
and that the form was
self-explanatory.
DR. VAN BALDWIN
—Seeks legal aid
Baldwin also complained that
"secret" memorandas were put
in his personnel file without his
knowledge. The memorandas
contain statements criticizing
teaching performance in one of
17 courses he taught, he
explained.
While FTU legal counsel John
D. Mahaffey Jr. and Cycmanick
said the procedure is legal,
Baldwin said the action is not
ethical. "You'll find the
majority of faculty don't even
know they have access to their
file," he explained.
While Baldwin has been
disputing a tenure denial,
Shirkey has been fighting to
withdraw a tenure application.
According to Shirkey, "The
administration has clearly stated
that a faculty member may
withdraw an application for
tenure nomination at any time
without prejudice." Shirkey said
he subsequently submitted a
request to withdraw his fifth
year application for tenure and
was informed he would be given
a terminal contract for doing so.
The issue was taken to the
April 13 meeting of the Faculty
Senate. Vice President for
Academic Affairs C. B. Gambrell
insisted Shirkey could remove
his application without
prejudice, but he needed the
consent of the department
chairman to wait until his sixth
year for application.
Gambrell suggested that
Shirkey speak to chainnan David
W. Abbott personally and
admonished, "You should have
discussed it before the process
was begun. Once the application
has been submitted, it must
continue (until) its conclusion."
Later, the Faculty Senate
passed a resolution calling for
the administration to allow
withdrawal of an application
without prejudice prior to
consideration by the president.
Shirkey was later informed by
Gambrell that his chairman
concurred with his desire to
withdraw the application
without jeopardizing continued
employment.
Lindenburg is planning to
resign rather than challenge his
tenure denial. A sixth year
employe, he has received
opposition to tenure nomination
Continued on page 2
Enrollment
drop eases
fiscal pinch
By MYRON CARDEN
Associate Editor
A drop in enrollment and the
allocation of enrollment reserve
money has lessened somewhat
the financial crunch which had
FTU administrators scratching
their heads as to whether thery
would be enough money to
make it through the fiscal year.
Preliminary enrollment figures
for spring quarter indicate that
9,263 students are registered for
classes. This is a drop from
winter quarter's 10,129
students. A spokesman in the
Academic Affairs Division said
the enrollment drop between
winter and spring quarters is a
yearly occurrence.
John Phillip Goree, vice
president for business affairs,
said the drop in enrollment "has
improved the student-faculty
class ratio." But he said, "there
are probably still large classes."
In February, $456,333 in
enrollment reserve money was
received by FTU. Enrollment
reserve money is funds set aside
by the BOR for schools who
experience increases in
enrollment. FTU had a 30 per
cent enrollment increase fall
quarter.
According to John Bolte,
associate vice president for
Academic Affairs, the funds
were distributed "upon review
of the most pressing needs by
the college deans."
Bolte said $189,826 was used
"to hire additional faculty,
faculty adjuncts, student
assistants and to provide
additional secretarial assistance."
He said $109,798 was spent
for expenses. "These funds were
needed to purchase expendable
supplies, increase instructional
services, and make possible
limited faculty travel," he
explained.
Most of the remaining
$156,709 was used to purchase
operating capital equipment,
Bolte said. The purchase of this
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