State University System
Two FAMU anti-hazing panel members resign, lash trustees in sign-offs
MiamiHerald.com (blog)
The drama at Florida A&M months after a drum major’s hazing death continues. The latest: Two experts whom FAMU trustees recruited to research and recommend anti-hazing practices have left the seven-member committee — just as they warned. Former U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Craig Robinson and clinical psychologist Na’im Akbar resigned from the panel last week in pointed letters that defend their request to operate in private.
FAMU Clothesline Project Calling Attention to Sexual Assault Awareness Month
WCTV
Here at FAMU, that federal report is the Clery Report which shows sexual assault is down from 2008 to 2010. But no matter what the number, students and staff say one rape is one too many. To show their support they have events scheduled all week to support Sexual Assault Awareness Month…
Obama, college republicans, the nanny and more
Crowley Political Report
Let’s hear it for the College Republicans of Florida Atlantic University who plan to wave signs during President Obama’s visit to the campus Tuesday. In an email encouraging folks to join them at the protest site – Lot 17 at noon – folks are asked: …
Obama to fundraise in South Florida on Tuesday
MiamiHerald.com
The president will make a speech at Florida Atlantic University, then raise money for his reelection campaign in as many as three events…
Obama visit will raise FAU’s profile beyond South Florida
Sun-Sentinel
It’s a school that often struggles to be noticed outside of South Florida. But on Tuesday, Florida Atlantic University will get an unexpected boost from the nation’s top leader. When President Obama gives a nationally televised speech on tax policy at the FAU Arena at 2:55 p.m., about 50 cheering students dressed in FAU shirts will be behind him. And thousands more will be in the audience…
Obama coming to Florida to talk about ‘Buffett Rule’
Tampabay.com
President Barack Obama’s speech Tuesday afternoon at Florida Atlantic University will press the case for the “Buffett Rule,” a proposal that would require the wealthy to pay at least 30 percent of their …
FAU prepares for President Obama visit
WPBF West Palm Beach
President Barack Obama will visit Florida Atlantic University and attend a luncheon in Palm Beach Gardens on Tuesday. Officials at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton are busy getting ready for a presidential visit. President Barack Obama is …
President Obama to speak on economy at Florida Atlantic University
WPTV
It didn’t cost her anything, but for FAU employee Brittany Ross, the ticket to President Obama’s speech at Florida Atlantic University Tuesday, is priceless. “I have it and will guard it with my life,” says Ross. She is one of 3500 students, …
Will presidential visit snarl traffic?
WPTV
President Barack Obama visits Florida Atlantic University Tuesday to give a speech. YouReporter Linda took a photo at the Belvedere Shell station Monday afternoon of what appeared to be some of the limos that will be used to transport the president and…
Florida: Pro-Palestinian group ‘evicts’ Jewish students
Ynetnews
More than 200 Jewish students attending Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, were surprised to find “eviction notices” posted to their dorm room doors on Friday. The students later found out that the fake notices were placed by the Students for Justice in Palestine…
Ninjas looking for fame invade FIU
MiamiHerald.com
Students at Florida International University’s Modesto Maidique campus pulled a couple of all-nighters last week watching aspiring ninjas complete an obstacle course. That’s right — aspiring ninjas. Hundreds of them were on campus March 27-28 as part of the G4 show American Ninja Warrior. By the last day of filming, 30 competitors from the Southeast and Northeast regions of the United States were left to tackle an intense, nine-part obstacle course…
New report ranks Florida high in number of graduating Hispanics
WTXL ABC 27
Florida International University ranks #1 in the nation for the amount of bachelor and master degrees it awards Hispanics. FIU also ranks 10th for professional degrees and 19th in doctoral degrees awarded to Latinos during the 2009-10 school year…
Some surprises among county’s list of most dangerous intersections
Gainesville Sun
… period show that such intersections as Northwest 34th Street and Northwest 39th Avenue in northern Gainesville and West University Avenue and Northwest 22nd Street near the University of Florida campus are among the 10 most hazardous in the county.
UCF joins better connectivity movement
Bizjournals.com (blog)
An agenda item from the university’s finance and facilities committee shows it is entering a contract with AT&T whereas the cellular provider will fund, install and manage a new antenna system on campus. The three-year project consists of installing a new antenna system that will service 28 UCF and Central Florida Research Park buildings, the UCF basketball arena and the Bright House Networks Stadium…
UNF students earn top honors
Florida Times-Union (blog)
Students in the School of Computing at the University of North Florida recently brought home several awards in the 17th Annual Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) National Collegiate Conference held in San Antonio, Texas.
Contested student housing plans go forward
Pensacola News Journal
A controversial plan to construct two student housing complexes in a neighborhood near the University of West Florida passed its first test Monday.
State College System
Fund established for Edison student killed in crash
Naples Daily News
A fund has been established to help the family of Jaime Lee DeSprito, an Edison State College student who died Saturday in an early morning car crash. DeSprito, 19, of Fort Myers, died on the scene of the accident, in which she missed a stop sign at …
District struggles to fulfill vow to future teachers
Tbo.com
To date, the district has raised about $18000 for those students — all enrolled in the Urban Teaching Academy — with a matching amount from Hillsborough Community College. That low combined total has some people wondering if there will be enough …
IRSC Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship grand opening is Wednesday in …
TCPalm
Indian River State College‘s Brown Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship includes a removable house, solar farm and nuclear flow loop simulator — minus the nuclear materials. The public is invited to a grand opening event for the $21.5 million, 65,000-square-foot building at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the IRSC main campus on Virginia Avenue and 35th Street…
Independent College System
Man carjacked, locked in trunk
Daytona Beach News-Journal
A Bethune Cookman University student trying to help a person who claimed his car was broken down was carjacked at gun point and locked in the trunk of his own car, Daytona Beach police said Monday. Jonathan Pigford, 21, of Virginia, was forced into the trunk of his car after musical instruments belonging to the university were thrown out, a Daytona Beach police report said.
Florida Hospital to expand College of Health campus and programs
Orlando Sentinel
Citing a need to educate more health professionals for the future, Florida Hospital officials today announced plans for a $25 million expansion of its College of Health Sciences on the main Orlando campus near downtown. A ceremonial groundbreaking will take place this morning…
Obama in Florida
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
The last time the President was in Florida, he delivered a scorching attack on Republicans in a speech at the University of Miami over the issue of high energy prices – so we’ll see if this speech at Florida Atlantic University registers some more …
For Profit and Career Colleges
For-Profit Colleges: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old
Huffington Post
…If you know that Full Sail is a very expensive school of, at best, a mixed quality, then you might be concerned about why the University of Florida would lend its prestige to its for-profit neighbor. Such worries would be magnified by the news, announced in late March, that UF was naming its new undergraduate business school after major donor Bill Heavener, the CEO of, yes, Full Sail University. If all of this sounds familiar, it’s because Full Sail is the same school praised late last year by Mitt Romney as the future of higher education – while Heavener and other Full Sail executives have contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Romney campaign and Super PAC. Heavener apparently likes it when he can get something for his money…
Yip Yap: Noted and Quoted FLHE Voices from Around the State
Scott should veto polytechnic
News Chief
When state Sen. J.D. Alexander of Lake Wales undertakes a quest, controversy is his common companion. That was the case when Alexander, the powerful chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, pushed through a bill declaring the University of South Florida‘s Polk County polytechnic campus an independent university…
John Romano: Consider the students before deciding on independence for USF Poly
Tampabay.com
That means the budget concerns of University of South Florida leaders are close to being put to rest. And that means legislators are all sleeping soundly. But has anyone stopped to ask what that means for USF Poly students? “I haven’t found anyone on …
Miami Marlins’ Ozzie Guillen in political firestorm over Fidel Castro remarks
Bradenton Herald
Uva de Aragon, associate director of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University, agreed that Guillen’s remarks were insensitive, but added that many people have fueled the controversy to suit their own motives.
Vern Buchanan says Obama will no longer “enforce” DOMA
PolitiFact
DOMA raises the unanswered question of whether Obama and his administration have the legal right to choose which of Congress’ laws they defend and which ones they don’t — a question before the U.S. Supreme Court in a separate case, said Bob Jarvis, a constitutional law professor at Nova Southeastern University…
Conference Focuses On STEM Education in Florida Universities
The Ledger
According to Polk State College President Eileen Holden, it’s important to start exposing students to STEM activities and learning at an early age. ”You don’t wake up a senior in high school and say ‘I’m going to major in STEM in college,’ ” she said…
Stetson official to speak at PR luncheon
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Greg Caroll, vice president of marketing at Stetson University in DeLand, is the guest speaker at today’s luncheon meeting of the Volusia-Flagler Chapter of the Florida Public Relations Association…
Grand jury canceled in Florida teen’s death
Los Angeles Times
Grand juries are sometimes used as a way for prosecutors in high-profile cases to avoid “political fallout” by shifting responsibility, said Charles Rose, a Stetson University College of Law professor and director of Stetson’s Center for Excellence in Advocacy…
Creative marketing ideas help students, needy critters
Gainesville Sun
University of Florida marketing professor Stephen LaBarbera is fond of saying that there’s nothing harder than asking someone for money…
Trayvon Martin case: Special prosecutor will skip the grand jury
Los Angeles Times
“Whatever she decided, it is going to be controversial,” University of Florida law professor Kenneth B. Nunn told The Times…
Of lice and men
St. Augustine Record
David Reed, Ph.D., associate curator of mammals at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the University of Florida campus, is an evolutionary biologist who studies host/parasite evolution.
Autism linked to obesity in pregnancy
Science News
The new research “sheds light on potential risk factors for autism and underscores the importance for people who are pregnant — or trying to get pregnant — of controlling their risks,” says epidemiologist Hannah Gardener of the University of Miami.
Fla. prosecutor eschews grand jury, will weigh charges in teen’s slaying
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Ms. Corey has filed more charges, taken many more cases to trial and won more convictions than her predecessor, according to Michael Hallett, chairman of the University of North Florida‘s criminology department, who recently published a study of her record. She is less likely to dismiss charges and is particularly tough on repeat offenders, he found…
In foreclosures, Occupy groups see a unifying cause
Baltimore Sun
“The Occupy movement seems to have lost some of its punch,” said Susan MacManus, a University of South Florida political science professor. “Focusing on an issue that affects the working class and leaves people feeling alienated is potentially a good …
Releases and Web Stories
Flagler professor, veteran journalist and Forum founder Ostrowidzki dies
ReadMedia (press release)
AUGUSTINE, FL (04/09/2012)(readMedia)– Victor Ostrowidzki, Flagler College’s director of the Forum on Government and Public Policy and a longtime professor at the college, died on Saturday after battling melanoma. Ostrowidzki, 80, was a veteran …
(BPRW) Florida Memorial University President to Join Miami-Dade …
Black PR Wire
(April 9, 2012) – Florida Memorial University President Dr. Henry Lewis, III, was unanimously accepted to the Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce (M-DCC) Board …
Serving Our Community
University of South Florida
(April 9, 2012) – The Corporation for National and Community Service and the US Department of Education has named the University of South Florida to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, which recognizes higher education …
