The Office of Faculty Affairs
4000 Central Florida Boulevard
Millican Hall, Room 351
Orlando, FL 32816-0065
Telephone: 407-823-1113
Fax: 407-823-3028
Dr. Lin Huff-Corzine, Associate Vice Provost
e-mail: lcorzine@mail.ucf.edu
Dr. Lin Huff-Corzine is Professor of Sociology and Associate Vice Provost for the Academic Affairs Office of Faculty Affairs at University of Central Florida’s (UCF).
During Dr. Huff-Corzine’s tenure in Academic Affairs, she has led recent UCF initiatives in the certification of faculty teaching qualifications, faculty mentoring, conflict of interest and commitment, revision of faculty and administrator evaluation processes, and promotion and tenure procedural updates to name a few of her more recent accomplishments.
Dr. Huff-Corzine earned her Ph.D. in Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis with criminology, social psychology, gender, and complex organization as areas of emphasis. She also has a BA in Sociology and Women’s Studies from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Diploma in Nursing from Blessing Hospital in Quincy, Illinois.
Prior to her academic career, Dr. Huff-Corzine worked as a staff and charge nurse in surgical and psychiatric units, positions that led to a promotional opportunity to serve as Head Nurse of a 50-bed acute care psychiatric unit. The first nine years of her academic career, she spent at Kansas State University where she obtained tenure and promotion and led the specialty in Criminology within the Sociology Department enrollment growth from 27 to well over 300 majors. During those years, Dr. Huff-Corzine also joined the Ethnic Studies faculty and served on the Women’s Studies Governing Board, a group of three faculty who set policy for the major and reported directly to the Provost.
After serving in leadership capacities in professional associations, e.g., president, publications committee, and steering committee, Dr. Huff-Corzine moved into an Assistant Vice President position in the Academic Affairs Office of Faculty Relations at UCF. In that role, she was responsible for developing the documentation and budget for new undergraduate degree programs, as well as for presenting these programs to the Board of Trustees for approval. In addition, Dr. Huff-Corzine facilitated the program review process for all of units at the university, brought the outdated process into the then 20th century, and prepared all documentation required by the State. Finally, she was responsible for serving on the university team that negotiated the collective bargaining agreement (Florida’s faculty are unionized), handling faculty grievances as the President’s representative, and assisting units follow the collective bargaining agreement.
As time progressed, the duties of Faculty Relations expanded and changed. Thus, the office refocused and became the Academic Affairs Office of Faculty Affairs, with Dr. Huff-Corzine at the helm as an Associate Vice Provost. Faculty Affairs is responsible for developing, updating, and maintaining many of the faculty-related university level policies and procedures. In addition, she facilitates the university level faculty evaluation processes, e.g. promotion and tenure processes, annual evaluations, cumulative progress evaluations of tenure-earning faculty, sustained performance evaluations, deans’ fifth-year reviews, and student evaluation of faculty instruction.
Dr. Huff-Corzine served on the university assessment committee for several years and continues to be tasked with preparing the assessment plan for Academic Affairs. Related to assessment, as the Provost’s designee, she now approves all faculty teaching qualifications as required by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Beginning last year, Dr. Huff-Corzine’s office took over the duty of preparing and presenting all Academic Affairs’ deans, academic directors, chairs, and faculty workshops. Recently, she also became the university’s first Chief Ethics Officer, an internal title for the person responsible for reviewing all faculty conflict of interest and commitment reports; a process that is now completely online.
Dr. Huff-Corzine’s research focuses on homicide and related issues. Her work appears in a number of top academic journals such as Criminology, Social Forces, and Homicide Studies.
Barbara Davis, Executive Administrative Assistant
e-mail: bmdavis@mail.ucf.edu
Barbara has been at UCF since 2002. She is often someone's first point-of-contact with the Office of Faculty Affairs. She handles much of the incoming information to the office. If you have questions, she's a great place to start. Her love of people and willingness to help is a tremendous asset to our department. She is also responsible for helping faculty and A&P employees enroll in UCF's sick leave pool, a benefit to all UCF employees. Barbara was named "Employee of the Month" in November 2006.
Lucretia Cooney, Coordinatore-mail: lcooney@mail.ucf.edu
Lucretia joined Faculty Affairs in 2006 after working in the College of Engineering and Computer Science's Academic Support Services department for two years. She graduated in 2007 from UCF’s College of Business with a degree in Business Management. Currently, she is pursuing her master’s degree in Applied Sociology with a primary focus in Criminology. Her responsibilities include reviewing faculty teaching qualifications, assisting with RIA, SoTL, and TIP awards, sabbaticals, professional development leave, updating faculty degree data, conducting audits and maintaining the Faculty Affairs website. She is also involved in various projects both within the Office of Faculty Affairs and UCF. In her spare time she enjoys cooking and dining with friends.
Dr. David Kuhn, Professor EmeritusFaculty Development Officer
e-mail: dkuhn@mail.ucf.edu
Dr. David T. Kuhn, Professor Emeritus, received his Ph.D. degree in Zoology (Genetics) from Arizona State University in 1968. His teaching interests and research expertise are in the area of genetics. After serving as an Assistant Professor of Biology at Creighton University from 1968-1970, he joined the Department of Biology at the University of Central Florida (then Florida Technological University) in 1970, attaining the rank of Professor in 1979. In addition to his teaching and research, he functioned as Biology Graduate Coordinator from 1989-2000 and Chair of Biology from 2000-2005. Since retirement in 2005, David has taught honors genetics and continues with his genetic studies.
David joined the Office of Faculty Affairs in 2007 where he has assumed responsibility for developing workshops focusing on faculty mentoring and other faculty-related areas. He is also involved with other special projects in the office, including sustained faculty performance and non-unit faculty evaluation procedures. In his spare time he continues his work in fruit fly (Drosophila) developmental genetics.