The UCF Report, Vol. 06 No. 39, June 13, 1984

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The UCF Report
Volume 6, Number 39
for the Faculty and Staff
Wednesday, June 13, 1984
A better year ahead for UCF
Budget funds Library books, CEBA II
The 1 984 legislature was serious in
addressing state university funding,
leaving an overall impression that the
system and UCF will be better off in the
year ahead.
For the state university system a $1 2
million appropriation for library acquisitions is up from $7.2 million last year,
and another $3.1 million has been earmarked to move toward computerized
information exchange throughout SUS.
For UCF, $500,000 was set aside to
plan Phase II of the College of Engineering and Business Administration building. (Phase I is the engineering complex
taking shape behind the computer and
theater buildings.) The $264,000 for
library equipment is a timely appropriation now that the Library addition and
renovation is finished.
The following is from the Orlando
Sentinel, June 11 issue, by permission
of the writer, Virginia Linn:
"For universities, their $470 million
operating budget increased 8 percent
over last year.
"The legislature also authorized the
use of up to $2 million to help equalize
funding for schools, such as UCF, that
have not received their fair share
Salaries
going up,
but Later
Salary increases will come to university employees out of the legislature's
1 984 session, for faculty, possibly as
early as Aug. 1 5, but for career service,
Dec. 1 and Jan. 1, 1985.
The following information is taken
from a salary summary of the 1 984-85
general appropriations act conference
committee report:
Career Service
*AFSCME represented employees,
4.29 percent, effective 12/1/84,
includ ing special class adjustments.
*Florida Nurses Association
employees, 5 percent, effective
1/1/85.
"State Police Charter and Police
Benevolent Association employees, 5
percent to be used to establish a step
pay program in accordance with the
collective bargaining agreement.
* AM other Career Service, 5 percent, effective 1/1/85.
BOR Pay Plan
"Faculty (Unit and Non-Unit) and
Selected A&P, 5 percent, no earlier
than 8/1 5/84 in accordance with
BOR-    UFF agreement.
•Faculty (Unit and Non-Unit) and
Selected A&P, funds equivalent to
addi    tional 1 percent may be used at
discre    tion of BOR —not bargainable.
"All Non-Unit A&P, 5 percent,
effective 1/1/85.
Tom Netsel does a photographer's walkaround of UCF's
latest showcase..See his picture
spread, pages 4 and 5.
because of rapid growth. Lawmakers,
some of whom disagreed an equity
problem existed, asked the regents to
study the problem again. Money will be
appropriated based on the results of
that study, said Carl Blackwell, regent
budget director.
"A 1 2.5 percent tuition increase will
provide $10 million more for universities. This will cost the typical student
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It was better than expected
UCF President Trevor Colbourn viewed the education budget from this
perspective:
"On balance, considering the fiscal circumstances, the university system
did as well or better than expected.
"There was no way new taxes would be levied —in the context of the
way Proposition One affected the process. New revenue projections
obviously complicated the state budget.
"It was gratifying in the extreme to see the approval for planning money
for Phase II of CEBA and the equipment money for/the Library, both of
which were very important to UCF
"It was extremely disappointing to see such a nominal salary adjustment
for Career Service and A&P employees the second year in a row, and! 6f
course, the pay raise for faculty hardly takes us very far toward the top
quartile target.
"The librarians have particular reason for disappointment. I must say the
Regents labored very hard for more appropriations for salary increases.
"Of course there was an ongoing legislative concern for K-1 2. but there
was just not enough money available to do what legislators wanted done
— namely enhance public education in Florida significantly.
"However, if the economy remains strong next year I think we have
grounds for optimism."
$1 25 more a year.
"Because the legislature had to trim
$196 million from its $13 billion budget
when state revenue estimates fell short,
money ran out when it came time to
fund salary raises for faculty and career
service employees, said Regent Chairman Robin Gibson.
"Faculty received only a 5 percent
increase instead of the average 9.7 percent raise requested, which would have
brought salaries closer to those offered
by states in the top 25 percent of the
nation. Five percent raises for career
service workers do not begin until
midyear, decreasing the amount they
will receive.
"Gibson said he will recommend two
steps to ease the problem of faculty
salaries. He will ask that an additional 1
percent —$2.7 million— to be spent for
faculty at the regents' discretion, be put
toward salaries.
"He also will suggest that salaries be
given one of the highest priorities in the
regents' request to the legislature next
year.
"Salaries, particularly faculty salaries
are going to occupy the same sense of
urgency this time as libraries occupied
last time," Gibson said.
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College of Engineering produces
first two of many with doctorals
College of Engineering will confer two
doctoral degrees at summer commencement on July 27, some 13 years
after asking permission to have a doctoral program.
Robert James Martin, Florida native,
and Madjid A. Belkerdid, born in Algeria, are the successful candidates.
Both married and raising families, the
two have shared an office, taught
classes and underwent similar difficult
studies for the past two years.
"Bob and I have been like brothers,"
Belkerdid exclaimed last week as they
shared the relief of all doctoral candidates a few minutes after their own
examining committees addressed them
with the title, "Doctor."
Born in Mulberry and raised in
Orlando, Martin graduated from Edge-
water High School in 1960. Before he
graduated he went to Vo-Tech at nights
to earn an electronics technician's certificate, which he took to the Martin Co.
to land a job testing LaCrosse, Pershing
and Bullpup missiles.
"And then I saw how much faster a
real engineer could solve problems and
I decided to be an engineer," he recalls.
He earned his BSE from University of
South Florida in 1969. Martin Co. hired
him as an engineer, but by then he had
decided on a master's degree, and
began seeking it, one course a semester
through Genesys. He finished at FTU in
1977, having left Martin Co. in 1976.
Back in industry, Martin tried Fourdee
Inc., Casselberry electronics production
plant, and rose to vice president of
engineering, with 60 employees.
Emerson Electric bought his company
and wanted him to move to St. Louis,
and about that time he decided to
accept a UCF job as a visiting assistant
professor in electrical engineering  It
gave him a chance to work on his doctorate. While studying he taught three
courses and advised 57 students.
Martin plans to spend more time with
his wife, Sara, and sons. Glen, 14, and
Eric, 1 2. He would like to stay in teaching, but is confident he could move back
into industry.
Belkerdid's immediate goal is also to
spend time with his family —his wife,
Siiri, and their new and first child,
Danny.
Belkerdid says he loves teaching and
would like to stay in Florida, having no
desire to return to his native Algeria,
which he left in 1972, enrolling at the
University of Miami.
After two years he transferred to FTU,
and in his last semester, decided he
would rather have an electrical engineering degree than one in industrial
engineering, where he started. He
ended with both.
He worked in electronic design engineering with Quip Systems, Altamonte
Springs, a year before he came back to
UCF to pursue his master's in electrical
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UCF'S FIRST DOCTORS OF ENGINEERING
.Madjid Belkerdid of Algeria and Bob Martin, a Florida native.