State University System
Panel eyes raising Florida tuition rates
Wink News
A higher education task force appointed by Gov. Rick Scott may recommend tuition increases and varying tuition rates based on a student’s year in school or academic field – ideas similar to those in a bill recently vetoed by Scott. The panel is scheduled to hold a webinar Friday to discuss those and other suggestions before finalizing its recommendations to the Republican governor and GOP-controlled Legislature. The working draft of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on State Higher Education notes that Florida’s tuition rates remain among the lowest in the nation and includes comparisons with universities in other states…
FAMU Hazing Defendant Enters No Contest Plea
ABC News
The first of more than a dozen defendants charged in the hazing death of a Florida A&M drum major entered a plea of no contest Tuesday to third-degree felony hazing. A judge didn’t impose a conviction on 23-year-old Brian Jones, of Parrish, Fla., who switched his plea from not guilty. Jones isn’t admitting or denying guilt in the no-contest plea…Eleven other FAMU band members face felony hazing charges, while another band member faces a misdemeanor count for hazing. Their trials are set for early next year…
Gov. Scott visit surprises FGCU
Eagle News
Scott visited Florida Gulf Coast University to familiarize himself with the campus, said Ron Toll, University Provost. Toll led the tour because FGCU President Wilson Bradshaw was out of town.
State may hit the road with new license plates
Tbo.com
Jones pointed out that Florida’s specialty tags – which include popular plates for the University of Florida and Florida State University - will not be replaced with the new flat tags until the existing plates are sold…
USF dorm Fontana Hall comes down
Tbo.com
Fontana Hall, the first privately owned off-campus dormitory for University of South Florida students, is being replaced to build a new student apartment complex. Construction workers began demolishing the 834-bed, 13-story dorm last week…
USF Urges Caution Following Two Sexual Assaults
WUSF News
Police at the University of South Florida continue investigating a pair of sexual attacks reported in residence halls on the Tampa campus. And while authorities say the incidents are apparently unrelated, they’re also encouraging people to be cautious …
State College System
The cost of Steve Wallace’s resignation at FSCJ
ActionNewsJax.com
FSCJ’s president has resigned. Dr. Steven Wallace refused to answer any of our questions after the board accepted his resignation as FSCJ’s president on Tuesday. “It is proposed that I end my service as college president at the end of the calendar year,” Wallace told the board. He has been president for 15 years. The resignation comes with a hefty price tag, 1.2 million dollars. He will officially step down as president in January.
FSCJ board approves $1.2 million for president’s exit
Florida Times-Union
The Florida State College at Jacksonville Board of Trustees gave its president most of what he asked for Tuesday as he stepped down: a continued role and a paycheck for almost two years to come. In their first public discussion on the recent tenure of President Steve Wallace, trustees agreed it was time for Wallace to move on after 15 years at the helm of Florida’s fourth-largest state college.
Florida State College at Jacksonville President Steven Wallace offers to resign
WJXT Jacksonville
As the Florida State College at Jacksonville’s board of trustees prepared to convene a special meeting to talk about President Steven Wallace’s employment contract, he offers to resign at the end of this year and leave the college in 2014.
The $1.2 million retirement
WOKV (blog)
Amid a financial aid audit that found a lax culture at Florida State College at Jacksonville and an independent review calling for more accountability, President Steve Wallace is retiring at the end of this year…
Moody’s upgrades HCC foundation’s student housing revenue bonds
Tampa Bay Business Journal
Moody’s Investors Service upgraded the rating to A1/VMIG 2 from A3/VMIG 2 on the Hillsborough Community College Foundation student housing revenue bonds.
Independent Colleges and Universities
Flagler College will build new academic building
Historic City News
Flagler College has the go ahead to build a new academic building on the site of its current Communication Building after a marathon St Augustine City Commission meeting last night that drug on past midnight.
Flagler president glad to move forward with new classroom project
St. Augustine Record
After a short night’s sleep, Flagler College president William T. Abare was able perform his regular duties Tuesday with a rested mind if not a rested body. In a St. Augustine City Commission meeting that did not end until after 12:30 a.m. Tuesday …
Scandal at Penn State influenced Florida: Failure to report abuse is felony …
ABC Action News
News of tougher legislation, dubbed “The Penn State Law” after the conviction of the school’s former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky on molestation charges, spread quickly at local universities, including the University of Tampa.
For-Profit and Career Colleges
For-profit college to expand in Coral Gables
MiamiHerald.com (registration)
The “heart of Coral Gables” could soon see the opening of a new Dade Medical College campus, president and CEO Ernesto Perez said. The for-profit school is currently in negotiations to secure 20,000 to 30,000 square feet of classroom space in the city at a location Perez would not disclose Tuesday…
Yip Yap: Noted and Quoted FLHE Voices from Around the State
Times Recommends: No on student board changes
Tampabay.com
The value of having an independently selected student member of the Florida Board of Governors was evident last year when a New College sophomore was the only one to speak out against veiled threats from powerful Sen. JD Alexander. Amendment 12 would unnecessarily alter the selection process for the student member to the board, and voters should reject it…
Editorial: The buck stops at FSCJ with the Board of Trustees
Florida Times-Union
The resignation under pressure by Florida State College at Jacksonville President Steve Wallace shifts attention to the stewardship of the college’s Board of Trustees. FSCJ is in disarray in the wake of the resignation that followed months of revelations about mismanagement, waste and weak oversight by a nine-member board that had been insufficiently engaged…
Woods: The buck finally stops on Steve Wallace’s desk — 1.2 million of them
Florida Times-Union
Maybe it was after the Pell Grant fiasco at Florida State College at Jacksonville. Or perhaps it was when a whistleblower was being demonized. Or maybe it was when the FSCJ board decided to suspend four supervisors and eliminate an executive VP job.
Florida ruling for DREAMers and children of undocumented to receive in-state tuition
NBC Latino
“The state regulations deny a benefit and create unique obstacles to attain public post-secondary public education for U.S. citizen children who would otherwise qualify for in-state tuition but for their parents’ undocumented immigration status,” U.S. District Judge Michael Moore wrote in a 19-page opinion…
Students With Undocumented Parents Win Right to In-State Tuition in Florida
ABC News
“Right now, because I’m paying out-of-state tuition, I’m graduating a year and a half to two years later than I was suppose to graduate,” [Wendy] Ruiz said. But after two years of feeling frustrated and wronged, Ruiz and four other students in a similar situation brought their case to U.S. District Courts in Florida…
Three finalists for JTA job offer disparate experiences
Florida Times-Union
…[Frank] Martin is also the chairman of the strategic planning committee for the Florida Board of Governors of the State University System and serves on the American Public Transportation Association’s Business Members Board of Governors…
Precinct name honors Brevard Deputy Barbara Pill
Florida Today
Steve Pill said there also is a move under way to create a scholarship in his wife’s honor at Brevard Community College. Barbara Pill, 52, was fatally shot March 6 during a traffic stop while investigating a robbery reported at a Melbourne-area motel …
FGCU volleyball coach suspended after DUI arrest
Naples Daily News
Florida Gulf Coast University fifth-year volleyball coach Dave Nichols has been suspended for three games following his arrest on a DUI charge early Sunday morning…
Florida Tech researchers diagnose coral disease
Phys.Org
Florida Institute of Technology biologist Robert van Woesik and his former student Erinn Muller—now a researcher at the Mote Marine Lab in Sarasota, Fla.—used a mapping technique to examine disease clustering and determine what might have caused the recent increase of coral diseases in the Caribbean. Their results appear in the October 9 issue of Global Change Biology…
Panel offers insight on amendments
Tampa Bay Newspapers
Leading the discussion was moderator Frank Alcock, associate professor of political science at New College of Florida…
Man’s roach-eating death in Fla. contest raises questions of why he did it …
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Sarah Bernard, an entomology student at the University of Florida, attended the contest — held during the store’s “Midnight Madness Sale” — and shot video on her phone of Archbold during the competition. ”I was focusing on him because I was closest to him and he was really entertaining,” she said of Archbold. “I saw that he had a clear strategy. He would push everything into his mouth and try to swallow it with water. He figured out what worked and he did it.”
Closing office breaks Peace Corps recruiter’s heart
Gainesville Sun
As Amy Panikowski cleaned out her office, it wasn’t until she took down her world map that she began to cry…Until August, Panikowski, 33, had been the Peace Corps recruiter for UF, ranked over the past few years in the top five nationwide in recruiting both undergraduates and graduate students. But when the Peace Corps changed the way it selects and pays college recruiters, and UF’s budget no longer could support the program with recent cuts university-wide, her position disappeared…
Red tide fish kill washes up on South County beaches
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
The good news is that winds should begin to blow the bloom and the dead fish offshore in the coming days, said Jason Lenes, research associate at the University of South Florida…
Hukill ad casts Bruno as Italian ‘political boss’
Daytona Beach News-Journal
That gives the campaigns an opportunity to try to define their opponent through the negative advertising, said Susan MacManus, a political science professor at the University of South Florida…
Let’s Fix It: People Across Age Groups Describe Medicare as Vital
The Ledger
“Health care touches everyone across the age groups,” said Susan MacManus, University of South Florida political science professor who has studied age and politics…
“Florida is now the capital of weirdness.”
Florida Trend
“Florida is now the capital of weirdness.” 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…
Losing our religion: One in five Americans are now ‘nones’
Washington Post (blog)
Ryan Cragun, an assistant professor of sociology who specializes in the nonreligious at The University of Tampa, said the study’s findings offer clear warnings for both political parties. “The point politicians need to get is that it is time to stop …
Pensacola man’s body identified
Pensacola News Journal
The human remains found on a nature trail at the University of West Florida were confirmed today to be those of a 47-year-old Pensacola man who went missing last year. William “Billy” Shores was reported missing in February 2011.
Releases and Web Stories
Barry University Leverages ShoreTel Mobility Technology for …
Business Wire
Provided by AT&T and ShoreTel, DMMV works with Barry University’s existing Avaya IP PBX and the campus-wide Wi-Fi network…
BCC’s Free Kids Dental Health Fair November 9 in Cocoa
Brevard Times
COCOA, Florida — The dental programs at Brevard Community College are teaming up with local dental professionals to host the 4th Annual Happy Smiles Happy Kids free dental health fair for children under 16 without access to dental insurance…
Lucky Palm Beach County Students To Tour Lynn Before Presidential Debate
BocaNewsNow.com
BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) — Class officers from schools throughout Palm Beach County will be taking part in debate prep — before the real presidential debate later this month — at Lynn University…
Negative political ads influence voters’ decisions on the presidential election
Lynn University
“Studies show that negative messages do subtly lower excitement from voters towards particular candidates,” said David Jaffe, expert on the campaigns and the media and dean of Lynn University’s College of International Communication.
‘Florida’s Imagination Conversation’ Continues with 17 Working …
PR Web
Ringling College of Art and Design today announced the hosting of 17 Working Sector Conversations on October 16, 2012, at the Longboat Key Center for the Arts as the next step in ‘Florida’s Imagination Conversation.’
NSF Awards UCF $1.8 Million to Recruit Freshmen into STEM Majors
University of Central Florida
The National Science Foundation is investing $1.8 million in a University of Central Florida researcher’s project to recruit students into Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programs by incorporating career planning as soon as they begin classes at the university…
UF programs in arts, health care to be presented on Capitol Hill
University of Florida
The University of Florida College of Fine Arts will feature the Center for Arts in Medicine during a special program Wednesday at Florida House on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.. “A Conversation on the Arts and Healthcare” will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. with a reception to follow. The event will convene national leadership to discuss the growth of the UF program as a model in the field and potential for expansion of the program in partnership with a variety of agencies. The program will present the work of the UF Center for Arts in Medicine, an international leader in education, research and outreach in the field of arts in health care.
National Archaeology Day
Archaeological Institute of America Latest News
The Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN) will celebrate the Archaeological Institute of America’s (AIA) National Archaeology Day on October 20… Florida Public Archaeology Network is a statewide program administered by the University of West Florida dedicated to the protection of cultural resources, both on land and underwater, and to involving the public in the study of their past.
