State University System
On-campus FAU treatment center aims to get students back on track
Sun-Sentinel
…The center will be located at The Research Park at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, which is adjacent to FAU‘s college campus. The center will provide treatment and follow-up services to students and other young adults who have had their studies disrupted because of alcohol or drug abuse…
Lee Memorial Health System residency program receives accreditation
The News-Press
The program, in partnership with the Florida State University College of Medicine, expects to eventually produce six new physicians a year…
Scott maintenance veto puzzles FSU leaders
Tallahassee.com
Officials at Florida State University are still trying to figure out why Gov. Rick Scott vetoed $5 million for critical maintenance at FSU when he signed off on the state budget Monday. The Legislature had approved the money, with the House initially providing FSU with $10 million before the two chambers agreed on $5 million. But Scott, saying the funding was not requested until the third year of the Public Education Capital Outlay (PECO) project list for the State University System, vetoed the item…
FSU: Autism Detection, Disease Biosensors To Move From Lab To Market
WCTV
Four innovative research projects have been awarded a total of $158,000 by the Florida State University Research Foundation to help move their discoveries from the laboratory to the marketplace…
University of Central Florida Arena getting new name
Orlando Business Journal
Thanks to a $3.95 million donation to the University of Central Florida over the next seven years, the UCF Arena will now be known as the CFE Federal Credit Union Arena, or just the CFE Arena…
UCF gets approval for first residency program in internal medicine
Orlando Business Journal
The University of Central Florida College of Medicine got its first residency program approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education May 22…
Facebook Use by Hospital Workers Increases When ER Is Busy: Study
eWeek
Emergency room personnel at an academic medical facility spent a lot of time on Facebook when the ER became busy, according to a University of Florida study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research…
Students dig for Jacksonville artifacts
WJXT Jacksonville
Students at the University of North Florida are digging into the past to learn more about the people who lived in Jacksonville a LONG…LONG time ago. Anthropology students are finding artifacts in the Theodore Roosevelt Preserve…
Scott veto means USF students costs only rising slightly
Tbo.com
A USF trustees’ group today approved work plans for the Tampa, St. Petersburg and Sarasota-Manatee campuses that reflect some slight hikes in fees, but no change to base or differential tuition.
USF eyes degree programs for termination
Tampabay.com
The University of South Florida has taken it a step further, targeting expendable degrees before someone at the state level does it for them. On Thursday, the school’s Board of Trustees identified 17 degrees that will likely go away…
State College System
Daytona State debuts children’s theater with ‘The Jungle Book’
Daytona Times
In July, the Mike Curb College of Music, Entertainment and Art at Daytona State College will bring to life tales from “The Jungle Book” by Rudyard Kipling…
Gulf Power Partners with GCSC on Solar Power Project
WTVY, Dothan
Gulf Coast State College and the State of Florida invested $35 million to develop the Advanced Technology Center, a 93,000-square-foot facility geared toward innovation and sustainable economic growth…
‘Boot Camp’ helps young felons become productive citizens
MiamiHerald.com
He graduated from the 3rd Platoon in 1995 and he says that a Boot Camp-sponsored tour of Miami Dade College is what changed his life forever. After completing Boot Camp, he enrolled in classes at the college…
Notable National Report:
Community Colleges: Separate and Unequal
U.S. News & World Report
Eduardo Padron is president of Miami-Dade College and Anthony Marx is president of the New York Public Library and former president of Amherst College. They are co-chairs of the Century Foundation Task Force on Community Colleges.
Community colleges are falling behind
Washington Post (blog)
…The trouble is that America’s community colleges are underfunded and underperforming. While research universities are increasing spending at a rapid pace, community colleges are actually spending less. In 2000, community colleges spent $13,285 per full-time student, in 2010 dollars; in 2010, that was down to $12,667, a 4.7 percent decline. And that was after a 40.7 percent spike in community college tuition, without which that spending decline would have been even more severe. Now, the Century Foundation has released a major new report that suggests the problems with our community colleges go much deeper than funding problems. It was drafted by a task force chaired by Anthony Marx, the president of the New York Public Library and former president of Amherst College, and Eduardo Padrón, president of Miami Dade College, a former community college that now offers four-year degrees and is the second largest higher educational institution in the United States…
Independent Colleges and Universities
Barry University Seeks Partnerships with Vendors to Make Graduates …
The Cardinal Newman Society
Miami-based Catholic Barry University is tapping into college vendors to help make sure students are prepared to enter the job market once they graduate…
Tiny Flagler College wins Enactus national championship in Kansas City
Kansas City Star
After two days of tense competition involving 155 college and university teams, Flagler College in St. Augustine, Fla., on Thursday was crowned national champion at the Enactus U.S. Exposition and National Competition in Kansas City…
PBA camp aims to make science fun
Palm Beach Post
But Palm Beach Atlantic University is trying to change that by making science fun and cool. Once again the university is hosting Science Days at PBA…
NEW: Does Sarasota do enough to support local artists?
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
For a city that markets itself as an arts and culture hub, Sarasota neglects local artists, according to a new documentary. ”SRQ Tic Tac Toe” was created by Ringling College of Art and Design graduates. The approximately 40-minute film, which will air this weekend at City Hall, focuses on a handful of prominent pieces in the city, including the statues “Unconditional Surrender” and “Complexus” near the bayfront, and “A Community Within Reach” in Fredd Atkins Park…
1st Game Getting Closer for Warner
The Ledger
He’s got a new football team to build at Warner University. He’s recruiting players. He’s already thinking about the upcoming schedule.
Yip Yap: Noted and Quoted FLHE Voices from Around the Web
Wyatt wins lawsuit against B-CU
Florida Courier
DAYTONA BEACH – Former Bethune Cookman-University head football coach Alvin “Shine” Wyatt, Sr. won his breach of contract lawsuit against the Daytona Beach-based school and has been awarded almost $770,000…
FAU’s acting president takes helm after controversies, looks to raise long-frozen faculty pay
Palm Beach Post
Dennis Crudele, acting president of Florida Atlantic University after the resignation last week of embattled Mary Jane Saunders, on Thursday defended Saunders’ advocacy for accepting a donation from a private prison group. But he made it a point to say he wanted the administration to be “more responsive, more precise and more transparent” during his tenure at the helm…
Sandy-slammed shore recovers, tops America’s best beach list
Today.com (blog)
Main Beach is on the list of Top 10 Beaches produced annually by coastal expert Stephen P. Leatherman, also known as “Dr. Beach, ” director of Florida International University’s Laboratory for Coastal Research…
Richard Fallon, FSU’s “Mr. Theatre,” dies at 89.
Tallahassee.com
Richard Fallon, the one-time radio actor who built the Florida State University School of Theatre into a nationally renowned program, has died. Fallon, 89, died at Big Bend Hospice early Thursday morning. Fallon came to FSU in 1957 as an associate professor of theatre, when the program was only a division within the university’s Department of Speech. In 1969, theater became a full department with Fallon as chair. In 1973, Fallon became dean of the newly created School of Theatre…
Steve Martin and Florida State have a long history together
Tallahassee Democrat (blog)
Steve Martin was a young comedy writer still trying carve out a career as a stand-up act when he performed for the first time at Florida State University in mid-October 1973. Sporting half a beard, Martin appeared as the emcee at the Homecoming Pow Wow in Doak Campbell Stadium. He kept the crowd warmed up between acts on a bill that boasted Komar the Indian Fakir, Norbu the Almost Human Gorilla, Henri La Mothe the Human Pelican, the band Flash Cadillac and His Continental Kids and, the big draw of the show, stripper Tempest Storm. Tickets cost $1 for students and $2 for the public to attend….
What’s ‘Florida Culture’? Folk Fest To Include Hip Hop, Graffiti Art, Chinese …
WFSU
Zhang has been studying under world-renowned Chinese musician Haiqiong Deng, a professor at Florida State University. They’ll be playing a harp-like instrument called a zheng, which Deng said, is the most popular instrument in China…
Nova Southeastern president, board take a dive –- slideshow
South Florida Business Journal
Nova Southeastern University President George Hanbury II and his board of ambassadors got an up close look at the coral reef restoration the university’s Oceanographic Center is conducting. On May 16, Hanbury and some board members took a dive off the coast of Broward County to explore the coral reefs the university is working on. Richard Dodge, dean of NSU’s Oceanographic Center, gave them a tour…
Apple’s $1.1 billion worth of tax breaks it doesn’t expect to get away with
Quartz
And that’s pretty likely, says Donna Bobek Schmitt, an associate professor specializing in tax at the University of Central Florida. She has had students track down Apple’s gross unrecognized tax benefits as part of a class exercise…
Garcia’s remark again roils racial waters in sports
MyCentralJersey.com
“I think he probably felt that the people he was with would not be offended by it and would think it was humorous,” says Richard Lapchick, director of the DeVos Sport Business Management program at the University of Central Florida.
UF helping develop insecticide to target malaria-carrying mosquitoes
HealthCanal.com
In malaria-ridden parts of Africa, mosquito netting protects people from being infected while they sleep; now, a University of Florida entomologist wants to improve the netting by coating it with insecticide toxic only to mosquitoes. The insecticide would work by interfering with an enzyme found in the nervous systems of mosquitoes and many other organisms, called acetylcholinesterase. Existing insecticides target the enzyme but affect a broad range of species, said entomologist Jeff Bloomquist, a professor in UF’s Emerging Pathogens Institute and its Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences…
Anti-cancer Drug Viewed as Possible Alzheimer’s Treatment Doesn’t Work
HealthNewsDigest.com
David Borchelt, Ph.D., a professor of neuroscience affiliated with the Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida, emphasized the importance of verifying promising research results before investing in clinical studies or testing potential therapies in people. Bexarotene has known side effects that include effects on the liver, blood and other metabolic systems…
Sociologist: Income levels of Mariel migrants lower than earlier Cuban exiles
MiamiHerald.com
Such loans are a thing of the past, said Portes, a sociologist at Princeton and the University of Miami who has written extensively about the waves of Cuban migrations before and after the 1980 Mariel boatlift…
UNF’s Coggin College honors business leaders
Florida Times-Union
With each honoree extolling the value of community service, three Jacksonville business executives and a globe-trotting University of North Florida professor were honored as distinguished business leaders by the Coggin College of Business on Wednesday. The Prime F. Osborn III award, in its 16th year, is designed to recognize the careers of local leaders. This year, it went to Gary Chartrand, Hugh Greene, Robert Frankel and Anna Lopez Brosche…
Heard a good corporate recruting joke lately? Jacksonville has one
Business Journal (blog)
As told by John Delaney, president of the University of North Florida, who moderated a Jax Chamber panel this morning at the Marriot Southpoint. When Delaney was mayor, he would go on corporate recruiting trips to convince CEO’s to open operations in Jacksonville. When he asked them if they had any problems with the concept of opening an office in Jacksonville, the reply was: ”We have a big problem with Jacksonville. When we tell people they have to move there, nobody wants to go, and after they go there for a couple of years, nobody wants to leave.”
Republicans Scramble to Save Governor in Florida Battleground
Yahoo! News
“Republicans want to hold on for dear life to the governor’s mansion, and Democrats would like nothing more than to take it back,” said University of South Florida political-science professor Susan MacManus.
Economist Challenges Estimates on Bay Area Super Bowl Benefits
KQED (blog)
“The primary beneficiaries are the owners of the scarce hotel space rather than the community at large,” concluded Philip Porter, a University of South Florida economist, in looking at “mega-sports events.”
Releases and Web Stories
BioFront Technologies Receives Funding Through Florida Institute Seed Capital Accelerator Program
Fort Mills Times
Company Based on Technology Developed at Florida State University
GAINESVILLE & BOCA RATON, Fla. – The Institute for the Commercialization of Public Research (the Institute) announced today that it has finalized a funding agreement with BioFront Technologies, producers of diagnostic kits and reagents that detect viral and allergenic proteins for food safety and infectious disease markets. Working with Florida’s research universities and institutions to support new company creation and job growth, the Institute’s Seed Capital Accelerator Program bridges early funding gaps, requiring recipients to raise private matching investment which enables them to reach critical development milestones and get to market quicker…
Freedom Steel Buildings Partners with Lynn University for Internship Program
SBWire (press release)
This summer, Lynn University has provided Freedom Steel Buildings with several students who will be conducting their internships to understand what it takes to be successful in a growing business within a dynamic sector…
Codesmart(TM) Group’s CODESMART(TM) UNIVERSITY ICD-10 Courses and Consulting Products Named the Exclusive Partner of ICD-10 Services Through Polk State College
GlobeNewswire
NEW YORK, May 23, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — First Independence Corp. (OTCQB:FICF), with its subsidiary, The Codesmart Group, Inc. (collectively, “CodeSmart”), a premier ICD-10 education and solutions group that offers CODESMART™ UNIVERSITY, its on-line education solution and customizable training solutions, announces today that its CODESMART™ UNIVERSITY product is the exclusive strategic partner for ICD-10 education and consulting services to Polk State College, a Florida State school, which will privately label CODESMART™ UNIVERSITY and exclusively market and distribute all CodeSmart products to their students…
Four Students Graduate from SF Apprenticeship Program
Santa Fe College
Congratulations to the following electrical apprentices who graduated from the Builders Association of North Central Florida’s apprenticeship program at Santa Fe College on Thursday, May 16: Michael McCann, Travis Sullivan and Adam Littauer, who all work for Preston Link Electric Inc. and Ethan Swindel, who works for Custom Electric of Gainesville, Inc. (Ethan was also named Most Outstanding Apprentice.)
