Community Bulletin

Maitland student qualifies for honor society

Kalee Eichelberger of Maitland was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Eichelberger was initiated at University of Florida and is among approximately 30,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi each year. Membership is by invitation and requires nomination and approval by a chapter. Only the top 10 percent of seniors and 7.5 percent of juniors, having at least 72 semester hours, are eligible for membership. Graduate students in the top 10 percent of the number of candidates for graduate degrees may also qualify, as do faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction.

UCF Business Incubation Program named as network partner

The University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program recently was named a Network Partner in the Veterans Florida Entrepreneurship Program and will align its ongoing efforts to provide entrepreneurship counseling and training to veterans with the mission of the new statewide program. Veterans Florida Executive Director Bobby Carbonell said the UCF Business Incubation Program was one of two additional Florida state universities and colleges that received funding to participate in and teach an innovative entrepreneurship program for veterans seeking to start their own businesses. Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University will also join the existing five partner universities bringing the total number of partners to seven.