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Lloyd DunkelbergerMay 13, 2018

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Florida’s public universities graduated 57 percent of low-income students receiving federal Pell Grants in six years, but that trailed the graduation rate of non-Pell students, a new study shows. The analysis by Third Way, a Washington, D.C.- based think tank, used newly reported federal data to track a 2010 cohort of first-time, full-time Pell students […]

Guest AuthorApril 16, 2018

Agriculture has continued to be Florida’s second largest industry for many years now. Even so, the industry itself is still a mystery to many who live in Florida’s sprawling suburbia. Our congressional district proudly boasts the top cattle producing county (Osceola) and usual top citrus producing county (Polk). Just take a short drive out of […]

Scott PowersMarch 29, 2018

Dale Whittaker has been affirmed by the Florida Board of Governors as the next president of the University of Central Florida. Whittaker, who currently serves as UCF’s provost and executive vice president, will become the university’s fifth president on July 1. He will succeed UCF President John Hitt, who is retiring from the presidency on […]

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 […]

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Pell Grant students trail in graduation rates

Darren Soto: The future of agriculture lies in Central Florida

Dale Whittaker affirmed as next UCF president

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