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The University of Central Florida Digital Collections is a constantly growing collection of digital resources from the libraries' collections as well as partner institutions. All materials are open access, and full text searchable. The UCF Digital Collections' holdings include books, articles, newspapers, photos, videos, audio, and more. [7]
The University of Central Florida (UCF) is a metropolitan public research and space-grant university located on a 1,415-acre (5.73 km 2) main campus in Orlando, Florida, United States. [1] UCF is a member institution of the State University System of Florida and is the largest university in the
The University of Central Florida's Student Government (UCF SG) is an advocacy group for the students who attend the university, representing the university's approximately 70,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. It is the largest student government within the state of Florida and one of the largest in the United States. [163]
FTU Knights logo, ca. 1978. The UCF varsity athletic program was a charter member of the Sunshine State Conference in 1975. The school moved up to Division I in 1984. In its first years in D-I, UCF was a member of the American South Conference, merging into the Sun Belt Conference in 1991.
In October 2005, a local Orlando investment company, the Tavistock Group, donated $12.5 million and 50 acres (0.20 km 2) of land to UCF to help establish the UCF Medical School at Lake Nona, and issued a challenge to the Orlando community to help the university raise an additional $12.5 million to boost the total amount of raised funds to $25 million.
Addition Financial Arena (formerly known as CFE Arena and UCF Arena) is a sports and entertainment arena located near Orlando in Orange County, Florida, United States, on the main campus of the University of Central Florida. It was constructed beginning in 2006 as a replacement for the original UCF arena, and as a part of Knights Plaza.
The UCF Knights college football team competes as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), representing the University of Central Florida in the Big 12 Conference. Since the program's first season in 1979 under Don Jonas, the Knights have played more than 517 games, with over 290 victories.
East of Orlando, and about five miles (8 km) north of State Route 50 on Alafaya Trail, The University of Central Florida occupies approximately 1,100 acres (4.5 km 2) of east central Florida natural habitats, including some of the last elevated land (about 75 feet (23 m) above sea level) before the St. Johns River, which lies between the campus and the coast.