The UCF Report, Vol. 11 No. 04, August 24, 1988

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UCF REPORT
Volume 11, Number 4
For Faculty and Staff
August 24,1988
CC transfers
doing well in
GPA statistics
Florida community college transfers
outnumber undergraduates who started
at UCF as freshman by better than 2-1/2
to 1 and perform with nearly equal academic proficiency, recent data from the
Office of Institutional Research and
Planning shows.
According to Dr. Daniel R. Coleman,
director, Institutional Research and
Planning, Florida public community college transfers accounted for 59 per cent
of last fall's undergraduate enrollment of
12,812 students. Native UCF students
accounted for 23 percent of the total,
while SUS transfers and out-of-state
transfers comprised 13 and 5 percent of
the undergraduate population respectively.
At the upper division level, the impact
of Florida community college graduates
is most pronounced. They accounted for
nearly 70 percent of the 9,573 students
at that level. SUS transfers, other transfers and native UCF students accounted
for 6 percent, 14 percent and 10 percent, respectively.
Grade-point-average data, meanwhile,
shows that the academic performance
of Florida community college transfers
who graduated from UCF compares favorably to the record compiled by graduates who started their college careers at
UCF. Among last spring's UCF graduates, community college transfers compiled an average UCF GPA of 2.887,
compared to 2.934 for those grads who
studied only at UCF. In about a third of
the major fields, the average GPA of
grads who transferred was higher than
for the graduates native to UCF.
Among community colleges, Valencia
was the leading feeder institution, accounting for 38 percent of UCF's undergraduate population who came from
community colleges. Brevard, Seminole
and Daytona Beach followed with percent shares of 21, 13 and 8, respectively.
Students offered
fee-free parking
with UCF tags
Beginning this fall, students with a license tag bearing the UCF emblem can
save themselves the $15 cost of a UCF
parking decal under a pilot program approved by the President's Advisory
Staff.
The special licenses with the school
logo were authorized by the Florida legislature with $25 of the license fee being
returned to the University for academic
enhancement. It is hoped that the savings on the parking fee will greatly increase the number of such tags bought
by students and will promote a display of
loyalty to UCF.
The idea of a pilot program was advanced by Denver Stutler, Student Government president, who worked out the
details with Vice Presidents Bob McGin-
nis and John Bolte, representing the
Foundation and the University's Division
of Administration and Finance.
The pilot program will be evaluated later in the fall semester.
Name change?
Yes! They've changed the name of our University again, but it will be
Shuster University only when these young actors from Disney/MGM
Studio are on campus to film the Superboy series for television half
hour shows beginning in October. Left to right, Stacy Haiduk, John
Haymes Newton and Jim Calvert, the college age version of players in
Superman.
UNIVERSITY
ESTATES
MARTIN
MARIETTA
UCF pledges
commitment
toNTSC
Dedication of the Naval Training Systems Center on Aug. 12 was occasion
for UCF President Trevor Colbourn to
put in words the relationship of the University and the Navy.
"The tie that binds us as securely as
the best knotted bowline is the interest
we share in the knowledge and technologies that define the simulation and
training field," he said.
The Institute of Simulation and Training, soon to be located in the Research
Pavilion, next door to NTSC, is UCF's
leading generator of research dollars,
more than $4 million last year, he said.
The College of Engineering, he continued, offers one of the nation's only master's programs in simulation systems
and the Psychology Department in the
College of Arts and Sciences, will offer a
PhD program in human factors psychology this fall.
"Already neighbors sharing a common
interest, UCF and NTSC are well on their
way to becoming partners in the exciting
task of enlarging the pooi of simulation
and training specialists, as well as solving the theoretical and actual problems
finite humans encounter when confronted by systems of seemingly infinite
complexity." he said.
(Dedication story Page 8)
Development
announced for
east of campus
After 20 years of isolation, the east
side of the UCF campus is about to open
to development. An Aug. 16 announcement promises start in 1989 of a 226-
acre upscale housing development
abutting the east property line of the
campus south of McCulloch Road.
Central Florida Research Park sold the
tract to a Jacksonville-based development firm headed by the former chairman of Arvida Disney Corporation and a
U.S. branch of an Australian company.
The development is to be known as
University Estates, the perimeter walled
to enclose seven villages of 379 homes
costing $125,000 to $500,000. Amenities promised include a lakeside tennis
and swim club with barbecue area,
boardwalk, fitness trail and children's
play park.
The plan calls for preserving about 50
acres of woods and creating 25 acres of
lakes, ponds and waterscape treatments.
Cobb Partners Development Inc. and
L. J. Hooker Homes, the U.S. home
building arm of Australian-based Hooker
Corporation Limited, have undertaken
this university-related development.
Cobb Partners was formed last year by
Charles E. Cobb Jr., former chairman
and chief executive officer of Arvida
Disney Corporation and current undersecretary for travel and tourism with the
U.S. Department of Commerce.
The map to the left shows the location of the proposed development.