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Box 25000 Orlando, Florida Orlando, Florida 32816 Permit No 3575 Address Correction Requested +UCF REPORT Volume 11, Number 22 For Faculty and Staff May 3,1989 Colbourn to address his last QT™$D!^ £5 Evident Hubbard to speak at 8, Millican at 2:30 President Trevor Colbourn will award The vice president of Student Govern degrees to 1,700 students and provide ment, Chris Toutikian, will have a plat one of the inspirational, parting speech form seat at the afternoon ceremony. es in commencement ceremonies Tues A graduating senior, Tim D. Shields, day, May 9. will be the vocalist, and another gradu Colbourn will step down on Aug. 7 from ating student, Randy Gillis, will be the the presidency he has held since 1978. minister at 8 a.m. J. Giles Hoglin will be The day's events in the UCF gymna the reader and Barton Weeks, '83, will sium will get underway at 8 a.m., when be the Alumni Council representative. degree candidates from the Colleges of Honorary degrees will be conferred at Education and Engineering will hear 11 a.m. on David Albertson, William S. Frank M. Hubbard, retired president and Jenkins and James C. Robinson. The chairman of Hubbard Construction Com Rev. Dr. Fred Schramm will be the mini pany, Orlando. ster; K. Philip Taylor the reader; Tracy CHARLES N. MILLICAN TREVOR COLBOURN Arts and Sciences degrees will be E. Ritter, '89, the vocalist and Mary awarded at the 11 a.m. ceremony at Scott, '70, the Alumni representative. which Colbourn will be the main speaker. Dr. Millican will receive an honorary He in turn will be followed at 2:30 p.m. by degree, as well as be the speaker at the Brennan to spend Dr. Charles N. Millican, UCF's first presi 2:30 ceremony. Special recognition will dent, who will address graduates of be accorded an outstanding UCF ath year in Philippines Business Administration, Health, and lete, Michelle Akers, soccer player and Like Gen. Douglas MacArthur, phys Undergraduate Studies. Liberal Studies graduate. ics professor Jack Brennan will return to At each ceremony there will be hono The Rev. Lloyd A. Larson will be the the Philippines. Brennan, who in 1982- rariums conferred and special recogni minister, Pamela S. Lewis the reader, 83 was a Fulbright lecturer in Mindanao, tions. Laura Pooser,'75, the alumni represen will leave June 9 for a second Fulbright At 8 a.m., the speaker, Frank Hub tative and Amy L. Reese, '92, the vocal year in the islands. bard, will receive an honorary degree ist. During his previous tour, Brennan and Harold L. Griffith will receive the Each of the gatherings will hear a conducted programs for high school and Professor Emeritus of Engineering brass ensemble prelude, directed by college physics teachers at nine univer Technology. Two teachers of the year, Roy Pickering. Andrew Walker will be sities. This time he will be headquar Susan Joyner of Orange County, and the organist. tered at the University of the Southeast Krista Phelps of Seminole, will have The College of Education will confer ern Philippines and the Ateneo de seats with the platform party. six doctorates and 13 specialist de Davao University. Richard G. Denning will be marshal for grees. The College of Engineering has A charter member of the UCF faculty, all services of the day; Rosie Joels, two candidates for doctorates. he has overseen physics programs lo chair of the Faculty Senate, will repre Following each ceremony there will be cally for precollege teachers since sent faculty at all three, while Fred a reception for participants and their 1970. Last year, he received the first FRANK M. HUBBARD Schmidt, president of Student Govern families on the west patio of the Educa Distinguished Service Award given by ment, will attend both morning sessions. tion Building. the Florida Section, American Associa tion of Physics Teachers. George Stevens College of Health reborn, to be acting dean better meets human needs at Business Admin The College of Health will be reborn on monary sciences and respiratory thera George E. Stevens, a professor of July 1, 1989 as a seven department Col py in a single administrative unit. Management at UCF since 1983, has lege of Health and Professional Studies. The College will be headquartered in been appointed acting dean of the Col The new college will include all of the Health and Physics Building, home lege of Business Administration for the Health's existing degree programs and of the present College of Health, once coming academic year. will gain.programs in social work, legal construction of a proposed research Stevens, 47, will begin his new duties studies, criminal justice, public adminis building allows the physics and civil and this August, replacing Clifford Eubanks, tration and hospitality management. environmental engineering programs to who has served as dean since 1975, The plan, the result of months of dis vacate. and who announced his plans to resign cussion and development, realigns the Dr. Leslie Ellis, currently interim earlier this year. current College of Health into the three dean, College of Health, will serve as in In remarks to the business faculty, departments of Nursing, Communicative terim dean of the new college through Provost Richard Astro noted "...we are Disorders and Health Sciences. the 1989-1990 academic year. fortunate to have the services of such a The current Department of Public Ad Provost Richard Astro said UCF is fine academic scholar and colleague" in ministration, now located in the College "establishing a professional school the position. of Arts & Sciences, will be divided into whose overall mission is to serve the Stevens, who was 1989 Researcher of two departments, public administration health, human, and public service the Year for his College, is known for his and legal studies/ criminal justice. needs of the people of Central Florida as prodigious output of writings on an array The Department of Social Work moves well as the interests of the area's burge of subjects. He has published six books unchanged from A&S; Hospitality Man oning hospitality industry whose suc and 60 articles, plus more than 100 pro agement moves from the College of cess is vital to the region's economic fessional papers. Business Administration. welfare." His primary areas of interest are hu Under the plan, a Department of College programs, Astro noted, "will man resources management, personnel Health Sciences will consolidate pro be 'people programs', designed to ad training and development, and business grams in medical records, medical tech dress many of the problems which result ethics. nology, radiologic science, cardiopul from urbanization and rapid economic His doctorate was awarded in 1979 by GEORGE E. STEVENS and technological advancement." Kent State University. Construction plans 1989-1992 put a new face on the UCF map. See Page 5 Page 2 The UCF Report, Wednesday, May 3,1989 Grant Publication of these memoranda and announcements about University Opportunities Official Memoranda policy and procedure constitutes official notice to faculty and staff To: All Teaching Faculty, Deans & Chairs To: All Faculty and Staff "SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RE From: Kathleen Connolly SEARCH" (NSF)- NSF invites science- From: Lisa Pearman, Assistant Lab Manager Deputy Registrar based and high-technology small busi Computer Services Department ness firms to submit research proposals Subject: Notification of Grade Collection Rolls Subject: PC/Mainframe Short Course under the SBIR program. A small busi ness is defined as having less than 500 Grades for all on-campus, Area Campus and Continuing Introductory courses on the use of IBM PC and the IBM employees. If you have worked with or Education students for Spring 1989 are due in the Registrar's Mainframe will be given May 17 through May 24. know any small business firm (possibly Office no later than 5 p.m. on Monday, May 8. In order to Any student who will be using the IBM Mainframe or the in our Research Park) that would be in meet this deadline, it is requested that grade report sheets IBM PC (and the Novell Local Area Network) for the first time should take a short course. terested, please contact DSR. Objec be returned for individual sections as soon as you have en tives of the three-phased SBIR Pro tered the grades so these reports may be checked for com The signup books are in Computer Center II, Rooms 106- gram, in addition to supporting high pleteness before they are forwarded to our office for pro 108. quality research, include stimulating cessing. Please have the grade sheets hand-delivered to Courses last about an hour, are limited to 15 students, and technological innovation in the private your Dean's Office (except for the College of Arts and Sci will be heid at various times throughout the day in CCII, Room 111. Courses will be held Wednesday, May 17-Friday, May sector, increasing the commercial appli ences, who submit grade roils to their department).