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• The University of Central Florida has picked four finalists in its search for a new president. UCF president John Hitt is retiring in June after 25 years at the helm.
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• The White House’s executive orders on immigration sent colleges and universities scrambling to figure out how to help foreign students and faculty affected by the order. We talk to UCF president John Hitt about universities and immigration, and he weighs in on university funding and the downtown campus.
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• The University of Central Florida has been given the go ahead to start designing its downtown Orlando campus.
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• The University of Central Florida plans to expand in downtown Orlando. President John Hitt announced Tuesday the university will partner with Valencia College on a downtown campus that will educate up to 10,000 students. Hitt says the goal is to expose students to downtown work opportunities and also enhance education in low-income Parramore. He says the idea is modeled after Arizona State University’s downtown campus, which has about 11,000 students. “They’ll tell you it’s the best thing they ever did. That it had more of an economic and social impact than the Major League Baseball stadium they put downtown or the NBA arena.” The UCF campus would be located in the Creative Village, a development planned for the site of …
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