10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting College UCF alum Melissa Mitchum ’18 provides advice to help new students make the most of their college experience.
DirectConnect to UCF Award Recognizes Collaboration Between Institutions DirectConnect to UCF recently awarded the first Joyce Romano Partnership Excellence Award to an innovative collaboration between Valencia College’s Learning Support Division and the University…
PBS NewsHour Highlights DirectConnect to UCF All this week , PBS NewsHour premieres a special 5-part series, “Rethinking College: Closing the Graduation Gap,” which profiles five leading edge experiments aimed at…
Mom and Daughter to Graduate on Same Day at UCF Debbie Tyson will have an early Mother’s Day celebration this week: Both she and one of her daughters will graduate from UCF on the same…
New ‘Pathway’ Program to Boost Success and Ease Transition for Transfer Students Students who transfer to a university from a two-year college can be overwhelmed by a complex admissions process, different academic culture and plain old confusion…
Perfect Match: Valencia Students Pursuing 2+2 Degrees Visit UCF More than 150 students from Valencia College were introduced to the University of Central Florida in style during a daylong event focused on preparing them…
UCF Promises Admission to Florida’s Top High Schoolers Florida’s highest-achieving high school students will now be awarded for their academic success with automatic acceptance into the University of Central Florida. The new initiative,…
President Hitt: ‘A Very Special Year is Ahead of Us’ UCF President John C. Hitt delivered his State of the University address Tuesday at the Student Union. Faculty Senate Chair Ida Cook and Student Government Association…
New Scholarships to Increase Aid for DirectConnect to UCF Students New scholarships soon will be available to students at UCF and four local colleges that participate in the DirectConnect to UCF program. The Johnson Scholarship…