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Scott PowersMarch 9, 2018

Saying that University of Central Florida Provost Dale Whittaker not only represents keeping the school on its trajectory but also is the best candidate, the school’s board of trustees unanimously voted Friday to nominate him as the next UCF president. Whittaker, provost and executive vice president at UCF for the past three and a half […]

Scott PowersMarch 5, 2018

University of Central Florida Provost and Executive Vice President Dale Whittaker gets his turn in the hot seat Tuesday morning in the university’s search for its next president, set to be concluded Friday. Whittaker, who has been with UCF for four years, joins three other finalists in the hunt to succeed retiring President John Hitt, […]

Scott PowersFebruary 22, 2018

The Arecibo Observatory, the huge, iconic radio telescope in Puerto Rico that has starred in movies and in important cosmic and physics discoveries, is coming under new management: of the University of Central Florida. The university announced Thursday it is now negotiating the final terms of a five-year, $20.2 million contract with the National Science […]

Scott PowersFebruary 15, 2018

The University of Central Florida Presidential Search Committee on Thursday narrowed a list of more than 40 applicants for the school’s presidency to eight semifinalists including the university’s current Provost and Executive Vice President Dale Whittaker and four candidates whose applications were not previously released. Whittaker, the number-two executive at UCF since 2014, is joined […]

Scott PowersFebruary 15, 2018

As the University of Central Florida presidential search committee meets Thursday to draw up a list of finalists, six new candidate names emerged, including a research vice president of the University of Oklahoma and provost at the University of Rochester, but no Florida political figures. The UCF search to find a successor to President John […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 26, 2018

Welcome to the United States of America, otherwise known as the world’s largest free speech zone. Unfortunately, too many college administrators don’t see it that way. On campuses across Florida and the rest of the nation, people in charge of higher education have established euphemistically named “free speech zones” that limit the places where students […]

Scott PowersJanuary 23, 2018

After watching the county’s biggest tax incentives package turn into its biggest economic development bust, Orange County on Tuesday began in-depth deliberations with at least two and possibly more players offering to salvage a heavily-subsidized Lake Nona biomedical research laboratory that is soon to be departed by Sanford Burnham Prebys. On Tuesday the Orange County […]

Scott PowersJanuary 23, 2018

Specialty license plates supporting Orlando City Soccer and declaring the University of Central Florida Knights as the National Champions got approvals Tuesday from the Florida House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee. The soccer plate was approved under House Bill 1263, seeking specialty plates for what sponsor state Rep. Mike Miller of Winter Park noted was the […]

Scott PowersJanuary 11, 2018

Concluding that there is an under-served market of soccer fans seeking news about American professional soccer, the Orlando Sentinel announced Thursday it is launching a website devoted to Major League Soccer news, analysis and commentary. The Sentinel reported Thursday that its new site, ProSoccerUSA, will tap into the coverage the newspaper’s sports staff has provided […]

Drew WilsonJanuary 8, 2018

State Rep. Mike Miller is on board for the UCF Knights getting a share of the college football national title, or at least some of the perks. In a letter to the White House the Orlando Republican and congressional candidate suggested President Donald Trump invite the Knights to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue “for the traditional White […]

Tag: University of Central Florida

UCF Provost Dale Whittaker picked as next president

UCF presidential search concludes this week

UCF gets its ear to the sky: university to take over Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico

UCF presidential search narrows to eight candidates including Provost Dale Whittaker

UCF late candidates include executives from Rochester, Oklahoma, no political figures

Demetrius Minor: The only free speech zone in Florida ought to be Florida

Orange County opens to proposals to salvage from Sanford Burnham center

UCF ‘National Champions,’ Orlando City Soccer plates move along

Orlando Sentinel launching national soccer news website

Mike Miller wants White House invite for undefeated UCF Knights