The UCF Report, Vol. 02 No. 08, October 3, 1979

              University of Central Florida
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Wednesday, October 3, 1979
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News and Announcements for the Faculty and Staff of the University of Central Florida
1979-80
Knight Notes
UCF has been granted $4.8
million in federal loans for
college housing by the
Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD).
This is nearly 20 percent of
HUD's total allotment
($25 million) for the entire
country.
"Our application was
was approved with the
invaluable assistance of
Congressman Bill Nelson,"
said Dr. Alan Fickett,
Special Assistant to the
President. "The
competition was tough
due to the limited funds
available."
Fickett said that the
loan will allow UCF to more
than double its student
housing with an additional
432 spaces by the summer
of 1981.
An Alaskan couple has
written UCF in hopes of
finding a "snowless Christmas."
The two are teachers and
said they have been involved
with many other teachers in
"exchanging houses," during
certain times of the year.
They would now like to house
sit for someone on the UCF
faculty this Christmas.
If anyone is interested
they can contact:  Mrs. Kay
Pearson, 603 Deermont,
Ketchikan, Alaska, 99901.
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A glimpse of the year ahead
This story is compiled from
projections by the President and
Vice-Presidents, submitted to
The UCF Report. Goals and areas
of concern for the coming academic
year have been highlighted.
President Colbourn
Looking to the coming year, we
have the question of leadership for
the University System — who will succeed Chancellor York — the question
of the kind of system that we will
have. On campus, we do, of course,
have some pleasant things to look at
apart from the mixed blessing of
potentially larger classes and the
delightful prospect of 7 o'clock in
the morning classes. Among some of
the nicer things we can look at is the
fact that we did get some significant
quality improvement funding in the
current budget which promises to be
still more significant next year.
While this is going to help us do some
of the things we wish with regard to
our computer science program and some
of our service centers, it is also
going to help us in our efforts to
enhance research opportunities, provide
for visiting lecturers of some distinction, we trust, and visiting professorships, all of which will be of
inestimable value to the campus as a
whole.
We can look forward, I hope, to
progress with our proposed Research
Park. There is no reason to be other
than optimistic on that score. We can
look, I   hope, for significant further
progress with regard to capital outlay'—
subject, of course, to a study presently
being undertaken in Tallahassee.
To prove how optimistic I really
can be, I think we can look forward to
some reform of a constructive and useful sort in terms of our general education requirements.  This is not the
occasion to dwell on that beyond noting
that it is, in my judgment, a critical
issue, and it   is an issue that I expect
to be returning to with the Faculty
Senate in the very near future.
We can look forward to a further
advance in our fund-raising efforts.
You might bear in mind that we were
last year able to essentially double
our fund-raising over the previous year.
I would like to pay my respects to the
people involved and particularly to the
members of the University of Central
Florida Foundation Board currently
presided over by Blair Culpepper of
Winter Park Federal. There has been a
significant change in the organization
of the Board which will allow, I hope,
for greater flexibility and still more
tangible results in meeting certain
needs of the University from the
private sector. We can already point
to progress with regard to developing
a merit   scholarship program which I
hope one day might lead to an honors
program, too.
And we can look increasingly to
the Foundation as a means of providing
increasingly needed help from the
private sector.   Perhaps the money
necessary to plan for the Performing
Arts facility — to move that forward,
for example. We would very much like
to see a major effort that could let
us participate in the state-assisted
endowed professorships.   If we can raise
-$600,000 for this purpose in the next
four years, the State will contribute
$400,000. That, of course, is no small
challenge.  It is one that we certainly
are going to attempt.
We will this year be looking for
our first administrative reviews under
procedures developed during the past
year with the Faculty Senate. And we
will be looking to an enhancement of
our commencement ceremony in a way
in which we hope will again add to the
visibility and luster of the University
and its graduates.
There are, in short, no lack of
items that we can list that we regard
as realizable,  as items which will
materially add to the flavor and the
quality of this University.
Vice President Ellis
Academic Affairs
The coming year will be a unique
one in the history of the University
and particulary for Academic Affairs.
The extensive reorganization
announced this past year will
undoubtedly occupy a sizeable segment
of our time and efforts as we enter
into the implementation and
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FALL QUARTER BEGINS - The first
■ day of classes and a record enrollment
~o7 about 12,000 students brought a
traffic jam to UCF that resembled
summer*gas lines. By 8 a.m. September
24, a line of bumper-to-bumper cars
filled almost the entire length of
University Boulevard. As the week
. wore on, however, and everyone
became more acclimated to new
schedules, the pace grew less
hectic
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