Category talk:University of Central Florida faculty

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Some recollections from the late 70s... Clearly don't directly belong in the Wiki, but may be of interest in adding some detail somewhere:

One person worthy of mention in the faculty is Dr. John Anderson. He was a math professor there in the late 70s and I believe became the Math dept chairman in the 80s. I am not sure of much more of his personal information than that. He was, however, one of the best teachers I've ever had, and possibly one of the most organized professors, too. When he came to class, he generally had full notes prepared ahead of time on what he wanted to deal with, and his notes also included workups on any problems he believed students were likely to ask about. If you've ever had a professor go through two blackboards of stuff, then suddenly drop back to halfway through the first blackboard and erase everything he'd done after that point, you'd appreciate Dr. Anderson's thorough prep work. He taught post-calculus applied math courses, mainly, to the best of my knowledge.

The CIS department scored a major coup in the late 70s when it got the "official" CIS doctoral program -- The florida SUS had a rule that doctoral programs were not to be duplicated across the SUS system (existing dupes were grandfathered in), and CIS was too new to have any other doctoral entry at that point. Ca. 1978 or so, the dept. chair succeeded in luring a retiring MIT(?) professor of some substantial note in CIS at the time to join the UCF faculty. Forget his name, started with "H", IIRC (Holman? Something like that). About three days before he was to start at UCF, he had a serious heart attack and died (again, iirc). Also of related note was the fact that UF pulled strings and managed to get its own official SUS CIS doctorate program despite the official policy. A lot of ire developed around that.