University of Central Florida STARS The UCF Report University Archives 1-7-2000 The UCF Report, Vol. 22 No. 12, January 7, 2000 University of Central Florida Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/ucfreport University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in The UCF Report by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation University of Central Florida, "The UCF Report, Vol. 22 No. 12, January 7, 2000" (2000). The UCF Report. 605. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/ucfreport/605 M l!i f I j mm mm:mm 1 M Volume 22 • No. 12 • Jan. 7,2000 3 construction projects near completion This spring, work will wrap up high-tech capabilities, more eateries and services, Furniture will arrive in February or March. and a new baseball stadium. After that, occupants, which include members of on the Classroom Building, The 86,891-gross-square-foot Classroom I will the Office of Instructional Resources and the be nearing completion the first of the year with a Hospitality Management program, will be moved Student Union expansion and planned opening for the summer semester. in. Jay Bergman Baseball Field "We still have our own work to do installing our The three-story building has 25 classrooms — technology and getting the building equipped," two with auditorium-style seating for more than he millennium is starting with three major says Tom Woodruff, UCF architect. "The wiring is 200 students — and a student multimedia lab, two Tconstruction projects coming to completion done by the contractor, but we do the rest. Then, faculty multimedia labs, a faculty multimedia on the UCF campus, giving the university we'll need a shakedown period to see if all the desperately needed classroom space along with systems and equipment are working." Please see CONSTRUCTION, page 2 Spring 2000 Tears of joy enrollment record high 30,000 students — the most ever in spring — are expected to attend UCF this term he trend of growing enrollment T continues this spring with an expected 4 percent increase over a year ago. "Spring is tough to estimate, but [there will be] anywhere between a 3 and 5 percent increase. At this time, registration is running about 7 per­ cent higher than last year," says Sabrina Andrews, interim director for Institutional Research and Support. Currently, more than 25,000 stu­ dents are enrolled for the spring sem­ ester with a total of 30,000 expected to Jacque Brund attend. Last year's enrollment was An unidentified graduate wipes tears from her face during the commencement ceremony Please see SPRING, page 3 for the College of Health and Public Affairs on Dec. 18. Nearly 2,400 students graduated. Partnership II Building on drawing board The building will be the sister of Regents' recommendation that the Legislature Research Pavilion. The $9.1 Partnership I building allocate $15 million to build the Partnership II will house UCF's National Center for Forensic facility to Partnership I and building in Research Park. Science, the UCF Criminal Justice Department's The university will share the building with the Crime Mapping and Data Management and Public house units from UCF and all Navy, Army, Air Force and Marine Corps. Land for Safety Research centers. Components of the Naval four branches of the military Partnership II, as well as its sister facility, Partner­ Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division will ship I, is being provided by the Navy. occupy 15,000 square feet of the 45,000-square-foot CF's commitment to area economic develop­ The green light for Partnership II comes before building. ment and its ties to all branches of the U.S. ground is broken on March 3 for Partnership I, umilitar y have been strengthened by the Board which will be located on 2.3 acres adjacent to the Please see PARTNERSHIP II, page 2 Next issue of The UCF Report is Jan. 21 • Deadline is noon, Jan. 12 University of Central Florida Non-Profit Organization P.O. Box 160090 U.S. Postage Paid Orlando, FL 32816-0090 Orlando, FL Address Service Requested Permit No. 3575 New century full of promise for UCF Welcome to the new millenni­ um, gang. Here's hoping the next 1,000 years for UCF are as sweet as our last 37. Technically, of course, the next millennium is still 12 months away. But that's beside the point. The fact is, it's practically impossible not to embrace the year 2000 as the thre­ shold to a marvelous, wondrous future. We've already gotten a peek at what's in-store for UCF. More Jacque Brund students. More construction. More Workers put decorative trim on the outside of the Classroom Building during the university's partnerships. More cutting-edge holiday break. The Classroom Building is one of several construction projects expected to research. More aca­ be completed this spring. demic prestige. More From success in athletics. CONSTRUCTION, continued from page 1 the Unbelievably, preparation lab, two video conference of work still to be done." ings installed by summer. "We'll have ivory 30,000 students are rooms, several student study /dock­ A building of about 25,000 square orientation here in the summer and tower expected to enroll in ing stations and two large office feet will run parallel to the stadium occasional things going on, but it classes this spring — suites. There is also a suite of offices and include offices for coaches, locker won't be fully operational until the imagine that, 30,000. and an office center for faculty. The rooms, weight training and equip­ fall term," he says. The university had been offering ground floor has a covered terrace ment rooms. One end of the building The addition, which will bring the classes for 16 years before we even with seating. will be for women's track and soccer size of the building to 175,000 gross reached 25,000 total graduates. As Jay Bergman Baseball Field should with smaller, but similar facilities. square feet, includes an 11,500- quickly as UCF is growing, we'll be be ready for the first game of the sea­ There will also be an area for batting square-foot ballroom, with room for graduating 25,000 students every ^ son on Feb. 11, but the buildings and cages. 1,000 people, that can be sectioned two or three years very soon. For other features may not be completed Also on the slate for completion is into nine individual meeting rooms. us to have reached the 30,000- at that time. The 900-seat stadium will the expansion of the Student Union. Three restaurants — Steak Escape, enrollment number for a spring include a state-of-the-art electronic The additional 40,000 gross square Nectars, and Mrs. Fields and term in our university's short his­ scoreboard donated by Coca-Cola. feet will be completed in March or PretzelTime — and College Optical, tory is mind-boggling. It seems just "The field will be available for April. with an optometrist on staff, will also a matter of time before our enroll­ most of the season," says UCF archi­ Mark Hall, director for the Student be added. ment surpasses Florida State's and tect Dick Lavender, "but there's a lot Union, expects to have the furnish­ — Joanne Griggs South Florida's. You can't help but wonder if someday UCF will be­ come the largest university in the PARTNERSHIP II, state, exceeding even the Univer­ continued from page 1 sity of Florida in size. To teach all those students, Partnership II, as proposed, will there's a campus building boom be located near Partnership I. Part­ with no end in sight. The Board of ners in the second facility will foc­ Regents has already recommended us on advanced distributed learn­ $191.4 million be approved by the ing and simulation technology. Florida Legislature for UCF con­ "It will be a simulation immer­ struction projects over the next five sion facility that is UCF's, where years. To appreciate what that UCF and its partners will be able to means, consider this: As of last fall, demonstrate capabilities, expertise the university had spent a total of and research through simulation to $159.4 million on physical facilities. address and solve real-world prob­ Granted, it would cost a whole lot lems," says Marilyn Cobb Croach, more to build some of those build­ UCF's director for Federal Relat­ ings in today's economy. Nonethe­ ions. "The distance learning com­ less, the number of buildings on ponent will help link this expertise campus will swell considerably to potential future partners early in the 21st century. throughout the world." When President John Hitt ar­ The Partnership complex was rived at UCF in 1992, he listed one born after yearlong negotiations of his top goals for UCF to become with Congress, Pentagon and Navy the nation's leading partnership officials. Orlando is the only locat­ university Guess what? We're well ion in the world that is home to the on our way to doing just that. The simulation and training offices of Florida High Tech Corridor is a all four branches of the U.S. mili­ perfect example of the president's tary, Croach points out. vision. "We can capitalize on a critical Jacque Brund So what's in-store for UCF in mass of simulation technologies, Where's the crowd? the new millennium? Perhaps the knowledge and expertise, using a university's founders said it best partnership approach for applicat­ Empty benches frame a passer-by near the UCF Theatre when they created our motto: ions in the public and private sec­ during the university's winter break.