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Thursday\u2019s 2:30 p.m. ceremony will feature graduates of the College of Business Administration, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the College of Medicine and the College of Optics and Photonics.<\/p>\n

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer will be the guest speaker. An Orlando native, Dyer has served as the city\u2019s mayor since 2003. He earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in Civil Engineering from Brown University and received a law degree from the University of Florida. <\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s 9 a.m. ceremony will include students from the College of Arts and Humanities, the College of Health and Public Affairs, the College of Nursing, and Liberal Studies and Social Science majors through the Undergraduate Studies and Graduate Studies offices.<\/p>\n

The speaker will be Tico Perez, co-founder of Edge Public Affairs and a member of the Florida Board of Governors, which oversees Florida\u2019s state universities. He received his bachelor\u2019s degree in Political Science from UCF in 1983 and was student body president. He went on to earn a law degree from Georgetown University.<\/p>\n

Graduates in Friday\u2019s 2:30 p.m. ceremony will be from the College of Education, the Rosen College of Hospitality Management and the College of Sciences.<\/p>\n

The speaker will be Dede Schaffner, who is serving her third term as a member of the Seminole County School Board. As a parent volunteer, Schaffner founded Seminole County schools\u2019 nationally recognized Dividends School Volunteer Program. She earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in Elementary Education and a master\u2019s degree in Educational Leadership from UCF.<\/p>\n

The Arena doors will open to guests\u00a01 1\/2 hours\u00a0before the start of each ceremony.\u00a0The procession of graduates will begin 20 minutes before the start of each ceremony.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Guests must have tickets to attend the ceremonies. Guests without tickets are welcome to view closed-circuit telecasts of the ceremonies from the FAIRWINDS Alumni Center across the street from the UCF Arena. Broadcasts also will be posted after the ceremonies at http:\/\/webcast.oir.ucf.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The anticipated graduates include 3,712 who filed intents to receive bachelor\u2019s degrees, 810 for master\u2019s degrees, four for education specialist degrees and 65 for doctoral degrees.<\/p>\n

With this week\u2019s graduations, UCF will have awarded more than 225,000 degrees since classes began in 1968.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

For more information, visit the commencement web page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 4,500 University of Central Florida students are scheduled to graduate during three commencement ceremonies Thursday and Friday at the UCF Arena.\r\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":31210,"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":[5],"tags":[6454,1004,6456],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-31209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","tag-buddy-dyer","tag-commencement","tag-tico-perez"],"yoast_head":"\nUCF to Hold Fall Graduations | University of Central Florida News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"More than 4,500 University of Central 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