State University System
FAMU band members’ GPAs raise more questions about Marching 100
Orlando Sentinel
Nearly 50 members of FAMU’s famed marching band had GPAs last fall that were below a 2.0 — the minimum grade-point average required to participate in student organizations on campus…
Students Across Southeast Travel to FAMU for Renewable Energy Conference
WCTV
Hundreds of college students traveled to Florida’s capital to learn about renewable energy and send a political message. It was all a part of the 8th annual southeast student renewable energy conference. It took place on FAMU’s campus all weekend.
Thumb up: Harbor Branch and Indian River dolphins featured on ABC series
TCPalm
DOLPHIN WATCH: Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University in St. Lucie County will be featured on the season premiere today of the ABC series “Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin from the Georgia Aquarium.”
FGCU to host dialogue on sustainable foods
Naples Daily News
Florida Gulf Coast University‘s Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education plans to host a dialogue about ethical, humane and sustainable food options available in Southwest Florida during a dialogue Monday evening. The seventh annual Terry Tempest Williams Student Dialogue begins with a 5 p.m. networking session followed by a speaker panel and dialogue at the FGCU Cohen Center patio and lawn.
Amendment 12: Appointment of Student Body President to Board of Governors …
Ocala
Not every university is an active FSA member, however. Currently, 10 of the 11 universities take an active role. Florida State University prefers not to pay the FSA dues, feeling its interests are better represented in other ways…
Digital Domain vetting ignored critical reports, dire finances
Palm Beach Post
The documents show city officials began to explore a collaboration between Digital Domain and the Florida State University film school in December 2009. The public first learned of the deal in late August 2010. Commissioners approved a package of incentives that included $10 million in cash, a $15 million bond issue and 2.4 acres on Okeechobee Boulevard in November 2010…
Florida Supreme Court judges fight for their jobs
Thomson Reuters News & Insight
On Friday the justices took direct aim at the campaign to oust them, telling an audience of mostly law students at Florida State University that politics should be kept out of the courts.
UF campaign raises more than $1.7 billion
Gainesville Sun
The University of Florida announced Friday that it raised more than $1.7 billion in the Florida Tomorrow campaign, beating its goal for private donations at a time of reduced state support. The seven-year campaign beat UF’s $1.5 billion goal by about $201 million…
Innovation Hub so far has led to 85 new jobs, $7.2 million in investments
Gainesville Sun
…Hub tenants include numerous companies with information technology, mobile app and social networking technologies, as well as medical devices and other technologies. Most have an affiliation with UF…
108 booted from stadium during LSU game, police say
Gainesville Sun
University of Florida police ejected 108 people from the Ben Hill Griffin Stadium during the football game against Louisiana State University on Saturday and arrested an additional six. Arrests were made for trespassing after being warned, resisting arrest without violence and battery. One of the six arrests was a student. Thirty-eight ejected individuals were also UF students. Ejections were made for possession of alcohol, intoxication, standing on seat, possession of cannabis, no ticket, disorderly conduct, false student ID, smoking and violation of concealed firearm. Twenty-five civil citations were issued for possession of alcohol…
Why can’t I get into UF?
Palm Beach Post
Last year, UF said it received more than 29,000 applications for only 6,400 openings. The university admitted a little over 11,000 students to fill those 6,400 spots. The school has more than 49,000 students for the fall semester…Twenty years ago, about 13,000 applicants applied to UF. The school, when competition wasn’t as fierce, admitted a whopping 67 percent, considerably lower than the 43 percent UF accepted for the current fall term…
UWF opens nature trail after possible human remains were found
Pensacola News Journal
The University of West Florida reopened the Edward Ball Nature Trail today after it was closed when suspected human remains were found in woods 25 feet off the popular boardwalk. A group of students made the discovery around 4 p.m. Thursday, according …
State College System
Florida weighs reaction to allowing in-state tuition for illegal immigrants’ kids
Sun-Sentinel
State education officials are debating how to respond to a federal ruling that deemed it unconstitutional for Florida colleges and universities to charge higher tuition to the dependent children of illegal immigrants. The state could lose as much as $200 million a year if it has to reset tuition rates and offer lower tuition to all U.S. citizens whose parents are not legal residents, according to court documents filed by education officials. That change also could benefit out-of-state students, whose tuition is more than three times higher. Members of the state Board of Education, which oversees Florida’s 28 community colleges, will meet in private Monday night to discuss the lawsuit filed late last year by five South Florida students…
Palmer chosen as examination site
Daytona Beach News-Journal
The Daytona State College Library has developed an Election 2012 Research Guide that allows users to keep track of political news, issues and activities leading up to state and national elections in November.
College to sponsor events to raise awareness about disabilities
Daytona Times
Daytona State College will host two events on Oct. 17 designed to raise awareness of what it’s like to live with a disability…
Live blog: FSCJ board meeting at 10 am
Florida Times-Union (blog)
On Tuesday, the Florida State College at Jacksonville board will hold two meetings: the first to discuss the findings of the recent MGT operational report and the second, a regularly scheduled board meeting…
Florida State College at Jacksonville trustees consider options, costs of ousting president
WJXT Jacksonville
This is the latest development after critical audits of the college’s finances and management structure, $14 million in inappropriate awards of Pell grants, and the subsequent discipline and demotion of employees…
Union president: FSCJ faculty ‘feeling very ignored’ by Board
WOKV
While the Board of Trustees sorts out the problems at the Florida State College at Jacksonville, the faculty says they want to be heard in the process…
At this school, it’s never too early to learn math and science
NBC Latino
Since the preschool forms part of Miami-Dade College, they do offer a discount to parents working there. To prove the benefits of STEM, the school conducts state-wide assessments and monitors the children’s behavior…
Independent Colleges and Universities
Embry-Riddle Worldwide launches new college of business
Bizjournals.com
The Worldwide campus of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has launched a new Worldwide College of Business…
Flagler to get second public hearing for zoning
St. Augustine Record
Flagler College officials on Monday will ask the St. Augustine City Commission to pass an ordinance changing the zoning and allowing construction of a new 12,170 square foot, two-story academic building at 31 Cordova St. to contain classrooms…
Lynn University prepares for final presidential debate – slideshow
Bizjournals.com (blog)
The leaders of Lynn have taken their unknown status with a sense of humor and wisecrack that they’ll do T-shirts that say “Lynn University, we’ve never heard of you either.”
DeLand commission approves Spec Martin Stadium expansion
Daytona Beach News-Journal
In preparation for the return of football at Stetson University next fall, the DeLand City Commission approved a $3.235 million expansion of the city’s Spec Martin Stadium on Monday night…
Stetson initiative helps prepare students for election
Daytona Times
To help inform Stetson students about the issues in this election, Stetson University’s Center for Community Engagement will be hosting debate-watching parties, a straw poll and several forums during October as part of the university’s “Stetson Votes!
Rock The Vote Teams Up With Miami Tech Start-Up To Create Mobile …
Miami New Times (blog)
Last week, the Downtown Development Authority, Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s office, and the University of Miami announced a partnership to provide $25,000 in grants, a year of free space, and lifetime mentoring support to ten local tech companies. It’s called Launch Pad Tech. The DD s comitted $460,000 in funding for two years, while the county is providing $1 million over four years to fund the grants…
For-Profit and Career Colleges
Keiser University, law enforcemnt team up for degree programs
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Keiser University has teamed up with the Daytona Beach Police Department and the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office to offer on-site bachelor’s degree programs in criminal justice, homeland security and public safety administration…
Yip Yap: Noted and Quoted FLHE Voices from Around the State
Weaver: America must strive hard to reclaim place in space race
Orlando Sentinel
Once again, nuclear energy is in the news. But this time it’s not about safety or costs. It’s about nuclear energy’s remarkable success in revolutionizing space exploration, most recently on the Mars mission by powering the Curiosity rover and keeping the robotic vehicle’s instruments warm during frigid nights… Lynn Edward Weaver is president emeritus of Florida Institute of Technology.
Guest column: Students need classical education
Naples Daily News
Literacy is declining in America and students are struggling to read, write and perform basic arithmetic. Fewer citizens know the stories of our nation’s history or understand the basic principles underlying our Constitution… By Kelly Lichter is a doctoral student at Nova Southeastern University in charter school leadership.
Letter: Why Sarah Palin?
The Ledger
I see Southeastern University will have Sarah Palin speak at its annual forum in March. Gov. Palin quit on Alaska after just two years in office…Richard Connors – Lakeland
Editorial: Milestone event for USF
Tbo.com
The establishment of the Patel College of Global Sustainability at the University of South Florida gives an enormous boost to the university’s prestige and international stature. More importantly, the new college should generate innovative global solutions that can save lives, reduce tensions and increase prosperity throughout the world…
Editorial: Don’t squander park on sketchy museum idea
Tampabay.com
It hems in the park experience with a cul-de-sac feel and cuts off one of the park’s signature experiences, the sloping view of the historic and towering minarets across the river at the University of Tampa.
Shannon Nickinson: A pledge well worth keeping
Pensacola News Journal
Quint and Rishy Studer in January gave $1 million to set up the program, which aims to leverage the love that natives have for their hometown into a future full of more than wistful longing over all the youngsters who “had to move away to make it.” … Recipients get $2,000 per academic year to attend UWF or $1,200 to attend PSC…
New Tom Monaghan biography aims to be ‘fair, balanced and accurate’
AnnArbor.com
He also founded Ave Maria College and the Ave Maria School of Law in the Ann Arbor … including Ave Maria University, near Naples, which he also founded…
Broward College prof builds supercomputer with video game cards to find new …
Sun-Sentinel
A homebuilt supercomputer assembled from garage sale parts and video game cards found the astronomically large prime number that put a Broward College professor on the mathematical map. John Perretta, who teaches math and computer science, is the latest winner in the international hunt for ever-larger prime numbers. His number, which can’t be printed here because it would require nearly 300,000 digits, was announced last week by Broward College and verified independently by academic databases devoted to large primes…
Frank Upchurch Jr. remembered for his contributions to St. Augustine
St. Augustine Record
One of St. Augustine’s best-known legal professionals and aviators, Frank Upchurch Jr., died Thursday at 90. Among his many accomplishments, the longtime St. Augustine resident was a lawyer, a judge with the 5th District Court of Appeal, a founder of Flagler College and a captain in the U.S. Army Air Force who served in World War II…
Young, undocumented but no longer hiding
MiamiHerald.com (registration)
FIU law professor Juan Carlos Gómez, who is not related to Julian Gomez, has been helping low-income undocumented migrants for about two decades. “You hear all of these incredible stories of young people who have been brought to the United States and have such hope to contribute so much,” Gómez said. “They want to run businesses. They want to be accountants. They are paying for college out of their own pockets. These are incredible human beings, who will only make us a richer nation.” FIU law students, attorney volunteers and activists under his supervision have processed about 500 applications. They hope to process at least 25,000. There are an estimated 100,000 potential applicants in Florida.
An Ecosystem for Start-ups: ‘Launch Pad’
HispanicBusiness.com
Florida International University President Mark Rosenberg is hoping to include a required course on entrepreneurship for every undergraduate…
Miami Gardens appoints Nigerian-American FMU professor to council
MiamiHerald.com
A Nigerian-American college professor is the newest face on Miami Gardens’ city council. Erhabor Ighodaro was appointed to the council to fill the vacant seat left open when Oliver Gilbert won the mayoral race in August. Ighodaro jokes that many resident may not be able to pronounce his name at first try. “I know its difficult, but it’s my name,” he said. The 39-year old teaches criminal justice at his alma mater Florida Memorial University in Miami Gardens. He lives in the city with his wife and 6-year-old twin daughters…
Man freed by DNA test to speak
News Chief
James Bain, who was freed from prison in 2009 after DNA testing proved his innocence 35 years after he was incarcerated for a rape and kidnapping, will speak in Florida Southern College’s Hollis Room from 10 a.m. to noon Oct. 16…
Unemployment drop draws differing reactions
Bradenton Herald
[Sean] Snaith, economist at the University of Central Florida, said Friday’s numbers showed two things — the economy is getting better but it remains slow going…
Jobless rate falls to 7.8 percent, lowest since 2009
Palm Beach Post
“This is the fourth year of the economic recovery and we’re still close to 5 million jobs below where we were prior to the recession,” said University of Central Florida economist Sean Snaith…
Acting Miami AD Blake James embracing challenge
Yahoo! Sports
(AP) — Blake James will move into his new office Monday morning, and the title on his University of Miami business cards is changing. Other than that, James is hoping for business as usual…
Joe Biden Under Pressure Following Obama’s Lackluster Debate Performance
Huffington Post
“Biden has a chance to undo some of the damage from the first debate,” said David Steinberg, a debate coach and political communications specialist at the University of Miami. “The vice president’s biggest job will be as a fact checker,” he said.
The art and science of guessing a Nobel Prize
The Associated Press
When accurate guesses are rare, a person making an inaccurate guess can easily dismiss it by saying that most other people got it wrong too, said Jiao Zhang, a professor at the University of Miami who has studied the dynamics of guess-making. ”Whereas in the rare case when his guess is accurate, he can say to himself, ‘I’m among the few who got it right,’” Zhang said in an email. “Vindication and validation are sweet.”
ULI North Florida launches inaugural Awards for Excellence
Jacksonville Daily Record
Visionary Leaders Award. University of North Florida President John Delaney was presented the award for his use of urban growth management strategies at the UNF campus. Delaney, who served as Jacksonville mayor from 1995-2003, also was recognized for his growth management efforts, including the Preservation Project to buy land for preservation and for the Better Jacksonville Plan of capital, economic development and growth management improvements…
Good News
Florida Times-Union
Add Adam W. Herbert to the select list of people with buildings named for them. The University Center at the University of North Florida has been renamed in tribute to the school’s third president, who served from 1989 to 1998. After leaving UNF, Herbert was named chancellor of the State University System of Florida. He returned to UNF in 2000 as founding executive director of The Florida Center for Public Policy and Leadership. From 2003 to 2007, he was Indiana University president before retiring in Jacksonville…
Researchers take hard look at hidden risk of sports head injuries
Tbo.com
Gianluca Del Rossi, who holds a doctorate in athletic training and sports medicine and heads the University of South Florida Concussion Center, is spearheading the research. He and his fellow researchers are trying to learn about the cumulative effects of the numerous sub-concussive hits football players take throughout a season, not the obvious impacts that result in concussions…
Oaks at Tampa office building are spared ax, unlike Ybor City’s trees
Tampabay.com
Shawn Landry, a research associate professor and program director of the Florida Center for Community Design and Research at the University of South Florida, has studied Tampa’s tree canopy for the city since 1996…
Swing state: Hillsborough County has track record of choosing presidential winner
Naples Daily News
“This is the swing part of the swing state,” said Susan MacManus, a political science professor at University of South Florida in Tampa. “As Hillsborough goes, so does Florida. And as Florida goes, so does the nation.”
Lundin vows to stand up for minorities, run negative campaign for Collier …
Naples Daily News
University of South Florida Political Science professor Susan MacManus said negativity can affect voter turnout. “If you’re overly negative, you run the risk of tramping down the turnout,” MacManus said. “Voters get exasperated when they see negative ads…
USF professor retires with a storehouse of Florida knowledge, colorful stories
Tampabay.com
Gary Mormino, who retired from his University of South Florida history department in St. Petersburg on Monday, will have time to work in his garden now…Gary Mormino, who is 65, is anything but modern. Close friends say he barely qualifies as a 20th century guy. “He’s a throwback,” says Ray Arsenault, who with Mormino founded the Florida Studies Program on the St. Petersburg campus in 2003…
Releases and Web Stories
FIT Turns to Trolleys for Transportation
Brevard Times
MELBOURNE, Florida — New convenience and safety is arriving for Florida Institute of Technology students in the form of two former San Francisco tourist trolleys, according to a news release from Florida Institute of Technology.
FIT Announces Fall Japanese Calligraphy Workshop
Brevard Times
MELBOURNE, Florida — The Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts at Florida Institute of Technology announces its fall 2012 workshop “Japanese Calligraphy.” The workshop will be presented Monday, November 5, 2012 from 11 a.m. to noon on the second floor …
Oce Sponsors Presidential Debate at Lynn University
U.S. Politics Today
TRUMBULL, Conn., Oct. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Oce, a Canon Group Company and an international leader in digital document management, today announced its sponsorship of the third and final Presidential debate of the 2012 election cycle…
Florida Companies to Watch Gala to Spotlight 50 Companies
Sacramento Bee
ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 4, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Fifty high-performing companies from across the State of Florida, will be honored at the second annual Florida Companies to Watch gala event, hosted by GrowFL at the University of Central Florida…
UF trustee champions medical education program with $5 million gift
University of Florida
A member of the University of Florida Board of Trustees and his wife have made a $5 million contribution to help fund the College of Medicine’s new Medical Education Building and to continue raising its stature among America’s best medical schools. Dr. Steven M. Scott, and his wife, Rebecca, of Boca Raton, pledged their gift this month to support construction of the 94,000-square-foot building, to be located on the UF Academic Health Center campus between the McKnight Brain Institute and the Health Professions/Nursing/Pharmacy Complex…
Broadway’s best take to the stage
Destin Log
Six of Broadway’s hottest performers will appear at the Mattie Kelly Arts Center at Northwest Florida State College at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 11 in BROADWAY ROX. The live rock-style concert event celebrates the rock and pop hits of Broadway…
Peter Bielagus Offers Advice on Financial Literacy and Debt, Oct. 12
Santa Fe College
Santa Fe College is hosting a national speaker on Financial Literacy to speak to our students, faculty and staff on financial literacy and debt management. Peter Bielagus became a top authority on money management for Young America the hard way – by first falling deep into credit card debt. Peter entered college with several thousand dollars in savings but, within 6 months, he found himself $5000 in credit card debt. Determined to dig his way out of debt, Peter began learning about personal finance, reading over 300 books on the subject, interviewing experts, and attending seminars.
