State University System
Fla. universities low on tuition, loan defaults
wflx
President Barak Obama’s college scorecard shows Florida’s state universities generally rank low for tuition, borrowing and loan defaults. The White House on Wednesday launched a website with that information as well as graduation percentages. Annual costs for attending Florida’s 11 state universities range from $9,225 for Florida International University to $12,502 at the University of South Florida.
To increase online education, one university will lead the way
Tampabay.com
Although the path is clearer, the state Board of Governors still has some decisions to make when it comes to online education. The board’s Strategic Planning Committee decided today that one school should serve as a lead organization, creating new degrees and conducting research on ways to improve online education. But the panel said it’s too soon to say which of the 12 state universities that should be…
The digital arts program at FSU moves back to Tallahassee
Examiner.com
The Florida Board of Governors oversees the public universities in the state. The Florida Board of Governors Select Committee on Florida State University (FSU) Academic Film Program has recommended moving the FSU digital arts program from the West Palm Beach satellite campus to FSU’s main campus in Tallahassee after the bankruptcy filing of Digital Domain, its corporate partner in the program…
FSU preparing teach-out for students in West Palm
Tallahassee Democrat
Administrators at Florida State are working on a plan to provide a “teach-out” for the 25 students enrolled in the film school’s new animation and digital arts program in West Palm Beach. The Board of Governors is expected to recommend during its Feb. 21 conference call meeting that FSU move the program, which began in August following several years of planning, back to Tallahassee. A BOG panel voted 3-0 on Friday to close the West Palm Beach program, in the aftermath of the September 2012 bankruptcy filing by FSU’s industry partner Digital Domain. FSU President Eric Barron told BOG last month that the university would follow BOG’s recommendation…
More Trouble For FSU Animation Program
WFSU
Florida State University is facing more fall out stemming from their failed partnership with a bankrupt animation studio that left Florida taxpayers 20 million dollars in the hole. Emotions are running high between the Chancellor of the Florida Board of Governors and the program’s students over a proposal to move the program to Tallahassee. The 24 students in FSU’s West Palm Beach film program sent an open letter to the Board chastising them for not taking their opinions into consideration about the program’s future.
Sources: Decision to move FSU program from West Palm Beach to Tallahassee is driven by politics
WPTV
Sources close to the partnership between the failed Digital Domain Media Group and the Florida State University Animation and Digital Arts program tell WPTV NewsChannel 5 the expected decision by the State University System of Florida Board of Governors to move the program to Tallahassee is being driven by politics. The sources, who spoke with WPTV NewsChannel 5 on the condition of anonymity, said the board may be using a multi-million dollar grant as leverage to force FSU to move the West Palm Beach-based program to its main campus. The sources also said Florida Atlantic University may not have wanted to compete with FSU in Palm Beach County…
UF may take the lead in state’s online degree project
Gainesville Sun
State higher education leaders want to coordinate the university system’s online education efforts, and the University of Florida might be leading the charge. The Board of Governors’ strategic planning committee met at UF on Wednesday to develop a plan to propose to the full board next week. Officials would like to present a framework to the Legislature before the start of the session on March 5 with hopes of seeking funding. The committee approved two recommendations to make to the board. One is to use board-approved metrics for pre-eminence to choose a university that would host a new set of online degree programs to offer to in-state and international students. That university would also conduct research in online learning and its associated technology. Committee members and university officials both acknowledged that UF would be in prime position to take the lead on such a project.
University of South Florida Offers New Online Health Informatics Program
U.S. News University
The University of South Florida is the first school in the nation to offer both online graduate certificates and a master’s degree in science for health informatics, according to a news release from the university.
USF Patel College of Sustainability to host climate conference
Tampa Bay Business Journal
The Florida Climate Institute will host the National Climate Assessment Southeast regional meeting at the University of South Florida’s Patel College of Global Sustainability on Feb. 19.
SPECIAL SECTION: The Harlem Shake is taking over the SUS…
State College System
Broward College economic impact $1 billion per year, study finds
Sun-Sentinel
Broward College produces an economic impact of roughly $1 billion per year, mainly from helping boost incomes for students and thereby expanding economic activity in the area, a new study has found…
New resource for career-seekers at Chipola College
Jackson County Floridian
Students at Chipola College now have a new way to try and get a leg up on finding a job, landing a job, or choosing an industry best suited to their interests. On Wednesday, the school officially opened its Career Resource Center.
Flash mob planned at Florida State College at Jacksonville to raise awareness about abuse
WJXX
Domestic violence is an issue facing millions of women worldwide. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports 24 people per minute are victims of physical violence, rape or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States…
Independent Colleges and Universities
Deadly St. Pete intersection to get traffic signal
WTSP 10 News
Robert Shepherd once said he thought the intersection at the entrance of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg was a tragedy waiting to happen, because it did not have a traffic light. It’s hard to believe but Shepherd was later killed in a crash at that very intersection. Now the state of Florida has decided to put a traffic signal there…
Florida Southern breaks ground on business education building
Tampa Bay Business Journal
Florida Southern College in Lakeland takes a major step in the creation of a business program with a Feb. 14 groundbreaking for the Becker Business …
University of Miami tests baseball team for PEDs, including HGH
CBS sports.com (blog)
In the wake of performance-enhancing drug concerns stemming from the South Florida clinic Biogenesis, the University of Miami has tested its players for banned substances, according to the Associated Press.
Report: Miami (Fla.) tests baseball team for HGH
USA TODAY
Every University of Miami baseball player underwent testing recently for performance-enhancing drugs, including human growth hormone, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press. The testing for HGH is not typical for the school, according to the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the university has not authorized the information’s release. But these are not typical times for the perennially strong program, which has been linked to Major League Baseball’s latest drug mess…
University of Tampa joins list of schools with ‘smoking zones’
WTSP 10 News
After pushing for four years, a student group’s plan to limit smoking to designated areas at the University of Tampa has been approved. You can leave your tape measure at home if you’re a smoker heading onto campus at UT in Hyde Park this Fall. The private college’s existing smoking policy — which was not strictly enforced — had allowed smoking only outside and only 25 feet from doors and windows. Starting in August, there will be no measuring; smokers will have to head to one of four smoking zones spread across the campus…
Yip Yap: Noted and Quoted FLHE Voices from Around the State
Questions for FAU
Sun-Sentinel
When two Florida Atlantic University police officers confronted a homeless man carrying a knife on the roof of a university building last week, the man ended up in an emergency room, shot twice by the police. Why? That’s just one of the questions FAU must better answer regarding Friday’s strange encounter, which most students found out about from friends long before they heard it from university officials…
Our take: UCF’s medical milestone
Orlando Sentinel
In 2011, when the College of Medicine at the University of Central Florida received provisional accreditation, its dean Deborah German observed that the approval moved the fledgling school onto the runway to become “the nation’s premier 21st-century college of medicine.” With Monday’s announcement that the school has received its third and final thumbs-up required for full accreditation, the journey toward that lofty goal finally is cleared for flight. Bravo…
Kirk: tudent Success: No Magic Involved, a Graduation-Oriented Culture
Huff Post College
While student access remains an important national goal, the knowledge-based economy makes completion of postsecondary education critical. I noted in an earlier postthat Georgetown University Center for Education and the Workplace estimates that two-thirds of the new and replacement jobs by 2018 will require a postsecondary degree or certificate and that, at current rates, we will fall three million short of being able to fill them. But despite the many opportunities and flexibility in ways to earn a degree for students, our overall graduation rates remain below our goals and expectations; but not at every institution…
VIDEO: FAU Cop Verbally Assaults Cameraman At Pro-Palestinian Event
BocaNewsNow.com
In the latest issue for Florida Atlantic University‘s Police Department, a police officer has been captured on videotape verbally assaulting a reporter and a cameraman attempting to videotape a publicly advertised presentation by Pro-Palestinan Josh Ruebner. The camera crew, from self-proclaimed anti-Islam and anti-Obama group “TrentoVision,” was apparently not causing a disturbance at the time of the altercation. While TrentoVision’s “mission statement” may be considered controversial, the group has a sizable following for its UStream television program, a radio program, and on FaceBook. The group claims it had permission to be on campus…
Pierre Allaire will leave UNF to take over leadership of the Baptist Health
Florida Times Union
Pierre Allaire will become vice president and chief development officer of Baptist Health effective March 25. Allaire will assume executive leadership of the Baptist Health Foundation, which supports essential programs and services of the Northeast Florida-based, not-for-profit Baptist Health system. Baptist Health Foundation raised almost $12 million during fiscal year 2012. Since 1995, Allaire has served as vice president for Institutional Advancement and executive director of the UNF Foundation at the University of North Florida, which this year is concluding a successful multi-year capital campaign exceeding its $110 million goal…
Jeb Bush avoids 2016 talk in favor of immigration and …
Tampabay.com
Jeb Bush wouldn’t say Wednesday night whether or not he’s likely to run for president in 2016, but at Saint Leo University he did suggest a surprising role model for the sort of president he’d strive to be: Lyndon Johnson. No, the conservative former Florida governor didn’t hail Johnson’s Great Society initiatives. Instead, he hailed Johnson’s forceful, hands-on leadership that among other things produced a 25 percent across-the-board income tax cut. ”He went and he cajoled, he begged, he threatened, he loved, he hugged, he did what leaders do, which is they personally get engaged to make something happen,” said Bush, who recently read Robert Caro’s latest Johnson biography.
Releases and Web Stories
Flagler College communication department presents Com Week 2013
Press Release
ST. AUGUSTINE, FL (02/13/2013)(readMedia)– Flagler College will host the eighth annual Communication Week on March 4-7 featuring speakers with a variety of backgrounds and experience in all areas of communication…
UF researchers share expertise at prestigious AAAS meeting in Boston
University of Florida
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Two University of Florida scientists will share their research on a natural way to sweeten foods with colleagues and journalists at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting this week in Boston…
UF ‘s Historic Preservation Program to host mid-century modern homes tour
University of Florida
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida historic preservation program is hosting a Mid-Century Modern Home Tour in northwest Gainesville from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday. The tour coincides with the second annual Preservation South Conference hosted by the UF Historic Preservation Student and Alumni Organization. The conference theme is Southern Modern. Proceeds from the tour will benefit both Alachua Habitat for Humanity and the UF historic preservation program…
Methamphetamine withdrawal may lead to brain-related concerns for recovering addicts
University of Florida
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida researchers have found changes in the behavior and in the brains of mice in withdrawal from methamphetamine addiction. These findings may affect the way physicians treat recovering methamphetamine addicts, the researchers write in the current issue of the journal Synapse…
New mobile application provides safe, free nighttime rides for UF students, employees
University of Florida
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida students and employees can now request safe and free nighttime rides with a new mobile application, SNAP UF. The application was created for the Student Nighttime Auxiliary Patrol, known as SNAP, program and was launched in January. The SNAP UF app allows students and employees to request a ride with just a few taps of their fingers and to see the location of the SNAP van in real time on a map. The driver can also notify the student when he or she has arrived using a “honk” function, sending a push notification directly to the student’s smartphone. The app is available for download on the App Store and Google play.
