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.