 Hitt was selected by the Florida Board of Regents to succeed Robert A. Bryan as UCF's president.Bryan had been serving in an interim capacity since June 1991 when Steven Altman stepped down as the university's third president.Upon taking office in Spring 1992, UCF's enrollment was 20,302, and as of Fall 2013 enrollment consists of 59,770 students representing over 140 countries, all 50 states and the District of Columbia.