Special Section: Blue Ribbon Task Force on State Higher Ed Reform coverage
FSU faculty a ‘farm team’ for out-of-state schools
MiamiHerald.com
Florida State University President Eric Barron says budget cuts are making his faculty a “farm team” for out-of-state schools.
Florida universities re-grouping after tuition defeats
Orlando Sentinel (blog)
As a panel appointed by Gov. Rick Scott to review higher education in Florida met for a third time Monday, state universities were plotting their next moves after last week’s unprecedented rejection of a series of proposed tuition increases.
Barron: FSU faculty a ‘farm team’ for out-of-state schools
Tbo.com
The head of Florida State University told Gov. Rick Scott’s higher education reform panel Monday that budget cuts are making his faculty a “farm team” for out-of-state schools…
Florida universities examine options about tuition rebuffs
The News-Press
As a panel appointed by Gov. Rick Scott to review higher education in Florida met for a third time Monday, state universities were plotting their next moves after last week’s unprecedented rejection of a series of proposed tuition increases.
Gov’s higher ed task force considers higher tuition options
WFSU
A panel convened by the Governor met Monday to continue talks on higher education accountability and funding. The group’s meeting follows decisions last week on tuition increases for the state’s public universities…
State University System
FGCU plays the layoff card
Lehigh Acres News Star
FGCU might have to issue the college’s first layoffs if a state board doesn’t reconsider its decision to downsize a tuition increase…
FGCU to appeal decision on tuition
The News-Press
FGCU will appeal a Florida Board of Governors decision that undercut its proposal for a 14 percent tuition increase…
Florida Gulf Coast U to Appeal for Higher Tuition Hike
Sunshine State News (blog)
Florida Gulf Coast University will ask the Florida Board of Governors to reconsider the 12 percent tuition increase approved last week. The Fort Myers-based state university had asked for a 14 percent increase…
Florida Gulf Coast University appeals board’s decision to approve reduced tuition increase
The Republic
Florida Gulf Coast University is appealing a reduced tuition increase. The Board of Governors last week agreed to let the Fort Myers school raise tuition by 12 percent this fall. The university asked for a 14 percent increase…
Judge blocks Fla. law barring govt. contracts for companies that do …
Washington Post
A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked Florida from enforcing a new state law barring companies from bidding on state and local government contracts if they or any affiliates also do business in Cuba or Syria…Odebrecht has engineering, construction and related activities around the world, including work on such major Florida projects as Miami’s American Airlines Arena, the Nassau Sound Bridge in Jacksonville and the new Florida International University football stadium…
US Supreme Court Lets Cuba Travel Case Stand
WBFS
Without comment, the nation’s high court let stand a 2006 Florida law restricting travel to Cuba that was challenged by the Florida International University faculty senate and individual professors who contend that it improperly infringes on the federal government’s power to make decisions about foreign policy…
Thomas Jefferson’s family left mark on FSU, early Orlando
Orlando Sentinel
If you’ve visited Florida State University in Tallahassee in the last decade, you may have seen a bronze figure in old-fashioned garb seated on a bench near Westcott, FSU’s administration building. He’s the creation of sculptor Edward Jonas, and he took his place on that bench in 2002, near a plaque that identifies him as Francis Wayles Eppes, “grandson of President Thomas Jefferson and founder of Florida State University.”
FSU to stand pat with tuition increase
Tallahassee.com
Florida State University President Eric Barron has abandoned his plan to appeal Thursday’s tuition decision by the Board of Governors, which rejected FSU’s request for a 15-percent hike in differential tuition and instead approved a 13-percent increase.
UCF to buy WMFE license for $3.3 million for PBS
Bizjournals.com
The University of Central Florida has agreed to purchase the license and equipment of WMFE to continue to broadcast PBS locally.
UCF trustees OK buying public radio license
Daytona Beach News-Journal
The University of Central Florida launched WUCF-TV last July in partnership with Brevard Community College to offer continued PBS access after WMFE, which …
UCF board votes to buy Channel 24′s license
Orlando Sentinel (blog)
The University of Central Florida is one step closer to gaining the license for television’s Channel 24 from WMFE…
USF St. Petersburg chancellor is stepping down
Tampabay.com
Three and a half years after she was tapped to lead the University of South Florida St. Petersburg campus, Margaret Sullivan is stepping down from her post. Though she was expected to stay on through at least summer 2013, Sullivan, 68, said she has decided to leave in August. The school is in a good place, she told the Tampa Bay Times on Monday morning, and she is ready to move on…
State College System
Florida college system ranks among top producers of associate degrees
Bizjournals.com
Community College Week’s Top 100 Associate Degree Producers report ranked the Florida College System among the top producers of associate degrees in the nation in a range of categories for the tenth year in a row…
Florida students lobby for student loan rate freeze
Sun-Sentinel
Students and administrators from Palm Beach State College and Miami Dade College on Monday voiced their concerns about the imminent rise in new Stafford student loan rates…The South Florida students were part of a media conference call sponsored by the Florida Public Interest Research Group, which advocates for consumers.
Seminole State ranks among top 100 of two-year schools
Mysanfordherald
Community College Week has released its Top 100 list, and Seminole State College of Florida is once again among the top 100 producers of two-year degrees in the nation.
TCC student-teachers leave for sister-school in Taiwan
WTXL ABC 27
This summer, six Tallahassee Community College students will be part of the sister school program in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Independent Colleges and Universities
Seminar at Embry-Riddle focuses on US-Europe air traffic control
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Educators and business leaders from nine countries are at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University this week sharing ideas on how to improve air traffic control in the United States and Europe. The first International Conference for Interdisciplinary Science for Air Traffic Management is meeting through Wednesday and includes researchers from the United States, Canada, France, Great Britain, India, Japan, Netherlands, Spain and Thailand.
Southeastern Unveils New Guided Tour Visitors Can Take on the …
The Ledger
Parents and prospective students interested in checking out Southeastern University now have the ability to go on a guided tour without paying for ..
Yip Yap: Noted and Quoted FLHE Voices from Around the State
Cerabino: Removal of ‘threatened’ status bad news for Florida black bears
Palm Beach Post
Especially when you consider Florida 2060: A Population distribution Scenario for the State of Florida, a University of Florida research project that forecasts the state’s human population will double in the next 50 years. And those projected 18 million additional Florida residents will mean that about 7 million acres of the state’s undeveloped land — about the size of Vermont — will be developed into more suburban sprawl, the project contends…
Jones: Local lessons for Florida’s STEM challenges
Orlando Sentinel
The recent discussions across Florida around science, technology, engineering and math education have been healthy and important for our state’s future economic competitiveness. Like the rest of the country, we are feeling the effects of a lack of so-called STEM skills. Students are not graduating in science, technology, engineering and math in the numbers needed to drive the innovation economy Floridians aspire to. Much of the debate has been focused on our university system…Ernest Jones is IBM‘s senior location executive for Orlando and a mechanical engineer.
SCOTUS leaves Florida’s research travel ban to ‘terrorist’ nations intact
MiamiHerald.com (blog)
The court decision deals a “devastating blow” to Florida universities, said Howard Simon of the Florida chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union which challenged the law, along with faculty at Florida International University, the University of South Florida and the University of Florida. He predicted it will lead to an exodus of faculty and research dollars from Florida schools. “The research is not going to end. It will just be done by universities elsewhere outside of Florida,’’ Simon said. “It will keep us in an enforced state of ignorance.”
Embry-Riddle women place 2nd overall in cross-country air race
Daytona Beach News-Journal
A student and a graduate of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University finished second overall in a four-day all-female cross-country air race. The Embry-Riddle team from the Daytona Beach campus, which included Marisha Falk and Danielle Erlichman, won No. 1 in the collegiate category and second overall for the 2012 all-women’s Air Race Classic, according to the university…
Sunita Williams To Return To ISS As Commander Of Expedition 33
RedOrbit
Indian-American female astronaut, Sunita Williams, who spent a record 6 months aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in 2006, will be making a triumphant return to the orbiting outpost, when she, along with two others, launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July 14, reports the Press Trust of India…Williams, who received a master’s degree from the Florida Institute of Technology in 1995, holds three records for females in space…
Hookah bars attract fans and health concerns in South Florida
WPTV
“This is incredibly disturbing from a public health perspective,” said Dr. Wasim Maziak, who heads FIU‘s epidemiology department. “Even with the trendiness aspect, we are shocked by the spread of water pipe. It truly is an epidemic.” He said studies conducted by his lab show the level of carbon monoxide inhaled during an hour-long hookah session can be equivalent to smoking more than 100 cigarettes. Maziac said many people inaccurately believe hookah is less dangerous than cigarettes, that the water in the pipes filter out harmful chemicals.
US Supreme Court decision likely to benefit Florida inmates who …
Orlando Sentinel
“It brings the law into line with science and with what every parent of a teenager has known since the beginning of time: Children think and act differently than adults do,” said Paolo Annino, a Florida State University law professor and advocate for juveniles in prison…
PCPD using new tech to analyze wrecks
The News Herald
The software, TraCS (Traffic and Criminal Software), is designed to save money and lives by eliminating paperwork for crash investigators and increasing the speed with which traffic crash data gets to decision makers in Tallahassee, said Amy Cochran, a TraCS program coordinator at Florida State University.
Hillsborough property appraiser often out of office
Tampabay.com
Hillsborough County Property Appraiser Rob Turner is out of the office more often than he has previously acknowledged. By the end of this year, he will have missed at least 88 work days since the beginning of 2011 — about four month’s worth — traveling on behalf of his professional association, teaching classes or attending conferences…Hillsborough Community College records show Turner was paid $2,200 for a class he taught there in March.
JU flying teams complete air race
Florida Times-Union
Jacksonville University‘s Team Snoopy and Team Red Baroness successfully completed the 2012 Air Race Classic, both pilot/co-pilot teams flying their Cirrus SR-2s. Katja Jourdan and Renee Brilhante of Team Red Baroness placed 33rd in the women-only airplane race between Lake Havasu City Airport in Arizona and Clermont County Airport in Batavia, Ohio.
Hooters pageant winner from Boca Raton persevered
Sun-Sentinel
When [Amanda] Jemini started at Hooters in Boca Raton more than three years ago, her goals were simple: earn money for her studies at Palm Beach Community College and hang out with some of her best friends, who had recommended working at the restaurant.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Jacksonville: Be ‘open’ to gays
Los Angeles Times
[Archbishop Desmond] Tutu was a scholar-in-residence at the University of North Florida for one semester in 2003. Tutu said he recently heard about the city’s struggle over adding “sexual orientation” to its human rights ordinances. ”Knowing your city, I was shocked that these words were not already in this legislation. But knowing that they are not, I would urge you to act expeditiously in making sure that your city is open to all,” he wrote.
Taking a step to help Haiti: UF student created nonprofit that donates …
Gainesville Sun
Peeking up from under the lime-green cloth of Caryn Barry‘s favorite pair of Vans sneakers are the words “De semel pam a semel paou” tattooed on her left foot…Barry, a second-year business major at the University of Florida, is president of the charity she started in her hometown DeBary, about 12 miles south of DeLand…
‘Frontline’ explores dental crisis in Florida, country
Orlando Sentinel
Dr. Frank Catalanotto, a pediatric dentist at the University of Florida in Gainesville, says that 1,200 Florida children each year get their dental care under general anesthesia in the hospital. ”Only 10 percent of Florida dentists participate in the Medicaid program,” Catalanotto adds. “So the result is that only 25 percent of Medicaid-eligible children get any kind of dental care. And by any kind of dental care, I mean one visit a year.”
BP oil spill hastened loss of Louisiana marshes, study says
Washington Post
When the grass died, deep roots that held the soil together also died, leaving the shore banks of the marshlands to crumble, said Brian Silliman, the University of Florida researcher who led the new study. “We already knew that erosion leads to permanent marsh loss, and now we know that oil can exacerbate it,” Silliman said.
In Brains of Mice, Cells for Overeating Linked to Those Sparked by …
ABC News
Dr. Deborah Mash, a professor of neurology and pharmacology at the University of Miami School of Medicine, said the findings shake up the current thinking about drug addiction in the brain. Typically, scientists don’t consider the bundle of hunger-driving brain cells in the hypothalamus as a part of the system that gets hooked on drugs like cocaine.
Public Universities See Familiar Fight at Virginia
New York Times
“Everybody thinks university presidents are hierarchical and top-down,” said Donna E. Shalala, president of the University of Miami…
UM doctor Eugene Sayfie still makes house calls
MiamiHerald.com
The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine recently recognized Sayfie’s dedication by honoring him with the university’s first Distinguished Master Clinician Award.
Protect yourself: Flood waters can be hazardous to your health
Tampabay.com
Dr. John Sinnott was driving through downtown St. Petersburg on Sunday and saw children playing in a flooded street. ”I stopped and told them, ‘You shouldn’t be playing there. It’s dangerous.’ And they just looked at me like I was some stupid old man.” Sinnott is the director of infectious diseases at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine and director of epidemiology at Tampa General Hospital…
Releases and Web Stories
Veterans Invited to Attend New Opportunities Workshop at Nova Southeastern University
MarketWatch (press release)
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., June 25, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — As July 4th approaches, and with unemployment rates for some groups of veterans hovering at more than 18 percent, business leaders at Nova Southeastern University‘s H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship, in partnership with the International Franchise Association (IFA), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) will host the New Opportunities Workshop (NOW) to educate veterans across South Florida on franchising and small business opportunities…
UF delivers promise of personalized medicine to heart patients
University of Florida
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Personalized medicine — a concept in which an understanding of a patient’s genetic makeup is used to enhance treatment — has arrived at UF&Shands, the University of Florida Academic Health Center…
