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A Study Of Merit Pay Factors As Perceived By Members Of The Florida Teaching Profession-National Education Association, Susan Crowe Burns

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

This study was designed to discover which merit pay evaluation and implementation factors were considered important by members of the Florida Teaching Profession - National Education Association (FTP-NEA). Comparisons were made of opinions within various subgroups (district size, position within organization, sex, race, age, years teaching, highest degree earned, assignment, secondary assignment).

The sample included the State Board of Directors, the Board of Directors of the United Faculty of Florida CUFF-university personnel), and FTP-NEA members in two-thirds of the local affiliates. All districts with support personnel groups were included. The questionnaire was comprised of merit pay factors which were cited …

Effects Of Nonfluencies On Speaker Credibility, Erika Engstrom

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

College Of Education Annual Report And Summary Of Research And Creative Activities, July 1, 1985 - June 30, 1986, University Of Central Florida. College Of Education

Research Activities & Annual Reports

University of Central Florida College of Education annual report and summary of research and creative activities, July 1, 1985 - June 30, 1986. Covers annual reports, grants and contracts, publications, creative works, and services.

University Of Central Florida Libraries, Annual Report 1985-1986, Ucf Libraries

Libraries' Documents

No abstract provided.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 18 No. 15, December 4, 1985

Central Florida Future

Rush parties to be 'dampened;' Your paper is growing with UCF; Quadrangle bringing more business, traffic to UCF area (with diagram titled "New development at the Quadrangle"); News: The dash is on for finals week; Research Park growth better than expected, officials say; It's absolutely, positively official: Kiosk is open (with photo of ribbon cutting); News clips: Lost and Found; From all over; More free money; Ark Expert; Few opt for study abroad; Opinion: Criticism of athletic program insures quality in the future; Dolphins fans have something to growl about; Answering the false promise of communism; Sports: Knights down to …

Measuring The Effectiveness Of Tourism Sales Promotions, Dick Pope Sr. Institute For Tourism Studies

Dick Pope Sr. Institute Publications

The purpose of the following project was to investigate and propose methods that can be implemented to measure the effectiveness of the following tourism sales promotion programs that are widely used by the Florida Division of Tourism and other Florida tourism operators: - Trade shows - Consumer shows - Sales blitzes - Familiarization trips - Educational seminars For this purpose a study consisting of the following four phases was undertaken: 1. A survey of the methods currently used by other states. 2. A survey of the methods currently used by other industries. 3. An analysis of the methods used by …

Sandspur, Vol 92 No 12, November 26, 1985, Rollins College

The Rollins Sandspur

Rollins College student newspaper, written by the students and published at Rollins College. The Sandspur started as a literary journal.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 18 No. 13, November 20, 1985

Central Florida Future

Less bucks mean fewer courses (with picture of Manyears); Students can hear but can't understand; NEA: not enough education majors (with diagram of Average teacher salaries in the Southeast); News: New smoking law-'no problem here'; Study program helps students make grades while having fun; News clips: Hunger relief; Honor induction; Race volunteers; African Art; Army activity; Fond farewell; Judaic studies program for entire community (with photo of Dr. Moshe Pelli); Discoveries: Laser shows set music to light (with photo of Epcot Center's LaserPhonic Fantasy); Opinion: Understanding can put the wheels of peace in motion; Responses come from a need for …

The Ucf Report, Vol. 08 No. 17, November 13, 1985, University Of Central Florida

The UCF Report

As President Colbourn sees it: Improvements depend on private funding; Mission possible: Building UCF into nations's leading regional school; Road closed for paving.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 18 No. 11, November 6, 1985

Central Florida Future

Library's books don't stack up: Lack of funding hinders services (with charts on "Where the books are" and "Spending on students"); Female professors get shortchanged (with photo of Dean Rollins); News: Complex for fine arts awaiting state approval; Greek gathering (photo captioned "Members of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority gather around to watch the dedication of their new house--the first in UCF's Greek Park."); State lawmakers want to do away with 'turkeys'; Students voice complaints, ideas to senate; Test Debate; ROTC Review; Greek Notes; Fun & Games? (photo captioned "Sometimes the intensity of intramural football gets to be a little too …

The Ucf Report, Vol. 08 No. 14, October 23, 1985, University Of Central Florida

The UCF Report

UCF develops low-cost oculomotor: Eye-activated computers provide opportunities for quadriplegics; Salvadoran policy subject of award winning journalist; UCF nears record United Way goal.

Sandspur, Vol 92, No 06, October 15, 1985, Rollins College

The Rollins Sandspur

Rollins College student newspaper, written by the students and published at Rollins College. The Sandspur started as a literary journal.

Approaches To The Basic Curriculum In Small College Departments, Roger Smitter, Joseph W. Macdoniels

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article examines required course structures in small college speech communication programs in order to determine whether curricular patterns reveal shared organizing principles for the major. Drawing on catalog data from sixty one institutions that are either small in enrollment or limited in speech communication faculty, the analysis categorizes required courses and identifies their frequency across programs. The findings demonstrate substantial variability in required curricula, with little consistency in course titles, sequences, or theoretical foundations. Public speaking emerges as the most common requirement, yet it is mandated at fewer than half of the institutions studied. Introductory courses vary widely in …

Anatomy Of A Self-Study, Jane Kennedy Dale

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article provides a detailed account of the self study conducted by the Department of Communications, Speech and Theatre at Fairleigh Dickinson University, situating the process within university wide mandates for program evaluation. It outlines the administrative origins of the initiative, beginning with Senate guidelines that emphasized collegiality and established a strict timetable for departmental review, consultant selection, and report submission. The narrative documents the extensive data gathering required for the study, including faculty vitae, course syllabi, curricular rationales, library assessments, enrollment trends, facilities reports, and analyses of departmental programs such as internships, media operations, and theatre activities. It also …

Directing The Combined Speech And Composition Course: A Practical Perspective, Raylene Tapia

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article examines the administrative and pedagogical challenges of directing a combined basic speech and composition course, emphasizing the structural and interpersonal obstacles that shape program coordination. It argues that successful collaboration between speech and composition instructors depends heavily on institutional organization. Programs housed within the same division or school benefit from clearer lines of authority, shared goals, and greater ease in establishing common objectives. By contrast, when instructors are drawn from multiple departments or schools, coordination becomes more difficult, particularly when the course director lacks formal authority over participating faculty. The article also stresses the importance of voluntary participation, …

Empirical Needles In Curricular Haystacks: Finding Research Opportunities In A Small College Program, David Droge

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article examines the structural and cultural conditions that limit research activity in small college communication programs and outlines strategies for generating empirical research opportunities within such environments. It identifies heavy teaching loads, extensive service commitments, limited institutional support, and the dominance of introductory oral communication courses as primary barriers to sustained scholarly engagement. These constraints reduce time for research, inhibit collaboration with disciplinary peers, and restrict access to adequate computing and funding resources. In response, the article describes four strategies developed to integrate research into routine academic responsibilities. The first involves embedding empirical projects within existing seminars and creating …

Speech Communication Departments And The College Of Character, Roger Smitter

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This essay examines the role of speech communication programs within undergraduate liberal arts institutions and argues that their long term vitality depends on articulating a clear connection between communication study and the distinctive character of each college. The discussion responds to broader critiques of undergraduate education that identify fragmentation, excessive professionalism, and a diminished sense of intellectual coherence as threats to the liberal arts. The essay outlines several guiding questions for departments seeking to define or strengthen their educational mission. These include clarifying why communication belongs in the liberal arts, identifying principles that organize a coherent curriculum, and determining how …

The Small College As A Career Option: Teaching At A Small College, Ellen Hay

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This essay reports findings from a survey of small college communication programs and examines the professional conditions experienced by faculty in these institutions. Drawing on responses from nearly half of the departments surveyed, the analysis identifies typical institutional characteristics, including small enrollments, limited departmental staffing, and heavy teaching responsibilities that require faculty to manage multiple course preparations. The essay documents the breadth of communication curricula, noting the ubiquity of the basic course and the variable presence of offerings in interpretation, media production, public speaking, interpersonal communication, and organizational communication. It also reports the extensive non teaching obligations that shape faculty …

Achieving Success In Small Colleges, Richard W. Platt

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This essay examines the conditions that shape professional advancement in small colleges and outlines strategies for achieving mobility within institutions facing demographic decline, financial constraint, and limited faculty turnover. It begins by noting that reduced student populations, diminished public support for higher education, and high proportions of tenured senior faculty restrict opportunities for hiring, promotion, and movement across institutions. Against this backdrop, the essay argues that new faculty must plan deliberately for professional success by understanding institutional identity, priorities, and expectations. Drawing on a model of organizational assessment, it emphasizes the importance of analyzing mission statements, governance structures, departmental practices, …

External Evaluation Of Small College Communication Programs, Richard W. Platt

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article analyzes the role of external consultants in the evaluation and development of communication programs in small colleges, using Marist College as a detailed case study. It outlines the institutional context of the late 1970s and early 1980s, including demographic pressures, financial constraints, and the emergence of federal grant programs that encouraged systematic self study. The discussion traces how internal assessments, leadership restructuring, and Title III grants created conditions for program wide review involving external consultants with complementary expertise in communication theory, administration, and professional practice. The article describes the consultant selection process, preparation procedures, visit logistics, and subsequent …

Thinking Out Loud: Teaching The Other Half Of The Communication Course, Richard M. Goldstein, Charles W. Nelson

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article documents an instructional experiment designed to integrate foundational oral communication skills into a required first year composition sequence at Michigan Technological University. The initiative emerged from institutional constraints that prevented speech courses from counting toward graduation and from growing recognition that technological students need competence in oral communication as well as writing. The article details the collaborative planning between an English instructor and a speech teacher who sought to embed oral communication concepts within the third quarter of the composition curriculum, using a media centered unit as the organizing structure. The analysis describes the Dorm English program as …

The Ucf Report, Vol. 08 No. 10, September 25, 1985, University Of Central Florida

The UCF Report

TDAC tags $7 million for UCF; Days of fun planned for Homecoming; United Way sets target at $19,500 Knight gridders try Illinois State; Flu Shots; DBCC/UCF groundbreaking starts an 'exciting future.'

The Ucf Report, Vol. 08 No. 09, September 18, 1985, University Of Central Florida

The UCF Report

Leaders point way from good to great; Reed urges faculty to excellence; New building started today at DBCC/UCF; UCF needs lift from private $$; Engineers find Phillips safe to use; Creative School charges bring changes in policy; Private investors eye student dorms.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 18 No. 03, September 11, 1985

Central Florida Future

Knights to take off to perfect start: 1-0 (with photo); SG looking to see good fight in senate elections; News: Westheimer blasts myths about sex; Campus Cop (photo); FEEDS has solution for working grads; Instructors at UCF find textbook writing brings promotion (with photos of Dr. N. Gary Holton and Dr. Fred Fedler); News clips: Lost and Found; Enrollment Drops; Minority Science Fellowship; Loan Interest Increase; NCAA Lowers Standards; Discoveries: Can we build a city in space? (with picture captioned "A home in space" with a diagram of a possible space home); Opinion: UCF's best won; Alafaya problems getting ridiculous; …

Sandspur, Vol 92 No 02, September 11, 1985, Rollins College

The Rollins Sandspur

Rollins College student newspaper, written by the students and published at Rollins College. The Sandspur started as a literary journal.

The Ucf Report, Vol. 08 No. 07, September 4, 1985, University Of Central Florida

The UCF Report

President Colbourn invites all employees: Help plot the University's future course; Career Service Wins 16 to 2; Promotion and tenure - See insert.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 18 No. 01, August 28, 1985

Central Florida Future

Growth brings progress, woes: Phase one of CEBA opens its doors to UCF; Growth troubles parking (with photo); SG president: student union ahead?; News: Chemistry instructor, students settle test fraud; Alafaya Trail gets needed signals (with photo); Health Center offers help; Authority cracking down on riders; Health Matters: Langdon: emphasis on prevention; Discoveries: Hurricanes: the destructive heat engine; The birth of a Hurricane (with photo); 'Discoveries' is what is happening in and to UCF; Opinion: Blind acceptance of enigma keeping UCF down; New year brings hope for good year with help; What was that cluttering the campus Monday?; Fall semester …

Knott's Berry Farm: Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow A Consideration, Jack Ryan, Halcyon Ltd.

Harrison "Buzz" Price Papers

Terry E. Van Gorder commissioned Jack Ryan to write a "white paper" on Knott's Berry Farm in which the following issues were addressed: what was Knott's Berry Farm?, what is Knott's Berry Farm?, what could Knott's Berry Farm be?, what should Knott's Berry Farm be?, and address issues such as the public's perception of Knott's Berry Farm and Knott's Berry Farm's current communications to the public. The white paper includes the following sections: Introduction, What Knott's was..., What Knott's is..., What Knott's could be..., What Knott's should be..., Knott's and public relations..., And in conclusion..., Appendix I. Demographic projections, and …

Megatrends In Speech Communication: Theory And Research, Stephen W. Littlejohn

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article identifies broad shifts that the author terms megatrends in the development of speech communication theory and research. These megatrends refer to large scale movements that encompass smaller, related changes across the field. The essay outlines five such trends. The first is an intensified role for speech communication in bridging divisions among subfields, particularly the separation between interpersonal and mass communication that has emerged in the wider interdisciplinary study of communication. The second is a growing concern with policy implications, reflected in increased attention to social issues, applied research, and the needs of special populations. The third trend is …

A Matter Of Choice, Frank E. X. Dance

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This essay advances a theoretical argument linking liberal education to the human capacity for symbolic choice. It begins by contrasting the restrictive condition of slavery with the freedom made possible through intentional decision making, framing liberal education as a process that fosters autonomy rather than vocational preparation. The discussion traces the historical emergence of symbolic capacity as the defining feature of human communication, distinguishing symbols from signs and emphasizing the role of spoken language in enabling decentering from immediate circumstance. Through this process, individuals develop self awareness, the ability to conceptualize alternatives, and the capacity for deliberate choice. The essay …