{"id":66935,"date":"2015-06-24T12:01:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T16:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=66935"},"modified":"2015-06-25T10:20:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T14:20:48","slug":"orlando-magazines-2015-most-powerful-list-includes-ucf-leaders-alumni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/orlando-magazines-2015-most-powerful-list-includes-ucf-leaders-alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Magazine’s 2015 Most-Powerful List Includes 166su Leaders, Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"
Several 166su leaders and successful alumni were named this week to the Orlando<\/em> magazine 2015 list of the 50 most powerful people in the region.<\/p>\n The 12th annual list is made up of leaders in politics, business, education, sports, health, philanthropy and other fields.<\/p>\n 166su President John C. Hitt earned the No. 4 ranking, following Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer; attorney, businessman and philanthropist John Morgan; and Lars Houman, president and CEO of Florida Hospital and Florida Division Adventist Health System.<\/p>\n Under Hitt, who has been president since 1992, UCF has become the nation\u2019s second largest university with about 61,000 students. The magazine praised Hitt for leading the effort in October of breaking ground with industry and government partners on the Florida Advanced Manufacturing Research Center in Osceola County, a $270 million project to develop sensors for assorted electronic devices. Hitt also received the Historical Society of Central Florida’s 2015 John Young History Maker Award for lifetime achievements making a historic impact on the community.<\/p>\n Others with 166su roles named to the list were:<\/p>\n In addition to alumni Martins and Marchena (College of Sciences, UCF Class of 1982) several other 166su\u00a0graduates are on the top-50 list:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several 166su leaders and successful alumni were named this week to the Orlando magazine 2015 list of the 50 most powerful people in the region. The 12th annual list is made up of leaders in politics, business, education, sports, health, philanthropy and other fields. 166su President John C. Hitt earned the No. 4 ranking, following Orlando Mayor…","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":66936,"comment_status":"open","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":[166,8587,1238,13925,2095,2510,2955,12264,7619],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-66935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-alex-martins","tag-barbara-jenkins","tag-deborah-german","tag-george-a-kalogridis","tag-harris-rosen","tag-john-c-hitt","tag-marcos-marchena","tag-patty-sheehan","tag-rich-maladecki"],"yoast_head":"\n