State University System
Parents’ Weekend bolsters economy, bonds families
Tallahassee Democrat (blog)
Tallahassee’s economy gets a booster shoot starting Friday with a few thousand parents coming through the city to join their students at Florida State University. Friday is the first day of Florida State‘s annual Parents’ Weekend…
Which Central Florida schools made Princeton Review’s best business schools …
Orlando Business Journal
The University of Central Florida was among the 296 business schools on Princeton Review’s 2013 best business schools list…
UCF marks LGBT History Month
Watermark Online
For the first time ever, the University of Central Florida is celebrating LGBT History Month with a series of events and programs to raise awareness about LGBT and ally history, culture and current events…
Trending: Florida Gators big on Facebook
ESPN (blog)
The University of Florida football team was a hit in Gainesville and across Facebook after its 14-6 victory over LSU. It may not factor into the BCS standings, but Florida has moved into first place in the latest Facebook top-25 social power rankings …
RTS ridership at a new high, but eastside routes a concern
Gainesville Sun
Propelled by University of Florida and Santa Fe College students, who comprise an estimated 75 percent of the ridership, RTS totaled 10.74 million passengers for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 — up some 700,000 from the prior year’s record…
University of North Florida poll: Obama leads with Hispanic, black voters
First Coast News
The key to President Barack Obama’s four-point lead over GOP nominee Mitt Romney in the presidential race is Hispanic voters and black voters, according to a University of North Florida poll.
UNF students help reorganize BEAM’s food pantry
Ponte Vedra Recorder
Graduate students with the University of North Florida’s Nutrition and Dietetics Flagship Program helped reorganize the Beaches Emergency Assistance Ministry Food Pantry by using a new colorcoded system.
State College System
Study: Brevard’s art shows add up
Florida Today
The report, titled “The Economic Contributions of Arts and Culture in Brevard County, FL” was formally released at a Wednesday evening reception at the Brevard Community College’s King Center for Performing Arts, attended by about 75 community leaders…
Daytona State awarded 2nd scholarship grant from Mexican government
Central Florida News 13
The Mexican government has awarded $6,000 to Daytona State College to provide scholarships and financial assistance to low-income Mexican-American and international students from Mexico enrolled in its college-credit and adult-education programs.
Gov. Rick Scott orders probe of FSCJ foundation expenses, state college …
Florida Times-Union
Gov. Rick Scott on Wednesday made clear what he meant by a “top-down review” of Florida State College at Jacksonville: He ordered a state inspector general investigation of spending by the college foundation. The governor’s directive also included a review of presidents’ contracts throughout the state college system, a day after the FSCJ board signed off on a $1.2 million exit agreement with President Steve Wallace. Scott in September called for a review of FSCJ leadership “from the top down,” saying management problems and “a lack of financial oversight” were harming students. In a letter sent Wednesday to Chief Inspector General Melinda Miguel, the governor cited Wallace’s spending of $46,000 in college and foundation funds on meals over a two-year period…
No FSCJ chief of staff yet, hold on staff suspensions
Florida Times-Union (blog)
There were a couple actions taken at the Florida State College at Jacksonville’s board meeting that didn’t make it into today’s story about President Steve Wallace’s exit…
2 dead in Doral parking garage collapse; rescue workers amputate trapped man’s legs to pull him from rubble
MiamiHerald.com (registration)
Hearing a rumble, a worried Rick Rutigliano, an electrical supervisor, ran to the other side of the new Miami Dade College parking garage to check it out. By the time he reached the site, a major chunk of the $22.5 million, five-story building, under construction on the college’s West Campus in Doral, already had collapsed.
Pictures: Parking garage collapses at Miami Dade College in Doral
MiamiHerald.com (registration)
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue at the scene of a parking lot collapse at the west campus parking lot of Miami Dade College in Doral that was under construction and collapsed on Oct. 10.
Final victim rescued from collapsed parking garage at South …
Washington Post
Rescue workers have freed a construction worker trapped in the rubble for about 12 hours after a parking garage collapsed at a Florida college…Ground was broken on the $22.5 million project in February, and the 1,855-space garage was to be finished in December, according to Ajax’s website. The first floor was to have classroom and office space. The structure is next to the college’s main office building and nestled among other campus buildings. The college serves about 8,000 students and is one of several campuses in the Miami-Dade College system. The campus opened in 2006…
NWFSC hacking case widens to include 200000 students statewide
The Northwest Florida Daily News
The Northwest Florida State College hacking incident has widened to include the personal information of over 200,000 students from across the state.
Independent Colleges and Universities
Ave Maria looking at health care options after 23 percent premium hike
Naples Daily News
Administrators at Ave Maria University say they are scrambling to find an affordable employee health care option after learning of a 23.5 percent premium hike in the school’s health plan for 2013…
EWC building will offer health education
Florida Times-Union
Construction has begun on a new Edward Waters College building where faculty will eventually pump out medical research and staffers …
JU will release president job candidates Thursday
Florida Times-Union (blog)
Leaders at Jacksonville University plan to release the names of finalists for its president job opening on Thursday…
Ringling college plans more topical discussions
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
The Ringling College of Art and Design has announced a series of targeted conversations as a follow-up to the “Imagination Conversation” that took place in November 2011 in collaboration with the Lincoln Center Institute for Arts in Education…
BUSINESS BRIEFS Stetson business school named one of nation’s best
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Stetson University’s School of Business Administration has been named one of the nation’s “Best 296 Business Schools” in a new guidebook released …
Obama returns to UM for third time in eight months
The Miami Hurricane
“You come to the University of Miami, spend four years here and you’re virtually guaranteed to see at least one or two world leaders – whether it’s the Dalai Llama, a sitting president, a former president or a presidential candidate…
Private equity firm plans boutique hotel in downtown Tampa
Tampabay.com
Now it says it plans to spend up to $7 million to restore the building as a swank hotel, with modern architecture, new landscaping and a bar and lounge overlooking the University of Tampa’s minarets.
Yip Yap: Noted and Quoted FLHE Voices from Around the State
Opinion: Gibbons simply ‘the best’
Tbo.com
We could focus on the footprints he left behind, things such as the University of South Florida,Hillsborough Community College or the airport…
Cotterell: Politics prevent opening the door to felon voting
Tallahassee Democrat (blog)
Daniel Mears, a criminology professor at Florida State University, wrote in the Tallahassee Democrat last week that there are no scientific data to indicate criminals are deterred by losing their right to vote…
Bust a move with The Links’ ‘Denim and Diamonds Gala’
Sun-Sentinel
The evening will feature a slate of local celebrity dancers including: General Counsel and VP of Public Policy and Government Affairs at Broward College, Gregory Haile…
Obama faces enthusiam gap from his base, says U.S. News reporter
St. Augustine Record
U.S. News & World Report White House correspondent Ken Walsh spoke Tuesday night at Flagler College as part of the 2012 Forums on Government and Public Policy lecture series…
FAMU Interim President Larry Robinson to participate in Anti-Hazing/Anti …
WTXL ABC 27
Florida A&M University (FAMU) Interim President Larry Robinson will speak at the Anti-Hazing/Anti-Violence Awareness Sunday. The service will be on October 14 at 11 a.m. It will be held at Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, which is located at 224 North Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd…
Death of cockroach-eating contest winner remains a mystery but …
Daily Mail
Matthew Karwacki, a 26-year-old student at Florida Career College in Lauderdale Lakes, was standing next to Eddie as they both ate the meal worms in the first round. But he said when he tasted his first cockroach, he was out. ’I just had one roach and tapped out after that,’ he said. ‘The taste did not suit me, but the texture for sure was the worst part.
Hispanics’ education levels rocket up
Miami Today
The percentage of Hispanics with a bachelor’s degree or higher has jumped from 10% in 2000 to 23% in ten years, said Edward Murray, associate director of Florida International University‘s Metropolitan Center…
PSC’s Bill Renfroe may be low-tech, but he’s high on professor …
Pensacola News Journal
[Bill] Renfroe, a Pensacola native, ran a chiropractic practice until 2000. He began teaching at what was then called Pensacola Junior College in 2004 as an adjunct professor and went full time in 2006. He is slated to retire after this semester…
Business Briefs
Winter Park/Maitland Observer
Rollins College President Emerita Rita Bornstein was recently honored by Junior Achievement of Central Florida with the the 2012 Henry Cragg Award…
Still confused?
Gainesville Sun (blog)
You can get “A Closer Look” at the proposed amendments on Monday, Oct. 15 beginning at 7 p.m. at the Santa Fe College Fine Arts Hall. A discussion about the amendments will be conducted by Jon Mills, former Speaker of the Florida House and professor …
Central Florida Puerto Ricans watch statehood referendum closely
Orlando Sentinel
“It’s referred to the best of both worlds,” said Luis Martínez-Fernández, a history professor at the University of Central Florida…
Foreclosures in Manatee jump in September, fall for the quarter
Bradenton Herald
“This is just the extent of the boom-bust we have seen,” said Sean Snaith, economist with the University of Central Florida. “The process has been a little messy in Florida. We’re seeing more signs of improvement in the housing market…
Nov. 6 election too important to miss, ‘Costanza’ tells UF students
Gainesville Sun
Jason Alexander, more commonly known for his role as George Costanza on the television sitcom “Seinfeld,” speaks to students for the Obama campaign at the University of Florida Hillel on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, in Gainesville, Fla…
Citrus Research Center Director Accused of Stealing Data for Journal Article
The Ledger
One of the most powerful officials in Florida citrus research faces a University of Florida investigation on allegations she used a colleague’s data in a professional journal article without proper attribution. Jackie Burns is the director of two major UF research facilities — the Citrus Research and Education Center in Lake Alfred and the Southwest Florida Research and Education Center in Immokalee — and oversees all citrus-related research for the university. Both facilities are part of the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS), one of UF‘s largest academic subsidiaries…
Death of cockroach-eating contest winner in Florida puzzles experts
NBCNews.com (blog)
“We know cockroaches shed a lot of allergens, but they’re not toxic in and of themselves,” Bill Kern, a professor of entomology at the University of Florida, told The Miami Herald.
Rep. Wasserman Schultz rallies UF students
Gainesville Sun
Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz rallied University of Florida students Tuesday to register to vote, downplaying the impact of last week’s debate on the presidential race…
State education board’s construction money request is essentially zero
Florida Times-Union
University of North Florida President John Delaney said money from the student fees are a “drop in the bucket” compared to what universities need. “We try to use that money for student-services-type stuff, not building maintenance,” Delaney said …
Former U.S. Rep. Sam Gibbons, who spearheaded USF, dead at 92
Tbo.com
After his signature accomplishment in the state Legislature — creating USF as the state’s fourth public university, alongside the University of Florida, Florida State University and Florida A&M — [Sam] Gibbons was elected to Congress in 1962…
Red tide lurks to south, but where will it go?
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
There is no way to tell how long this bloom will last, where it will go, or whether the intensity of the bloom will reach 2006 levels, said Jason Lenes, research associate at the University of South Florida Center for Prediction of Red Tides.
Democrats’ gains in Florida won’t tip control of House, analysts say
Florida Today
“Some of the districts that people thought would be competitive (in Florida) really aren’t,” said Susan MacManus, a political science professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa…
Releases and Web Stories
BCC’s Veterinary Technician Extravaganza October 13
Brevard Times
In recognition of National Veterinary Technician Week, taking place October 14 – 20, 2012, Brevard Community College will host an open house and “Veterinary Technician Profession Extravaganza” on Saturday, October 13, 2012..
Panel to Discuss Influence of Hispanic Media in Upcoming Election
Kitsap Sun
(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct 10, 2012–National media experts will explore the impact of the media on Hispanics, particularly in the upcoming presidential election, at a panel discussion that is part of Florida International University ’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication’s ( SJMC ) Hispanics and the Media: The Emerging Power Conference.
Mirrors, Internet Access: Lynn Sets Rates For Debate Coverage
BocaNewsNow.com
Lynn University just released its fee list for national media covering the third presidential debate on October 22nd at the school…
“Father of USF” Sam Gibbons Dies
University of South Florida
(Oct. 10, 2012) – Sam Gibbons – a Tampa legend, admired statesman and a stalwart supporter of education who helped found the University of South Florida – died Wednesday. He was 92.
