Memorandum for the Record

Subject:  Minutes of the Meeting of the Graduate Admissions and
Financial Support Committee

1.  The following members were present at the meeting held in Room 161
Love Building, 2 April 2002. : Dr. Burmester, Dr. Yuan, Dr. Liu, Dr.
Srinivasan, and Mr. Gaitros.

2.  The following procedures are followed throughout the academic year:

    a.  As graduate admission packages are completed, the graduate
admission assistance enter the status of the package in the admissions
database and pass the package to Mr. Gaitros. Mr. Gaitros reviews each
package to ensure the student has a complete set of documents, the
documents are accurate, and that each student meets minimum
qualifications as set by the university, the department, and the
committee.  If any package falls below minimum qualifications, the
package is denied, the reason is annotated on the folder and returned to
the graduate assistants for processing.

    b.  Graduate packages are then past to Dr. Burmester who then
reviews each package and makes further cuts based upon the GRE and TOEFL
test scores, recommendation letters, qualifty of the school attended by
the student, level of course work, and grades.  Students who are
determined to fall below the quality of student the department is
seeking are denied admission, the folder is annotated and returned to
the graduate assistants for processing.

    c.  The remaining folders are circulated through the remaining
committee members for review and comments.  Each member reviews the
folder and makes comments based upon the GRE and TOEFL test scores,
recommendation letters, qualifty of the school attended by the student,
level of course work, and grades.  In addition, each faculty member uses
their knowledge and expertise about the quality of the student's schools
in determining the quality of the student.  Research potential is noted
on each folder.   If a student receives a deny recommendation from all
the committee members the folder is annotated as such and returned to
the graduate assistants for processing.  Students with potential as
Graduate Assistants are held until the admission deadline is passed.
Students who are deemed admittable but do not require assistantships are
admitted and their folders returned to the graduate assistants for
processing.  Students who are deemed admittable and request
assistantships ( but not require them ) are admitted without an
assistantship.

3. On April 3, 2002, the admission committee met and reviewed all
remaing folders.  Graduate student candidates who are US citizens or
permenant residents and Florida residents who met the departments
minimum qualifications were given a higher priority this year because of
the lack of Tuition Waiver funds available for the Department of
Computer Science and because of the high percentage of Foreign National
students in the department.  The following US students are being given
admission as Teaching Assistants on a provisional basis because of their
residency status and their ability to perform critical teaching duties
for the department's service courses: William Archer, Candace Batts,
Domari Dickerson, Todd Holloway, Darren Holtz, Marc Kruza, Mellisa
Kryder, Jason McDonald, Mark Thomas, Chris Waring, Janel Cahill,
Bradford Hinson.  Students who met minimum qualifications and had
obtained funding either within or external to the department were also
admitted.

Of the remaining students, a certain level of priority was given to
those candidates who had applied to the Departments PhD program who had
high academic qualifications from good schools, high test scores, and
who showed research potential.The candidates were ranked ordered as
follows:

    1. Jia  Xu
    2. Guangyu Dong
    3. Yang Zhang
    4. Yong Wei
    5. Boxuan Xu
    6. Zhenyu Lu
    7.  Jiadong Long
    8. Wen Ju
    9. Xun Luo
    10. Lin Shi
    11. Yiwang Cai
    12. Daniel Malaxa
    13. Jian Liang
    14 Xu Han
    15. Xin Lu

Initial offers of graduate assistantships will be made to the top 12
candidates. Should any decline in either catagory, the other cadidates
will be made offers.  Should the committee run out of candidates, the
remaining folders will be reviewed for the next best students.