The prefixes of today's courses in some technical programs may not match what classes were offered years ago. Concern was expressed over GroupWise and privacy of e-mail. Many computers need to be upgraded to run other applications along with GroupWise. The proposal for Osceola to be joint-use facility for Valencia and UCF has been sent to Tallahassee to be included in capital outlay funds for 1999. The Valencia Retirement Club had its first meeting and 71 people attended.
Some recent practices have limited faculty to only once every three years.
A correction to previously reported statements about Winter Park faculty having a different workload from other campuses is not true. The Valencia Brain Bowl placed third in the Fall Invitational hosted on the West Campus while a Valencia student was the high scorer. Announcements David announced that the U.S. Dept. of Education wants to study the workload of higher education faculty. They propose to send out surveys to the homes of faculty. The Board suggested that the surveys be sent to the college and then the faculty member could return the surveys to the department.