State University System
FAU to add 943-space parking garage
Sun-Sentinel
The hunt for a parking space at Florida Atlantic University could get a lot easier next year. FAU’s Board of Trustees approved a plan Thursday to add a 943-space parking garage next to the stadium on the north side of campus…
State may try to recover Digital Domain incentive money
Palm Beach Post
Port St. Lucie later issued $40 million in bonds to build the studio, and West Palm Beach offered land and other incentives to convince Digital Domain to open a film school with Florida State University…
Community calendar: Oct. 19 and beyond
Bradenton Herald
New College 2012-2013 Speaker Series: New Topics New College, a collaboration of the New College Foundation and New College of Florida, has announced six programs for 2012-2013. This dynamic community series features national speakers on relevant topics of our time in a lecture and panel discussion format, followed by an audience Q&A…
Dog-rescue shelter seeks help to fund new home
Seminole Chronicle
On a balmy October afternoon, about 20 excited tails wagged their way around the Honors College at the University of Central Florida. It’s a monthly event called Rent a Pup. It’s a simple, good-will gathering designed to give students a chance to spend a little time with a grateful dog so that they won’t miss their dog back home quite as much…
Four high court judges argue at UF for impartial judiciary
Ocala
Four Florida Supreme Court justices promoted judicial independence Thursday at the University of Florida, each with a professional as well as a personal interest in the issue…
State College System
Health care costs rise for Daytona State employees
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Daytona State College employees will see an increase in their health insurance premiums next year for the first time since 2007…
Attorney OK’s Daytona State’s Curb pact
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Daytona State College has moved a step closer in naming its music program the Mike Curb College of Music, Entertainment and Art. The board approved an endowment agreement Thursday with the Nashville music producer…
Governor: FSCJ board shouldn’t be influenced by third parties, letter-writing …
Florida Times-Union
Rick Scott sent a letter to Florida State College at Jacksonville board members Wednesday reiterating that he will not tell them how to vote – and saying nobody else should be doing it either…
Probe into FSCJ spending
Fernandina Beach News-Leader
Rick Scott, vexed by thousands of dollars Florida State College at Jacksonville’s outgoing president spent wining and dining the college’s trustees, has called for a five-year audit into the FSCJ Foundation.
IRSC to celebrate Cultural Diversity Day
TCPalm
Indian River State College will launch its recognition of International Education Week on Monday, Nov. 5, with Cultural Diversity Day…
4th victim’s body recovered from debris of garage collapse at Florida college
Fox News
Authorities say they’ve have recovered the body of a fourth victim in the Florida collegeparking garage collapse. Miami-Dade County police said Thursday that workers have removed the body after locating it earlier this week deep in the …
Santa Fe College to use Plum Creek grant to expand Blount Center
Gainesville Sun
Santa Fe College has received a $50,000 grant to help fund the construction of a new classroom building at the Charles L. Blount Center…
Independent College and University System
B-CU football team to don pink helmets for breast cancer awareness
Daytona Beach News-Journal
The Bethune-Cookman football team is planning to wear pink helmets for Saturday’s Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference home game against Norfolk State in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month…
Bethune-Cookman gives 21 scholarships to Duval County high schoolers
Florida Times-Union
Twenty-one Duval County high school students have received scholarships to attend Daytona Beach’s Bethune-Cookman University.
Hundreds of Lynn U. students vying for ‘hottest ticket in town’ as final …
Palm Beach Post
Amid drumrolls and anticipation, hundreds of Lynn University students will gather this Sunday for the chance to win one of about 50 tickets to what they are calling a front row seat to history…
Lynn prepares for media hordes covering debate
Palm Beach Post
The final presidential debate Monday at Lynn University is about electing the next leader of the United States, but with an estimated 3,000 or more reporters, photographers and technicians from around the world coming to town, it’s also a media event.
Sleepy Lynn U turning into debate headquarter
Palm Beach Post
It’s the calm before the storm here at Lynn University as the laid-back Boca college of about 2,500 students is expecting 15,000 media and VIP for the final presidential debate…
7th grade students taking on political season
WPBF West Palm Beach
Conniston IB Middle School in West Palm Beach is just one of several schools in the Palm Beach County school district to use the presidential debate at Lynn University as a teaching tool…
Lynn University Presidential Debate: Watch parties pop up around Palm Beach …
WPTV
Lynn University students don’t want to miss a moment of debate festivities in the days leading up to the big event. President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney will faceoff in Boca Raton on Monday…
Bill Nelson said Connie Mack takes two homestead exemptions, “directly …
PolitiFact
Connie Mack IV sparred over personal tax breaks during their only U.S. Senate debate at Nova Southeastern University in Davie…
Bill Nelson and Connie Mack Debate: Accusations, Lies and Cows
New Times Broward-Palm Beach (blog)
The one and only debate between Bill Nelson and Connie Mack went down Wednesday night at Nova Southeastern University, and it had all the decorum and civility of the last three minutes of Reservoir Dogs.
Princeton Review names Rollins College among best business schools for MBA
Orlando Sentinel
The Princeton Review has named the Rollins College Crummer Graduate School of Business MBA program in its new book, “Best 296 Business Schools: 2013 Edition.”
University of Miami Offers Legal Fellowships
JDJournal.com
The University of Miami law school has a fellowship program for its students that was created two years ago and receives funding from the school and from private grants outside of the school. The program is called Legal Corps…
WATCH: Most University Of Tampa Students Cannot Name the 2012 Vice …
Huffington Post
To start, I must confirm: On the whole, students at the University of Tampa seem wicked smart, energetic about learning, and engaged with the world and breaking news. That is why the video below is so sigh-inducing…
NBC to broadcast Sunday from University of Tampa
Tampabay.com
NBC will feature the University of Tampa on Sunday as part of its presidential coverage. Anchor Lester Holt of the Today show will broadcast live between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. while NBC’s Nightly News will broadcast between 6:30 p.m. and 7 p.m., …
Yip Yap: Noted and Quoted FLHE Voices from Around the State…
No Wars for Water
Foreign Affairs
The world economic downturn and upheaval in the Arab world might grab headlines, but another big problem looms: environmental change. Along with extreme weather patterns, rising sea levels, and other natural hazards, global warming disrupts freshwater resource availability — with immense social and political implications. Earlier this year, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence published a report, Global Water Security, assessing hydropolitics around the world. In it, the authors show that international water disputes will affect not only the security interests of riparian states, but also of the United States… SHLOMI DINAR is associate professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations and associate director of the School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University…
C. David Brown II: It matters who is next to guide UF
Tallahassee Democrat
Employment is on everyone’s mind these days, but there is one job opening that all Floridians should be especially interested in: president of the University of Florida…
Michelle Obama To Hold Broward Event on Afternoon Before Final …
NBC 6 Miami
She will speak to grassroots supporters at Broward College’s George Mayer Gymnasium on Monday afternoon, Obama for America said in a statement Thursday…
Edison student arrested for stalking another
WZVN-TV
A 20-year-old woman was arrested in Fort Myers on Wednesday for stalking and harassing another woman over an ex-boyfriend. According to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, the alleged victim notified them that she was being followed by Alexandrea Paige Conidaris while driving in the area of Summerlin Road and College Parkway…At one point on Wednesday, the alleged victim said she had been pursued by Conidaris on the campus of Edison State College and decided to leave the campus due to concern for her safety.
Embry-Riddle Opens New Administration & Welcome Center
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It is named for Embry-Riddle board chairman Jim Henderson, currently the chairman and CEO of Assured Partners Inc. in Lake Mary, Fla.
After helping build the program, associate dean of FAU’s med school retiring
Palm Beach Post
Robert Hinkley’s sporty Nissan 350Z attracts lots of attention. But gawkers are usually gazing at the words on his license plate: MD Maker. “The 69-year-old Boca Raton resident has a quick response. “I make doctors,” he explains. Hinkley, the associate dean of admissions and enrollment at Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, helped launch the program two years ago.
FAU welcomes Gloria Steinem on debate night
Sun-Sentinel
Lynn University won’t be the only Boca Raton university hosting well-known political figures on Monday. While Lynn welcomes President Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney, Florida Atlantic University will discuss women and politics with feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem and former legislator and mayor Lois Frankel. The event starts at 6:45 p.m. at the Performing Arts Building, Room 101 and is free to the public…
South Florida’s moderate income families pay nearly 3/4 of income for housing …
Sun-Sentinel
Still, it’s not all doom and gloom, said Jorge Salazar-Carrillo, an economics professor who directs the Center for Economic Research at Florida International University. The weather is mild and South Floridians save by not having to pay the North’s heating bills, he said. Food also is cheaper than in other parts of the country, he added, and people can take advantage of fresh produce grown locally. ”I know there are problems here in South Florida, but it is worse in other areas,” said Salazar-Carrillo, pointing to the high cost of living in the Washington, D.C., area where he once lived…
Bill Nelson: Connie Mack is ‘protecting’ Chevron from big oil pollution lawsuit
PolitiFact
“A lot of us familiar with Latin America don’t lend any credence to this award,” said Ed Glab, director of the Global Energy Security Forum at Florida International University and a former longtime employee of Exxon…
New Florida Senate President Promises Ethics Reform
FCIR
Evelyn Lynn, R-Ormond Beach resigned in 2008 from her $120,000 per year position at Florida State University. She said implementing the bill would make the Legislature lose important expertise about the needs of the state university system. I think this is setting a precedent that should never be set for any profession,” she said…
Andre Reyna Make-A-Difference Car Wash honors student
Orlando Sentinel (blog)
You might not have ever heard the name Andre Reyna until now, but those who loved the 21-year-old University of Central Florida student make sure each year that his spirit is not forgotten…
Analysis: Cuba’s immigration reform casts spotlight on decades-old US law
Reuters
The law really doesn’t make a hell of a lot of sense today,” said Jose Azel at the University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies…
Drug Shortages Spark Use of Compounders
MedPage Today
Steven Gayer, MD, professor of anesthesiology at the University of Miami, agreed that in times of shortage, “the correct answer is to find a compounding pharmacy.”
For women, presidential debates presented choices from health care to economy
Palm Beach Post
University of Miami political scientist Susan Kaufman Purcell says most women have already decided whom to vote for…
Scholars say prediction of GOP inroads with Jewish voters premature, Jews to …
Newser
However, Ira Sheskin, a University of Miami professor and director of the Jewish Demography Project, said Republicans aren’t on the way to overtaking the Jewish vote.
Boynton Beach city golf course arsenic: High concentrations of arsenic found …
WPTV
“It doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a problem; it’s a trigger that we should start looking at the water to see what the risks are,” said Helena Solo-Gabriele, an environmental and health researcher at the University of Miami…
Could Green Tea Help Fight Prostate Cancer?
U.S. News & World Report
However, at least one urologist, Dr. Mark Soloway, chairman emeritus of urology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, pointed to the new study’s limitations, and said it was too soon to say that green tea had any impact on prostate cancer.
Candidates Flock to Florida, Coveting Electoral Votes
Wall Street Journal
That means “you have the Republican governor saying one thing, and the Republican presidential candidate saying another,” says Matthew Corrigan, chairman of the political science and public administration department at the University of North Florida.
Governor’s task force proposal could lower tuition for certain majors
First Coast News
Rob Byther is a political science Major at the University of North Florida and is one of many students that would not see a reduction in his tuition if the state task force proposal goes through. He chose Political Science because he enjoys the social sciences, but fears that if only STEM programs such as science, technology and engineering get lower tuition, it could change the future of education. ”I think it will make it more empty. That’s the thing I really like about the liberal arts degrees, it’s a very well rounded education where as math is focused on you know numbers and science is specifically focused on the methods and the research,” said Byther.
Study of increase in traffic tickets issued around end of month inconclusive
The Australian Eye News
A researcher, Robert Picard – a student at the University of North Florida, published the results of his informal study on Thursday to address the rumor that says police issue more traffic tickets toward the end of each month to meet their quotas…
Recession-battered cities combine services
USA TODAY
Perlman, a University of New Mexico professor of public administration, and Benton, a University of South Florida government professor, say local governments have relied mostly on “quick-fix” strategies such as freezing hiring to cope with tight budgets…
Florida’s economy a Ponzi scheme, professor says
Bradenton Herald
Gary Mormino told a crowded theater on Anna Maria’s historic Pine Avenue that Florida’s economy is one big Ponzi scheme. As long as 1,000 new residents move down each day, supporting the taxes for those already here, buying sod from area nurseries and building new homes the state will thrive…The co-director of the Florida Studies Program at the University of South Florida says the state needs to look no further than its past to understand the mess it’s in now…
USF professor named director at Water Institute of the Gulf
Tampa Bay Business Journal (blog)
Veteran researcher and University of South Florida Professor Ernst Peebles has been named director of coastal systems ecology at The Water Institute of the Gulf in Louisiana…
GOP vice presidential candidate Ryan rallies Lee, Collier county voters, donors
The News-Press
That’s why Ryan will be in Tampa today for a business conference at the University of South Florida and then meet up with Romney tonight in Daytona Beach…
USF S-M students awarded Caldwell Trust Company Business Scholarships
Bradenton Herald
The Caldwell Trust handed its first annual scholarships to two students at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee. Halyna Tabakova and Timothy Lim are studying in the College of Business…
Releases and Web Stories
UCF Alumni Association Increases Fan Engagement and Web Traffic with …
Broadcast Newsroom
Jeff Garner, Director of Communications at University of Central Florida has his hands full. Not only is UCF the second largest university in the country, his team of four is tasked with managing everything from web, social media, technology, creative …
SAS Analytics Wizardry Helps University of Central Florida Students Win 2012 …
Businessweek
LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 10, 2012– A student team from the University of Central Florida (UCF) took gold in the national 2012 SAS Data Mining Shootout, sponsored by Teradata Corporation…
University of Florida chemists pioneer new technique for nanostructure assembly
University of Florida
A team of researchers from the University of Florida department of chemistry has developed a new technique for growing new materials from nanorods…
The Tropics and Global Climate Change
University of South Florida
But in a first-ever account of a long-term project in the southern Caribbean, a professor at the University of South Florida working with an international team of researchers has now found that tropical ecosystems are also affected by global climatic …
