The UCF Report, Vol. 11 No. 13, January 11, 1989

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+UCF REPORT
Volume 11, Number 13
For Faculty and Staff
January 11,1989
Prexy search gears up for work
Locked Out - Bat hangs out because
it is locked out by devices installed by
bat removal experts over holidays.
Bats "excluded"
from entering
Ed. Bldg. roosts
Night-flying Mexican free-tailed bats
that have called the Education Building
home during the day have been locked
out of their roosts by a pair of Wisconsin bat removal experts who used more
than 200 tubes of caulking compound
over the holiday period to secure the
building against the flying mammals.
Marshall Hanks and Will Bright, who
together have handled some 700 bat removal jobs throughout the United
States, said they guaranteed that the
building would not be recolonized by
bats for four years and that the building
would be totally free of bats once stragglers found their way to the seven bat
"excluders" that remain in the areas
where roosting was most concentrated.
The bats roosted in the narrow space
between the building's outside brick
facing and interior block wall.
In a debriefing meeting with administrators and environmental health and
safety personnel on January 3, Hanks
flatly declared that bats would not be
able to re-enter the facility once they
have left. A relatively small, but undetermined, number of bats have remained in the building, he said. He said
he hoped the remaining bats will find
their way out of the building via the excluders that will remain in place until
April. Some, he said, could be expected
to work their way into the building if they
are unsuccessful in locating the excluders.
Hanks and Bright said that largest
amount of caulking was along the roof-
line, where stretches of separations allowed the bats to enter the space between the outer and interior walls. The
pair also identified seven major roosting
areas, four more than anticipated. They
removed bricks from those areas and ■ •
deodorized, sanitized and encased the
guano with a sealant.
The excluders - cones of wire with a
wider hole at the base than at the tip -
remain in those areas. They allow bats
to leave to feed, but, because of their
shape, do not allow them to re-enter.
Hanks and Bright also surveyed other
UCF buildings to determine vulnerability
to bat infestation. They gave all buildings a clean bill of health, except the
admininistration building, the library and
the health and physics buildings. Those
facilities, they said, showed potential
for being colonized by large numbers of
bats. UCF officials plan to take steps to
secure those facilities against the creatures.
The 33-member Search Advisory Committee will reconvene around February
20 to begin reviewing candidates for the
UCF presidency in a process Chancellor
Charles Reed says yields the most vital
decisions.made in the State University
System.
"Nqthing we do is more important than
locating, recruiting and selecting the
best possible individuals for leadership
positions in the State University System," Reed told community and University committee members at a pre-
Christmas organizational meeting. Reed
urged members to take an active role in
building a representative pool of candidates by nominating qualified persons
and listed the qualities he thought a
successful candidate should possess.
In reviewing criteria he thought essential, Reed said that the best candidates should have a vision for UCF and
the ability to articulate that vision. In
addition, he said, the final selection
should have a scholarly record of
achievement, show capability for managing a large organization and leading
faculty, students and staff, while working effectively in the political arena and
with the business community. The President, he said further, should be
"someone who knows how to ask for
and raise money," should be capable of
becoming a state leader, as well as
skilled in recruiting outstanding faculty
and working cooperatively with the
Chancellor and Regents.
Open house slated
for faculty members
in library tomorrow
Everything you ever wanted to know
about the UCF Library will be available
for the asking this Thursday (Jan. 12) at
an innovative open house for faculty to
introduce tried and true and new ways of
uncovering information.
The 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. event has been
designed with the user in mind, said Library Director Anne Marie Allison. Staffers in a range of systems and services
will be on hand to provide their expertise.
Those unfamiliar with the library's online catalog, better known as LIUS
(Library Users Information System) will
be properly introduced. For those who
have used it, there will be "tricks of the
trade" that include access to other SUS
libraries, Allison said.
Added soon to the host of user-
friendly services on hand, such as Mar-
cive. a CD-ROM index to U.S. government publications, and Compact Disclosure, a database on publicly-held companies, will be ERIC(Educational Resources Information Center) in CD-ROM
format, frequently used by those interested in discipline-related research on
teaching or learning theory.
Before the year is out, Allison added,
the library will become a U.S. Patent De-
spository. Workshops on use of the new
Patents collection are planned for early
in the 89-90 academic year.
The Open House also affords faculty
an opportunity to meet liaison librarians
and other faculty members who serve
on the university-wide Library Advisory
Committee.
Past searches have been sidetracked over the issue of whether candidates must possess a Ph.D. degree in
order to be advanced, Reed noted. He
said a Ph.D. is preferable, but not an
end in itself. "We don't want to exclude
anyone," he observed, noting nonetheless that all of the presidents appointed
during his tenure as chancellor have
^had earned Ph.D,§.   .    . , ..,  .
The schedule calls for national ads for
the UCF post to end on January 31, after
which Reed will advance about 30 candidates out of a pool that could number
above 200. Those 30 or so candidates
will be reviewed by the Search Advisory
Committee next month. Within a few
days of that review, the BOR Selection
Committee, chaired by Chairman Joan
Ruffier, is to meet to identify about 10
candidates for initital interviews. The
committee will rely heavily on the input of
the Search Advisory Committee.
(See inside for current list of applicants
and nominees.)
Reed and Ruffier both stressed the advisability of offering positive recommendations throughout the process on candidates individuals prefer, instead of
negative comments on candidates they
find wanting. "We are advancing candidates, not eliminating people," Reed emphasized.
"The strength of the president we ulli- T
mately select," Ruffier said at the organizational meeting, "will depend on the
consensus that develops within the committees. We're all in this together. No one
committee is more important than the
other. We have to work closely together
to pull this thing off."
Tentative plans have the 10 candidates being interviewed on the UCF campus in late February and early March by
the Search Advisory Committee in videotaped sessions. At the end of the first
week in March, the Search Advisory
Committee is to meet jointly with the BOR
Selection Committee to report on the interviews. The BOR Selection Committee
then will invite about five candidates to
visit UCF and Orlando for two days of intensive interviews and receptions hosted by the Search Advisory Committee.
Anyone in attendance at the series of
constituent-based meetings and receptions are invited to submit written evaluations of the candidates to the BOR Selection Committee.
While the candidates are on campus
during a two-week period in March,
Reed and Vice Chancellor Roy McTar-
naghan are to visit with their associates and colleagues in their home
communities, collecting information
there.
Over a two-day period in late March,
the BOR Selection Committee is to interview the candidates in Orlando. On
March 31, according to the tentative
schedule, the Committee will meet to
evaluate candidates, consider the recommendation of the Chancellor and
recommend a candidate to the full
Board for appointment. The Board is to
meet by telephone conference call to
appoint UCF's new president.
The schedule is the tightest that
could be arranged, in part to minimize
the time sitting presidents would have
to wait before decisions are made on
their candidacies.
David Scott, chair of the Presidential
Search Advisory Committee, said three
files will be maintained for public inspection at the reserve desk of the
UCF Library. The first will contain the
minutes of each committee meeting;
the second will be a summary log of applicants and nominations; the third will
contain the credentials and correspondence for each applicant. The latter two
files will be updated weekly throughout
the search process.
Scott stressed that input from all involved constituencies is crucial to a
successful search. Scott welcomes
written comments about the attributes
of the applicants.
The super-size check denotes the latest contribution to UCF from the Orlando
Area Chapter, Florida Public Relations Association.which since 1978 has
turned over more than $200,000 from its annual Roast & Toast honoring well-
known area figures. On hand for the official presentation of the 1988 check
are (from left): Roast co-chairman Bill Legg, OAC president Lori Booker, roas-
tee Buell G. Duncan Jr., Sun Bank chairman, CEO and president, co-chair
Joan Ballard, and UCF President Trevor Colbourn. (Photo by Cindy Sapp).