The UCF Report, Vol. 08 No. 05, August 21, 1985

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The UCF Report
Volume 8, Number 5
For Faculty and Staff
August 21, 1985
Women head 4 departments
48 new members join faculty for fall '85
DBCC/UCF
bids come
under budget
LeCesse Corp. of Orlando was under
budget and apparent low bidder last
Thursday, Aug. 15, at $3,830,000 to
build an all-purpose building for UCF on
the Daytona Beach Community College
campus.
When completed in about a year and
a half it will provide a DBCC/UCF Lifelong Living Center, similar to the pioneer joint use at Cocoa in Brevard
County. Dr. Harold Green, director of
the Daytona campus since the University opened, says it will expand office
and classroom space from the present
5,000 to 23,000 square feet.
The community college will be the
builder-owner of the new three-story
building, and occupy the remainder of
the 50,000 square feet of space. The 11
bids ranged up to $4.4 million, but the
three lowest came under the $4 million
budgeted, Dr. Green said.
The community college board of governors will get the tabulated bids and
recommendation at its September meeting, Green said. If an award is made, a
January 1987 opening would be
possible.
WUCF-FM to go
round-the-clock
in September
UCF will move up to a 24-hour broadcast format over campus station WUCF-
FM starting Sept. 1.
The station currently is on the air 19
hours during the week, and 18 hours on
weekends.
The change in hours also will bring
some program changes, general manager Keith Fowles noted. "Starlight
Concert," a 2-hour syndicated program,
will be aired from 6-to-8 p.m. weekdays.
"Prime Time Jazz," now scheduled from
8-to-11 p. m. weekdays, will be
expanded two hours until 1 a.m. "Nite
Rock" will be rescheduled from 1 -to-6
a.m. daily.
In a related item, the most recent
Arbitron survey shows the WUCF-FM
listening audience has increased 31
percent since last fall, said Fowles. In
little more than a year, since the spring
of 1984, the increase stands at 115
percent, he added.
" Tis pleasant to observe how free the
present Age is in laying taxes on the
next."
—Jonathan Swift
"No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind."
—W. Somerset Maugham
"Democratic nations care little for what
has been, but they are haunted by
visions of what may be."
—Alexis de Tocqueville
To reach a goal
Head football coach Gene McDowell gives prospective players a
serious pre-season message — they've got to play the kind of game
that attracts and holds public support. (See story on Page 3.)
5 UCF employees placed
on key SUS task forces
UCF is well represented on task forces charged with shaping personnel policy for the time the Board of Regents
assumes responsibility for Career Service employees next July.
According to Carol Surles, associate
vice president for Human Resources,
UCF is represented by Gary Meiseles,
Classifications; Jim Cherepow, Labor/
Employee Relations; Linda Meiseles,
Attendance and Leave; Dan Coleman,
who is chairman of Data, and Mary
Alford, Benefits.
In comments last week to the Staff
Council, Dr. Surles said that when she
was appointed to the Council on Administrative and Financial Affairs (CAFA)
of the State University Systems she
found that CAFA had appointed only
two from UCF to serve on personnel
task forces. She was able to get that
number increased to five.
She advised council members to
solicit employee recommendations and
to pass them on to her, or any of the
five delegates as soon as possible.
Task forces already have begun meeting and are scheduled to make their
first draft report and recommendations
by Oct. 18. After receiving comments on
their initial work the task forces will
submit final reports by Dec. 20.
Surles predicted that there would be
changes resulting from BOR's takeover
from the Department of Administration,
but that there would be no drastic
changes in contractual arrangements.
She observed that the nine state universities differ in character and,
although the goal of the new law is conformity within the SUS, there remains a
need to create some job classifications
that other universities do not have.
Surles is in a key position, serving on
the Transition Policy Committee and for
the BOR is liaison on two task forces,
Labor/Employee Relations and
Recruitment, Selection and
Appointment.
All the revised regulations go back to
the Legislature on March 1, 1986 for
approval by the Speaker of the House
and the President of the Senate.
Parking decals
due by Sept. 3
The best time to buy parking decals
for 1985-86 that are due on your vehicle by Sept. 3 is before 8 a.m. or after 5
p.m., according to Marcia Katte, traffic
and parking manager.
To handle sales for 15,000-plus students and 1,000-plus employees the
Police Department will open at 7 a.m.
and not close until 8 p.m., Monday
through Friday until Aug. 30, she said.
Her advice is to come early, or late,
and especially to avoid the expected
noon rush. Buyers must produce vehicle
registration and University ID.
"C" decals cost $15 and "B" decals
$26 per year for cars. About 300 were
sold last week at the Administration
Building. Those who missed the early-
buy opportunity must go to the Police
Department.
Fall term begins Monday with 48 new
faces among a faculty of about 650 and
an estimated enrollment of 16,000
students.
A new dean. Dr. Ronald M. Gerughty,
College of Health, and five new chairpersons — four of whom are women —
are included in the list of academic
newcomers.
The four new women with chair ranking eclipses the former high of two
female chairpersons, each in the College of Health, and marks a new level of
participation by women in academic
administration at UCF.
"There has been a void and it took a
nationwide search to find quality
women, including one who was already
on our faculty," said Janet Park Bala-
noff, assistant director of the Department of Human Resources.
"While we do not have a quota system on campus, we no longer can be
considered under-represented by
women in academic administration.
Within the wide category of administration, though, we could use more women
and minorities," she said.
Three of the new chairpersons are in
the College of Arts and Sciences and
two in the College of Health.
New chairs in Arts and Sciences
include:
Statistics — Dr. Linda Malone is an
associate professor who has been on
campus since 1979, having started as
an assistant professor and most
recently serving as director of the Institute of Statistics.
Art — Dr. Maude Southwell Wahl-
man, has been at the University of Mississippi since 1980, the last year as
director of its fine arts center art gallery.
She holds degrees from Colorado College, Northwestern and a PhD in art history from Yale. She is an associate professor at UCF.
Political Science — Dr. Joyce R. Lilie
has been an associate professor in Political Science at Florida International
University since 1974. She was chairperson in that department for two years.
Her BA is from Marshall University and
advance degrees from Johns Hopkins.
New chairs in Health:
Nursing — Jean C. Kijek, PhD, RN,
former chairperson and associate professor at Lienhard School of Nursing,
Pace University, Pleasantville, N.Y. She
gained her BS at Rutgers and advance
degrees at New York University.
Communicative Disorders — Dr.
David L. Ratusnik, who earned three
degrees at Northwestern and was director and professor, section of speech and
hearing sciences, College of Health
Sciences, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's
Medical Center, Chicago.
Dr. Dan Coleman, director of Institutional Resarch, sees a virtually
unchanging pattern of enrollment,
characterized by about one percent
growth and continuing heavy representation of community students.
To make some order out of potential
commuter chaos, traffic lights are scheduled to be in operation at three of the
four campus entrances off Alafaya early
in the academic term. The entrance at
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