State University System
Florida Poly Trustees Take First Steps; Bostick Named Vice Chair
The Ledger
Florida Polytechnic University has a chairman and vice chairman for its Board of Trustees now — and a plan. The daunting task of creating a new, state university loomed over the first meeting of the eight members of the Board of Trustees on Wednesday in Orlando…
UF and Alligator try to hash out compromise on rack removal
Gainesville Sun (blog)
Representatives of the Independent Florida Alligator and the University of Florida sat down today to discuss the university plan to replace the paper’s distinctive orange rackswith black modular units owned by UF. It was an amiable meeting, except for one telling exchange. Thomas Julin, a Miami-based attorney representing the Alligator, expressed concern that the plan might allow UF to restrict distribution of the student newspaper if it disagreed with a story in it. Moving away from the orange racks might also cause readers to be less likely to get the paper, he said…
UF, at 80th, Is Florida’s Top School — Forbes
Sunshine State News
At a time when lawmakers have been focused on improving the national standings of Florida universities, the state landed only one school on the annual Forbes list of the top colleges that was based upon results rather than reputation. The University of Florida landed 80th on the Forbes list, 52 places ahead of the private University of Miami and 113 slots before the Florida State University…
State College System
FSCJ will release perfomrance pay of employees
Florida Times-Union
Florida State College at Jacksonville will release employees’ performance pay data nearly two years after the Times-Union first requested the information. FSCJ will give the Times-Union the information after consulting with Pat Gleason, state Attorney General’s Office special counsel for open government, who agreed that the college should fulfill the media company’s request…
GCSC receives $500000 teacher quality grant
Port St. Joe Star
Gulf Coast State College has been awarded continued funding for the Teacher Quality Grant project begun this summer in partnership with the Panhandle Area Educational Consortium (PAEC). Following a successful first year, the $500,000 grant will fund the second year of the three-year Biology Partnership Project…
GCSC trains 28 science teachers
The News Herald
Panhandle science teachers went back to school this summer at Gulf Coast State College to learn techniques to better teach their students…
More express bus routes to Miami planned; Fort Lauderdale routes lag
Sun-Sentinel
Stops in the Civic Center area will include Jackson, Veterans Administration and University of Miami hospitals, the Miami-Dade County Courthouse, Miami-Dade College Medical Campus and the Metrorail station near the hospitals…
PB State reaffirmed for accreditation
The South Florida Times
Palm Beach State College has been reaffirmed for accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. The 79-year-old former Palm Beach Community College received official word from the accrediting body following an extensive two-year process that included a site visit last October by a SACS Commission on Colleges team of higher education experts and leaders. The reaffirmation is valid through 2022…
Independent Colleges and Universities
Obama weighs in on tax cuts, reducing deficit at Rollins College visit
Bizjournals.com
President Barack Obama focused on tax cuts and reducing the national deficit as he compared his plans to revive the economy with Republican opponent Mitt Romney’s strategy yesterday at an election rally at Rollins College in Winter Park.
President Obama speaks at Rollins College
East Orlando Sun
The president, on the campaign trail for reelection, had originally expected to deliver a speech at Rollins College on July 20, but after news broke of a mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, he canceled that speech…
Obama returns to Orlando area today for rally at Rollins College
Central Florida News 13
It was understandable that the president cancelled his original plans to visit Rollins College two weeks ago, but it left a lot of people in Central Florida disappointed after they waited in long lines for tickets to the event…
At Rollins, Obama calls Romney’s ‘trickle-down’ tax plan ‘fairy dust’
Orlando Sentinel
President Barack Obama, speaking to 2,400 screaming supporters at Rollins College on Thursday, said the 2012 election offers “two fundamentally different visions for America,” between what he called Mitt Romney‘s tax cuts for the rich versus his own defense of the middle class. Interrupted several times by a crowd chanting “Four more years!” the president’s roughly 30-minute speech contrasted his own economic plan with a study released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center that said Romney’s proposed tax cuts for the wealthy would boost taxes for the middle class…
President’s motorcade causing traffic delays
Orlando Sentinel
President Barack Obama’s visit could cause some traffic delays between the airport and Rollins College, where he is expected to deliver a campaign speech this afternoon…
President Obama speaks at Rollins College
Winter Park/Maitland Observer
Central Floridians packed the Harold and Ted Alfond Sports Center at Rollins College to see President Barack Obama on Thursday. When Obama mentioned he would be celebrating his 51st birthday on Saturday, the crowd broke into a spontaneous “Happy Birthday” serenade…
Demolition of Stover Theatre moved up
Daytona Beach News-Journal
DELAND — The demolition of Stover Theatre will begin Monday, two days ahead of schedule, according to Stetson University officials.
Stetson partners with Boston Reed College to offer pharmacy, veterinary …
Daytona Times
As demand for skilled health care workers increases, Stetson University is launching a new, affordable health care training program…
Sebastian the Ibis sees changes, carries on tradition
The Miami Hurricane
“The University of Miami adopted the ibis as the official mascot for the university’s athletic teams, representing the leadership courage, knowledge, strength and speed characteristics that our student-athletes portray,” the article on that site said …
University of Miami Hospital reaches labor deal, to hire 91
Upstart
University of Miami Hospital reached an agreement with its labor union for a new contract that rewards employees for good patient outcomes and includes a commitment to hire 91 workers.
Tampa’s diverse history, attractions offer RNC visitors plenty to do outside …
Washington Post
A statue of JFK now stands at the present site of the University of Tampa, looking out over his eponymous thoroughfare. The Tampa-JFK connection is just part of Florida’s rich presidential history…
Yip Yap: Noted and Quoted FLHE Voices from Around the State
A lovely parting gift for Florida
Hernando Today
During the last legislative session, one legislator used his position as appropriations chair to push through a bill creating the state’s 12th university while cutting $300 million from the existing 11. Not one of the legislative leaders reined in his costly pet project. Some claimed the state needed more STEM degrees — short for science, technology, engineering and mathematics — as though UF’s College of Engineering is somehow a front for the liberal arts. Despite editorials in opposition from all the state’s major newspapers, as well as the well-reasoned advice from the Council of 100, Gov. Rick Scott signed the bill into law, declaring: “At a time when the number of graduates of Florida’s universities in the STEM fields is not projected to meet workforce needs, the establishment of Florida Polytechnic University will help us move the needle in the right direction.”…Paula Dockery is a term-limited Republican senator from Lakeland who is chronicling her final year in the Florida Senate…
Brazil creates its own economic woes
MiamiHerald.com
Brazil’s economic future does not look nearly as bright as its recent past. Since 2010, when the country registered GDP growth of 7.5 percent, its economy has slowed dramatically. Last year, the country’s GDP growth reached only 2.7 percent. Brazil’s central bank expects growth for 2012 to reach only 1.9 percent, while Credit Suisse projects only 1.5 percent growth…Susan Kaufman Purcell is the director of the Center for Hemispheric Policy at the University of Miami.
Board Names Interim to Replace Robinson Temporarily
The Ledger
The State Board of Education this morning named an interim to replace Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson. Pam Stewart, the chancellor of public schools for the Florida Department of Education, will serve until the board can find a permanent replacement. Board Chair Kathleen Shanahan said Stewart was not interested in the job permanently and would not be applying.
Being White at a Black College: An Interview
Huffington Post
I recently met Rob Shorette, who is a Ph.D. student focused on American higher education, and found out that he when to an HBCU. Rob is a White male from California. Often people are curious about a White person’s decision to attend Florida A&M University, so I thought an interview about his decision and experience would be informative and enlightening…Marybeth Gasman is a Professor of Higher Education, University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education
Obama more likable than Romney in Florida, poll shows
Naples Daily News
“The likability factor is something that’s important to keep track of, and to keep track of over a period of time,” said Peter Bergerson, a political science professor at Florida Gulf Coast University in Estero.
MBA Alumni in the News: Aug. 2
Businessweek
Apple Comes Calling: Apple (AAPL) paid $350 million for AuthenTec, a fingerprint authentication company run by Larry Ciaccia, an MBA grad from the Florida Institute of Technology. The acquisition gives Apple a way to boost security for the iPad and iPhone…
Bath Salts In Miami-Dade Not Used As Much As Rumored, Say Local Experts
Huffington Post
“There’s a lot of sensationalism, and [the drugs are] getting a lot of press because most cases can be dramatic,” Dr. Daniel Castellanos of Florida International University told HuffPost Miami.
HIV Rages Among Black Gay Men
pride source.com
“For younger black MSMs, those under the age of 30, there was an HIV incidence rate of about 5.9 percent per year, or about three times the rate of white MSMs,” said Sheldon D. Fields, assistant dean for clinical affairs and health policy at Florida International University. “These rates are comparable to (what is seen in) countries in sub-Saharan Africa that are hardest hit by the epidemic.”
Klock brings business, academic experience to FIU
South Florida Business Journal
By hiring David R. Klock as the dean for its college of business, Florida International University is not only getting an accomplished academic, but a successful entrepreneur. Klock started teaching at the University of Florida in the mid-1970s…
Diverse history woven into RNC host city
Huffington Post
Two of them – Fort DeSoto Park and Caladesi Island – have topped the list from Stephen P. Leatherman, a Florida International University professor dubbed “Dr. Beach” for his annual rankings of the nation’s best coastlines.
Weigh in on the Chick-fil-A controversy online at noon
Broward Politics (blog)
Sun Sentinel.com is hosting an online chat on the Chick-fil-A controversy Thursday at noon. When marketing and politics collide: Will people stop eating at Chick-fil-A? features Florida International University marketing professor Kimberly Taylor…
FSC Professor Honored as Great Rosarian of the World
The Ledger
MALCOLM MANNERS, right, works on the roses that decorate Florida Southern College’scampus. He is a professor of citrus and horticultural science there…
State’s prison population declines
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
The declining prison population is a sign of a dramatic decrease in Florida’s overall crime rate, which peaked in 1991, but has declined by more than half since then, according to analysis by Florida State University’s College of Criminology and Criminal Justice. “The primary driver of the drop in crime in Florida over the last 20 years seemed to be the increasing incarceration rate,” said Bill Bales, head of FSU’s Center for Criminology and Public Policy Research. “It doesn’t seem to be economics. It’s not the level of police presence. It’s not demographics…
Florida a key to controlling Senate
Florida Today
Nelson, who was raised in Brevard County, “is a stable, long-term political leader in Florida and a winner,” said Lance deHaven-Smith, a political science professor at Florida State University. “He raises money well. He doesn’t make mistakes, generally …
B-Schools Send Women Up the Ranks
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Joan T.A. Gabel, 44, dean of University of Missouri’s Robert J. Trulaske, Sr. College of Business since 2010. Ms. Gabel was director of international relations and chair of the department of risk management/insurance, real estate and business law at Florida State University College of Business before moving to Missouri…
People in the News
Orlando Business Journal
Maureen Tremel, nursing professor at Seminole State College of Florida, was named a fellow of the National League for Nursing’s Academy of Nursing Education …
Now it’s time for change
ESPN
As Dr. Richard Lapchick, the director of the institute for diversity and ethics in sports at the University of Central Florida, who also writes for ESPN, put it ever so accurately in an interview in 2009, “I get called regularly when somebody is arrested. If a sexual assault involves a hockey or baseball player, the questions generally revolve around the player. When it involves a basketball or football player, they ask, ‘What is it about African-Americans?’”
Two Democrats vie to meet the winner of Mica-Adams
Orlando Sentinel
Nicholas Ruiz III is a self-described “old school liberal and progressive New Deal Democrat” who supports lowering the Social Security retirement age to 55 and increasing benefits by 20 percent…Ruiz is a 42-year-old adjunct professor of philosophy and humanities at the University of Central Florida who lives in New Smyrna Beach. He ran for Congress two years ago as a Green Party write-in candidate . A devotee of former President Franklin D…
Florida economy faces long road to recovery, report says
Orlando Sentinel
The University of Central Florida‘s latest economic forecast tries hard to find something nice to say about the state’s condition…”The unemployment rate has declined from its peak,” [Sean] Snaith said. “Jobs are being created, albeit sporadically and sparsely. The farther you look beyond the summer and into the forecast horizon, the brighter the outlook becomes.”
One man detained, two being sought after stabbing on UF campus
Gainesville Sun
The University of Florida Police Department has arrested two men and is hunting for a third who police say were involved in a stabbing early Thursday morning on the northern edge of the UF campus that sent two victims to a hospital. Ryan Dhookaran, 26, of Tampa, is being held on two counts of aggravated battery and one count of tampering with evidence, according to a UPD report. Kevin Persaud, 22, of Gainesville, is being held on two counts of accessory to commit aggravated battery and one count of tampering with evidence, the report stated. A sworn complaint has been filed against Jonathan Lebron, 23, of Lake Mary, for two counts of accessory to commit aggravated battery and one count of tampering with evidence…
NCAA moves closer to sweeping penalties overhaul
Huffington Post
Also in attendance was University of Miami President Donna Shalala, whose football and basketball programs were accused of major violations just a few weeks later. The Miami investigation is ongoing…
The Goods: Myths and realities about papaya
Florida Times-Union
Nancy Correa-Matos, a registered dietitian and faculty member in the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics Flagship Program at the University of North Florida, discusses papaya, a heart-healthy, anti-inflammatory and cancer-fighting fruit. Fact: Papaya contains three times more vitamin C than the daily recommendation. It’s a good source of vitamin A, folate, potassium, magnesium and fiber as well as rich in antioxidants and B vitamins. It’s also low in fat and calories; one-half cup of ripe papaya provides 26 calories and less than 1 gram of fat.
Pair of Democrats seek District 5 Manatee County Commission seat
Bradenton Herald
James Golden, a Bradenton pastor and former two-term Bradenton City Council member, is hoping his experience will prevail in the primary election Aug. 14 against Frank Archino, a retired U.S. Navy senior chief petty officer… Archino is a student at the University of South Florida and plans to major in political science and U.S. government. He earned his associate degree at State College of Florida.
Are Governors Who Run for Higher Office on Thin Ice?
Governing (blog)
Not only did Bush have a largely successful tenure as governor, but it should have shocked no one that he might one day run for higher office, said Susan MacManus, a University of South Florida political scientist…
Scott: $5 million, 100 jobs on the way
Florida Today
That was second only to Orange County, which had $4.38 billion, said Rick Harper, executive director of the Office of Economic Development and Engagement at the University of West Florida in Pensacola…
Releases and Web Stories
FAU Set To Break Ground On New Dorm
BocaNewsNow.com
BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) — Florida Atlantic University is growing so quickly that it needs additional living space. On August 6th, the school will break ground on a new 614-bed residence hall at the northeast corner of parking lot 24 on FAU’s Boca Campus. The dorm will be seven floors and house freshmen and FAU’s first Faculty-in-Residence program…
GrowFL Receives Grant From The State Of Florida, Department Of Economic …
U.S. Politics Today
ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – The Florida Economic Gardening Institute at the University of Central Florida (GrowFL) announced today that $2M in funding, authorized during the 2012/2013 Legislative session, has been finalized by the State of Florida. The GrowFL program, originally piloted in 2009, will continue to cultivate entrepreneurial growth through support and funding by the Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO). Since its inception in 2009, GrowFL has worked with hundreds of second-stage companies providing assistance under the economic development methodology known as Economic Gardening.
New Funding Enhances Henry Mancini Institute at University of Miami Frost …
MarketWatch (press release)
CORAL GABLES, Fla., Aug 02, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music at the University of Miami has received a $500000 pledge from Los Angeles-based music philanthropist Virginia “Ginny” Mancini. This gift, part of …
Global Sport Business Association Introduces First Conference at Sea
MarketWatch (press release)
Cruising in international waters helps accomplish all of the Association’s goals, allowing attendees to enjoy more quality time with their colleagues,” said Warren Whisenant, associate professor,University of Miami;
