State University System
Universities work to alert past and current students to data breach
Tallahassee Democrat (blog)
Hundreds of thousands of past Florida college and university students have not yet been notified that hackers may have accessed their sensitive identifying information, including dates of birth and Social Security numbers. The Florida Department of Education is trying to track down some 200,000 students who were eligible for Bright Futures Scholarships, many of whom have since graduated, which can make them difficult for officials to reach…
Florida State sees doctoral degrees increase
Florida Flambeau
Florida State University awarded 443 doctoral degrees last year, a sizable increase from the previous record of 429 doctorates set in the 2010-2011 academic year. The growth represents an ongoing trend that has resulted in a 73 percent spike over the past decade and has many begging the question, “why now?”…
‘College Park’ Planning Meeting Tonight Welcomes Public Input
WCTV
Design concepts for an initiative to improve the district between downtown Tallahassee and Florida State University will be presented at a community meeting to take place on Monday, October 15, 2012 at 6 pm at the Challenger Learning …
College tries novel tactic to prevent suicide
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
The transition to college is stressful for most students, but those attending New College of Florida often have an added layer of angst. New College is Florida‘s honor college, which means it attracts some of the state’s brightest — and therefore some of its most successful, competitive and driven students…
UF faces struggle over what to do about feral cats
Gainesville Sun
University of Florida staff member Kat Worden’s love for cats prompted her to use a crowbar to save one trapped beneath a campus building, placing her in the middle of a struggle over what to do about feral cats…
Where was Fort Caroline? UNF students and professors keep up the search
Florida Times-Union
…People have looked for it over the years. But it’s as if it has just vanished, as if there never were that tenuous foothold somewhere on the banks of the St. Johns River. Still, a team of University of North Florida archaeologists and students kept up the search on Friday, plunging into palmetto thickets, digging through ancient oyster shells, sifting through the thin soil near Spanish Pond, deep inside the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve…
USF, New College Pledge: Award More Degrees
83degreesmedia
The University of South Florida and New College of Florida are among just under 500 public colleges and universities across the nation pledging to raise the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded by the year 2025. Project Degree Completion, a joint program of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) and the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU), joins with the Lumina Foundation and other national organizations to increase the number of Americans with college degrees by 3.8 million, or to 60 percent of the U.S. adult population…
Taking Charge of the Physician Shortage
HealthLeaders Media
The University of South Florida’s Morsani College of Medicine in Tampa has been training physicians since its charter class enrolled in 1971, but apparently Morsani and other medical schools have not done enough…
Majority of USF students vote Obama in campus straw poll
WTSP 10 News
University of South Florida officials report 63 percent of students who voted in today’s campus straw poll favored President Barack Obama over his Republican opponent, Governor Mitt Romney…
State College System
Daytona State to expand Flagler campus to meet growing demand
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Being able to live at home and study in a small campus setting was key for Cindy Flores and her sister Brenda in deciding to go to Daytona State College‘s Flagler/Palm Coast campus…
FSCJ foundation leaders: We will cooperate with Florida inspector general probe
Florida Times-Union (blog)
Leadership of the Florida State College Foundation on Monday said it will cooperate with an inspector general investigation Gov. Rick Scott ordered last week…
Recovery Of Assumed Robert Budhoo Remains From Collapsed Garage May …
Huffington Post
A body believed to be that of missing worker Robert Budhoo has been officially confirmed by police — but may take days more to recover from the rubble of a collapsed parking garage on the Miami Dade College Doral campus…
Northwest Florida State College data breach at may affect current, former UF …
Gainesville Sun
A computer security breach at Northwest Florida State College may include the personal information of some current or former University of Florida students…
Seminole State features alternative-fuel vehicles at Odyssey Day event
Mysanfordherald
Seminole State College of Florida’s Automotive Program will feature alternative-fuel vehicles at its Odyssey Day event on Thursday, Oct. 18, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the college’s Sanford/Lake Mary Campus. The event is a collaboration among Seminole State, the Central Florida Clean Cities Coalition and Get Ready Central Florida…
Independent Colleges and Universities
Political Spotlight To Shine On S. Florida’s Lynn U. At Presidential Debate
CBS Miami
The eyes of the nation will be on South Florida on Oct. 22nd as the third and final Presidential debate is held at Lynn University in Boca Raton. Lynn University is a small, quiet school but it’ll be anything but quiet when President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney hold their final presidential campaign debate on campus…
About 80 Lynn courses make Oct. 22 presidental debate part of study
Palm Beach Post
One reason that makes Lynn University the perfect setting for a presidential debate on foreign policy is the remarkable diversity of its student body. Here are the points of origin for some of the students in Anna Krift’s International Diplomacy class: Morocco, Colombia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Argentina, Jamaica, Nigeria and Spain. In this particular class the foreign-born students slightly outnumbered their American classmates…
Lynn spends millions preparing campus for debate’s big night
Palm Beach Post
…In the months since this little college learned it will host what might well be the most important single event in the selection of the next president of the United States, it’s done more than just spruce up the place and put up a couple of decorations…
Roads around Lynn University in Boca Raton to close for debate
Sun-Sentinel
The presidential candidates won’t go toe-to-toe in the final debate until Monday night, but expect plenty of headaches on the roads around Lynn University as early as Monday morning…
Political Notebook: Mack-Nelson debate set for Wednesday night
Naples Daily News
The debate sponsors and partners include Leadership Florida, the Florida Press Association, host site Nova Southeastern University, Florida Blue, Florida Credit Unions, AARP and the Claude Pepper Foundation…
Congressional candidates to square off in debate
Daytona Beach News-Journal
District 6 congressional candidates Heather Beaven of Palm Coast, a Democrat, and Ron DeSantis of Ponte Vedra Beach, a Republican, will meet next week in a debate co-sponsored by Stetson University’s Center for Community Engagement…
Yip Yap: Noted and Quoted FLHE Voices From Around the State
Voguit to examine two-party system
St. Augustine Record
“I have looked at presidential elections, congressional elections and gubernatorial elections between 1865 and 1900 and clearly America was voting for Democrats or Republicans,” said Flagler Collegeassistant professor Steve Voguit…
Romney reducing Obama’s big lead among Florida Hispanics
Fox News
The survey headed by Florida International University professor Eduardo Gamarra and Miami-based consultants Newlink Group shows that Obama has the support of 50.7 percent of Latino voters in Florida, compared to the 44.2 percent who say they support …
Miami-Dade judge steps off FIU stabbing case
MiamiHerald.com (registration)
A Miami-Dade judge on Monday recused himself from presiding over the case of a Florida International University student accused of murdering a school football player. The reason: defendant Quentin Wyche wrote a letter critical of Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Milton Hirsch. Wyche, 24, is charged with second-degree murder in the March 2010 fatal stabbing of an unarmed FIU running back, Kendall Berry, during a campus brawl.
Florida Democrats Cut Traditional Republican Lead in Mail Votes
Bloomberg
“It’s not good news for Republicans,” said Brad Gomez, a political science professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee, who studies voter turnout. “Republicans would prefer their advantage they’ve seen in past years.”…
Researcher Awarded Grant To Fight Muscular Dystrophy
WCTV
A Florida State University researcher hopes to help eliminate the trigger that causes one of the most inheritable forms of muscular dystrophy – fascioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) – and perhaps even wipe out that disease. Assistant Professor of Biological Science Brian Chadwick is focusing his research on understanding the biology of certain types of repetitive DNA sequences in the human genome, about the function of which scientists know surprisingly little. Chadwick hopes to find out how changes to their size and organization can result in susceptibility to FSHD. Chadwick was recently awarded a $393,000 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to pursue his research…
ardships easy for this student
Sun-Sentinel
Like the one about being deported back to Mexico when he was 8, and working his way back to the United States and a scholarship at Northwood University in West Palm Beach. “It helped humble me,” [Juan] Guerrero said of the time he spent in Mexico…
Political ads bombard viewers, but to what effect?
Huffington Post
“It’s just way too much,” says Scot French, a history professor at the University of Central Florida. He lives along the swing-voting Interstate 4 corridor that will play an important role in deciding whether President Barack Obama or Mitt Romney wins …
Remains of Missing University of Florida Student Identified
Fox News
Investigators say dental records of a body found in a wooded area near Gainesville, Fla., positively match Christian Aguilar. The announcement officially ended a nearly month-long search for the University of Florida freshman from Miami.
The Blue Trees exhibit comes to University of Florida
WUFT
Australian artist Konstantin Dimopoulos paints a tree outside of the University of Florida Reitz Union as part of his “The Blue Trees” exhibit…Dimopoulos said in an email that the purpose behind the exhibit was to bring attention to deforestation.
UF ROTC student arrested in burglary at National Guard Armory
WJXT Jacksonville
A University of Florida student and member of the Army National Guard ROTC program was arrested Sunday in Lake City after police said he burglarized the National Guard Armory. Police said that about 12:20 a.m. Sunday, Cadet Michael Gaines was wearing a black ski mask and gloves when he burglarized a locked storage room at the armory at 490 N.W. Lake Jeffrey Road. Police said Gaines, 22, was apprehended immediately after the burglary and turned over to police...
Insight: Could Obama’s “ground game” clinch the election?
Reuters
“Sophisticated campaigns know that there are voters who, if they are left to their own devices, they won’t turn out,” said Christopher Mann, a political scientist at the University of Miami…
Doris Kearns Goodwin says Lincoln was the greatest American president.
Florida Times-Union
When Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses “Former U.S. Presidents and Their Mark on the World” at the University of North Florida on Wednesday, she’ll be concentrating on two presidents in particular. “Mostly I’m going to talk about presidents who dealt with a time of crisis,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian said in a telephone interview.
Sam Gibbons: A legend, servant of Florida
MiamiHerald.com (registration)
He brought us home a state college, the University of South Florida, and was named the school’s father. The federal courthouse downtown bears his name a somewhat risky proposition when the person is alive and still has the potential to embarrass you, as politicians will, but I don’t think anyone worried about Sam Gibbons…
Think you see a lot of political ads? Just wait
Tbo.com
That’s a common reaction, according to Erika Matulich, a professor of marketing at the University of Tampa. ”There is a concept called ‘ad wearout,’ which means that when our brain is saturated with a particular ad or even type of ad, we simply tune it out,” she said. “And if the ads are so plentiful that they are hard to tune out, the attitude toward the advertiser goes down, because we get irritated or angry at being bombarded with the ads.”
For Obama and Romney, it’s Round 2. Here’s what it takes to ‘win’ What it …
Pensacola News Journal
Obama, coming off a poor performance in the first debate, and Romney, who saw his campaign energized after a commanding performance, come to the town hall setting with different challenges, said Brendan B. Kelly, director of the UWF School of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts…
A New Way to Think About College
National Journal
It is not exploratory,” said Joyce Romano, vice president for student services at Valencia Community College…
Releases and Web Stories
Theatre Conference Comes to SF Fine Arts Hall Oct. 24 – 27
Santa Fe College
The high school one-act play competition, community theatre play festival, and shows presented by theatre for youth will be hosted at Santa Fe College’s Fine Arts Hall. Inexpensive day passes are available for the community and youth theatre festival …
Veterans Law seminar is Oct. 27 at Stetson’s Tampa Law Center
MarketWatch (press release)
GULFPORT, Fla., Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – Stetson University College of Law and the Florida Bar will host a Veterans Law Accreditation Training program at the Tampa Law Center, 1700 N. Tampa St., Tampa, Fla., on Oct. 27. Registration …
UF awarded $2 million grant to boost science, math teaching in Florida schools
University of Florida
As part of the state grant, UF is providing technical assistance to Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne in developing a UTeach “replicate” program on their campus, according to Dana.
Housing Agreement Announced
University of South Florida
TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 15, 2012 – The Department of Housing & Residential Education (H&RE) at the University of South Florida Tampa announced today that it has entered into housing affiliation agreements with two local student apartment complexes, the 4050 Lofts Student Housing Community and Campus Club Tampa. 4050 Lofts is managed by Campus Advantage and Campus Apartments manages Campus Club Tampa. Both are popular housing choices of USF students…
