Grades Improve as POMP Grows

With the Spring 2012 semester in the books and final grades recorded, the Peer Outreach Mentoring Program (POMP) at UCF’s Rosen College of Hospitality Management concluded its second consecutive term with overwhelming success. The Program, which helps at-risk, probationary and readmitted students improve their grades through peer mentors, saw an average increase of 1.76 in [...]

  • Students Tug, Sink and Smash

     The RWC’s longest standing team event highlights RWC’s creativity in providing recreational programming for UCF students. Ready, set, sink! The Recreation and Wellness Center hosted RecFest XXII, an event in which 48 three-member co-ed teams competed in field-day  related games. The signature event was Battleship, an event held in the RWC lap pool where each [...]

  • Fashions from Around the World Modeled

    The International Fashion Show, a traditional UCF campus event, was held on April 11 in the Pegasus Ballroom. The event, first organized by the International Student Association in 1997, came back in style and full force after a four-year interruption. International and domestic students proudly modeled traditional and modern clothing from countries such as Japan, [...]

  • Delta Zeta Sorority Becomes an Official Chapter

    Delta Zeta held its installation banquet at the Sheraton Hotel in Downtown Orlando to become an official chapter at UCF.  To become a chapter, the sorority had to meet a number of university and sorority requirements, which during the past year took many dedicated hours of planning and hard work.  With all of the necessary [...]

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  • Volunteers uKnighted to Serve Community

    The Department of Housing and Residence Life strives to provide students a safe and secure environment that is conducive to academic success and personal achievement.  In the Lake Claire Community, first-year students had the opportunity to live in Volunteers uKnighted. Although the students living there are individually different, together they are one community, working through [...]

  • What ELSE Can I Do With My Psychology Degree?

    Many Psychology students visit the Career Services office asking what they can do with their degree. With Psychology being the largest major at UCF, there is a need to showcase the limitless opportunities available to students. Erin Robinson and Renee Hudson, graduate assistants in the Career Services office, hosted an event entitled “What ELSE Can [...]

  • UCF Student Leaders Promote Bullying Awareness

     Recently, LEAD Scholars and the Student Government Association came together to usher in change. Awareness was their goal;  their mission was to bring to light an issue recently plaguing the country: bullying. The repercussions of bullying – self-mutilation, self-hatred and suicide are what mobilized the groups to take action. They don’t want UCF to suffer [...]

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A Graduation Story

More than 4,500 UCF students graduated during December 15-16 commencement ceremonies. The anticipated graduates include 3,712 who filed intents to receive bachelor’s degrees, 810 for master’s degrees, four for education specialist degrees and 65 for doctoral degrees. With this week’s graduations, UCF will have awarded more than 225,000 degrees since classes began in 1968.