Highlights From the Open Forum, Part I

From the reporting of the Central Florida Future:

Mark Ritner, an environmental engineering major, was also unmoved by the president's response to his concerns about academic dishonesty at UCF.

"It is a serious problem across the country, and we have been proactive here at UCF over the last eight or 10 years in trying to address it," Hitt said. "Are we where we'd like to be? I don't think any university in the country is."

Ritner called the president's answer a polished political response.

"It appears that undergraduate academic standards of integrity and competency are probably the fifth or sixth item down President Hitt's priority list," Ritner said.