page_title: List of University of Central Florida alumni
section_title: Civic, education, and journalism
hierarchical_section_title: List of University of Central Florida alumni / Notable alumni / Civic, education, and journalism
caption_attribution_description: English: Hector A. "Tico" Perez
context_page_description: The University of Central Florida is a metropolitan public research and space-grant university located on a 1,415-acre main campus in Orlando, Florida, United States. UCF is a member institution of the State University System of Florida and is the largest university in the United States in terms of undergraduate enrollment. It was founded in 1963 as Florida Technological University with the goal of providing highly trained personnel to support the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Florida's Space Coast. After the university's academic scope expanded in the mid and late 1970s to encompass a wider variety of disciplines, the school was renamed The University of Central Florida in 1978. Initial enrollment in 1968 was 1,948 students; as of 2014, the university has 59,770 students from more than 140 countries, all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Since the university's first graduating class in 1970, UCF has awarded more than 250,000 degrees, including 45,000 graduate and professional degrees, to over 200,000 alumni.
caption: Hector Perez
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