{"id":60062,"date":"2014-06-27T13:31:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T17:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=60062"},"modified":"2019-07-08T14:54:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T18:54:37","slug":"magazine-names-ucf-leaders-alumni-orlandos-powerful-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/magazine-names-ucf-leaders-alumni-orlandos-powerful-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Magazine Names UCF Leaders, Alumni to Orlando’s Most-Powerful List"},"content":{"rendered":"
Five University of Central Florida leaders and several alumni were named this week to Orlando <\/em>magazine\u2019s 2014 list of the region\u2019s 50 most powerful people.<\/p>\n The 11th annual list in the magazine\u2019s July edition represents the region\u2019s political leaders, educators, business owners, tourism officials and others who lead and inspire.<\/p>\n UCF President John C. Hitt earned the No. 4 ranking. The top three names on the list are Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, attorney and businessman John Morgan, and Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs.<\/p>\n Hitt, UCF\u2019s president since 1992, leads the nation\u2019s second-largest university with nearly 60,000 students. The magazine praised the development of high-tech and research areas at UCF, as well as the creation of the Blackstone LaunchPad to help students develop entrepreneurial ideas into successful businesses.<\/p>\n Others with UCF roles who were named to the list are:<\/p>\n In addition to Martins, Marchena (College of Sciences, UCF Class of 1982) and Atchison (College of Business Administration, \u201892), there are five other UCF\u00a0alumni on the top-50 list:<\/p>\n A\u00a0separate list in the Orlando <\/em>article includes 12 people to watch in the coming years, including these UCF graduates:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five University of Central Florida leaders and several alumni were named this week to Orlando magazine\u2019s 2014 list of the region\u2019s 50 most powerful people. The 11th annual list in the magazine\u2019s July edition represents the region\u2019s political leaders, educators, business owners, tourism officials and others who lead and inspire. UCF President John C. Hitt earned the No. 4 ranking.…","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":60061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[166,8587,9579,517,865,979,1238,9652,1937,2095,2477,2510,2955,12264,3884,4068],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-60062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-alex-martins","tag-barbara-jenkins","tag-blackstone-launchpad","tag-board-of-trustees","tag-chris-castro","tag-college-of-medicine","tag-deborah-german","tag-dick-batchelor","tag-george-kalogridis","tag-harris-rosen","tag-jim-atchison","tag-john-c-hitt","tag-marcos-marchena","tag-patty-sheehan","tag-rasesh-thakkar","tag-rosen-college-of-hospitality-management"],"yoast_head":"\n