Florida’s Education Budget By The Numbers
StateImpact Florida
Gov. Rick Scott has signed a budget that’s very different than the one he’s been paying for since he authorized massive education cuts two years ago. Back then, pundits speculated Scott may have sealed his fate as a one term governor when he proposed a few billion dollars worth of cuts to education. Scott, for his part, seemed surprised by the widespread backlash. Ultimately, education lost about $1.3 billion in funding in 2011 – and cuts were necessary in many areas thanks to a multi-billion dollar budget shortfall. The governor has been trying to make up for it since then. Scott was able to get close to a billion dollars put back into education last year and a little more than a billion was added to the budget he signed yesterday. Scott calls it the Florida Families First budget…

• Florida College System: $20 million in new funds for state college operating costs, $3.9 million for operating and maintenance costs of new facilities opening in FY 2013-14, and $5 million in performance funding based on associated industry certifications.

• State University System: Restoration of the $300 million in recurring funding to the university system with performance measures and $50 million in performance funding based on performance metrics which will measure a university’s success in helping students obtain high paying jobs affordably.

• College and University Building Maintenance: $41.7 million in PECO funding for critical deferred maintenance for Florida College system projects and $44.4 million in PECO funding for critical deferred maintenance items for State University system projects.

• Student Financial Aid: Increases need-based financial aid by $3.3 million.

State University System

Champion family: FAMU band shouldn’t march next year
MyFox Atlanta
On the same day that the last of the suspects charged in the death of a Florida A&M University drum major appears in court, the victim’s parents spoke out about what they think should come next for the school’s band…

Weather alert: South Florida under a flood watch as more storms expected
MiamiHerald.com
The West Miami-Dade campus of Florida International University was pounded with more than five inches of rain and a nearby neighborhood had floodwaters of more than a foot high with impassable roads, according to the National Weather Service…

Defense Department Funds Miami Project To Thwart Cyberattacks
WLRN
In the next few months, Florida International University researchers will be doing their part to prevent the kind of high-tech cyberattacks that could cripple financial institutions, disable major infrastructure or threaten national security…

Class of 2017 Summer Orientations Begin at UCF | Video
KnightNews.com
Summer orientations began on Monday as hundreds of students (and parents) visited the University of Central Florida to tour, learn important information and register for classes…

MetroPlan wants your opinions on transportation
Orlando Sentinel
The Orlando agency is conducting its annual transportation survey in coordination with the University of Central Florida. It uses the research to help it set priorities for transportation planning and funding…

Discovery at Fla. lab confirms Hofstadter butterfly – USA Today
USA TODAY
The first team to publish their findings was led by Columbia University, which included researchers from the City University of New York, the University of Central Florida, Tohoku University and the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan …

UF fares well in Scott’s budget, Machen says
Gainesville Sun
After years of budget cuts, the University of Florida now will have enough money to fix neglected buildings and give faculty and staff raises…

UNF launches new social work degree
Business Journal (blog)
The University of North Florida will begin offering a bachelor’s degree in social work this fall…

Equality Means Business roundtable at UNF touts enhanced diversity
Florida Times-Union
Those concerns were the thrust of a roundtable discussion at the “Equality in Business” forum at the University of North Florida Monday which drew about three dozen corporate representatives from around the Jacksonville area…

InterCollegiate Sailing Association National Championships commence
Sail World
The racing will take place in St. Petersburg, Fla. at the Magnuson Hotel Marina Cove on Tampa Bay hosted by the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg with Eckerd College and St. Petersburg Yacht Club…

State College System

Crosswalks planned at HCC, city parks
Tbo.com
The city is assuring Hillsborough Community College students and officials that crosswalks will soon be installed…

FKCC has new tourism classes
KeysNews.com
Beginning this fall, three new courses relating to the biggest industry in the Keys will be on the menu at Florida Keys Community College…

Valencia: No tuition hike for lower-division courses
Orlando Sentinel
Trustees at Valencia College voted Tuesday morning not to increase tuition or fees for lower-division courses for the coming school year. Tuition and fees for lower-division courses, which are applied toward an associate degree, will remain at $99.06 per credit hour for Florida residents for the third straight year…

Independent Colleges and Universities

Ringling students’ art designs to be featured on bandages sold at Walmart
Bradenton Herald
ASO Corp., one of the world’s largest producers of adhesive bandages, recently launched a design contest for the students of Ringling College of Art and Design to create the look for a new line of decorative bandages.

Yip Yap: Noted and Quoted FLHE Voices from Around the Web

Editorial: Scott errs with CF Levy veto
Ocala
So it is inexplicable that Scott on Monday vetoed $4.25 million in funding for a new Levy County campus for the College of Central Florida as part of an overall $368 million in budget vetoes…

STEM square one
The News Herald
Gulf Coast State College and area elected officials aren’t going to take Gov. Rick Scott’s “no” as a final answer. Nor should they…

William Gerald Hofer
Palm Coast Observer
The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office locked down Flagler Palm Coast High School, Matanzas High School and the Palm Coast campus of Daytona State College on Dec. 12, fearing that Hofer might attack one of the campuses…

Mayor reacts to FAU president resigning
Sun-Sentinel
What, if anything will Saunders‘ stepping down mean for the city? For instance, you just met with FAU and you’re embarking on turning the 20th Street corridor into a college-town atmosphere. Do you think this will change anything? I continue to have a great respect for Dr. Saunders and her work in forwarding FAU as an educational institution. Under her direction, FAU and the city have continued to create a strong partnership. FAU is also fortunate to have a number of key senior administrative staff members who will continue to work with us on joint projects and initiatives such as the 20th Street corridor.

FAU receives $2.5 million donation
TCPalm
Florida Atlantic University received a $2.5 million from the estate of the late Thomas Chastain Wednesday. The money came from the sale of a Palm Beach home and land holdings in Martin County, which Chastain had donated…

Coral Reef High students earn summer internship at FIU
MiamiHerald.com
Aliya Moktadier, Kasia Williams, Jayson Plasencia, Ashley Sierra and Hunter Alvarez of Coral Reef Senior High School were selected to participate in the summer agroecology internship hosted by Florida International University.

Biggest python ever captured in Florida caught in Miami-Dade County
New York Daily News
[Jason] Leon, a 23-year-old student at Florida International University from the Miami suburb of Palmetto Bay, spotted some 3 feet of snake sticking out of a bush in a rural area of southeast Miami-Dade County…

Python, more than 18 feet long, sets new record in Florida
Los Angeles Times
The snake was discovered by Jason Leon, 23, a marine biology student at Florida International University. Leon was riding all terrain vehicles with friends in Florida City, about 35 miles south of Miami, when he spotted 3 feet of the python poking out …

Balancing Act: Young entrepreneurs redefining work world
Kansas City Star
Florida International University even has considered making an entrepreneurship course mandatory for all graduates. “We see that it’s very appealing to them control their own future,” said Seema Pissaris, a professor of entrepreneurship at Florida International University. “The technology is available, and innovative ideas are coming their way. Every week something else catching on and it spurs their ideas.”

Lincoln seniors apologize to vandalized schools
Tallahassee Democrat (blog)
Since Florida High is under the jurisdiction of the Florida State University Police Department, additional charges may be forthcoming. Fidel Ibeneme, Edmond Adkins, Danial Ibrahim, all 18, were arrested Friday on charges of vandalism…

New study offers insight into how to best manage workaholics
HealthCanal.com
Wayne Hochwarter, the Jim Moran Professor of Business Administration in Florida State’s College of Business, and research associate Daniel Herrera studied more than 400 employees in professional and administrative occupations and found about 60 percent of these workers identified themselves as workaholics who characteristically “feel guilty when taking time off.”

NIU names Eric A. Weldy vice president for Student Affairs and Enrollment …
NIU Today
Following a 10-month national search, Northern Illinois University announced it has selected Eric A. Weldy, associate vice president for Student Affairs at Florida State University, as its new vice president for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management.

Massive mural gives glimpses of Ybor’s history
MyFox Tampa Bay
Artist Mike Parker worked with dozens of volunteers and a group of students from Hillsborough Community College in Ybor to craft the gigantic canvas…

Undocumented immigrant spared deportation, allowed to remain for one year
MiamiHerald.com
Carlos Rivas, trying to attend Miami Dade College so he can eventually get a business degree, said his father and mother want to see their children prosper. “In Mexico, there’s nothing for us — one pair of old shoes a year,” Carlos Rivas said…

MJHS names board chair
Sun-Sentinel
Wolfson, who is chairman of the Pinnacle Housing Group, is highly regarded for his work over the past 30 years as a trustee of Miami-Dade College, where as chairman of the MDC Foundation he helped build more than $20 million in endowments…

NWF State’s Handy earns positive annual review
The Northwest Florida Daily News
Northwest Florida State College President Ty Handy received a nearly perfect evaluation Tuesday evening from the board of trustees. Read a summary of the evaluation…

Seminole State’s Ann McGee elected to AACC board
Orlando Business Journal
Seminole State College of Florida President E. Ann McGee was elected to the American Association of Community Colleges board of directors…

Is a timeshare a good deal?
MyFox Tampa Bay
Amy Gregory, a professor at the University of Central Florida Rosen College of Hospitality Management, said consumers can expect a less pressured, more straightforward sales presentation than in years past…

University Presidents Say Elitism Can’t Be Part of Plans for Future
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
John Hitt, president of the University of Central Florida, stressed the role of leadership in bringing about institutional change. “If you really want to see systemic change work, you have to have continuity of leadership,” HItt said…

UCF student tries to heal after domestic-violence attack
Orlando Sentinel
Kaylyn Martin and her best friend had rented movies in the University of Central Florida library and grabbed a bite to eat when — as they were walking through a campus parking garage — a black car with its headlights off came screeching toward them. The evening of April 26 would be a blur of screams, blood and fear after, police say, 20-year-old Paul Gomez attempted to kill Martin, his ex-girlfriend who had tried to break up with him weeks earlier…

Florida coach pokes fun at his wacky faces with sons
USA TODAY
Between head coach Will Muschamp‘s questioning of Twitter terminology and the Photoshop projects of assistant Joker Phillips, it appears that the University of Florida is on an offseason quest to be the most (intentionally) goofy football program…

Shands Jacksonville now UF Health Jacksonville – Jacksonville Daily Record
Jacksonville Daily Record
“People here in Jacksonville just don’t know the University of Florida is here. We are just changing our name to recognize that we are a part of the University of Florida. UF Health is that recognition,” said Russell Armistead, CEO of UF Health …

UM tennis assistant earns national honor
MiamiHerald.com
The University of Miami‘s Alex Santos was named the 2013 ITA National Women’s Assistant Coach of the Year for NCAA Division I tennis during a ceremony at the University of Illinois, in conjunction with the NCAA Division I team championships…

Piano competition notable part of Jacksonville Jazz Festival
Florida Times-Union
Lynne Arriale, a jazz pianist and associate professor of jazz piano at the University of North Florida, has seen the piano competition from two perspectives — as a performer (she won in 1993), and as a judge, which she has been on three occasions…

Area unemployment drops to near 5-year low – Jacksonville Daily Record
Jacksonville Daily Record
Unemployment fell to an almost five-year low in April in Duval County and in the five-county metropolitan statistical area, according to state numbers seasonally adjusted by University of North Florida economics professor Paul Mason…

Crist making rounds for Democratic candidates
Tbo.com
Reaction among Democrats to Crist’s defection has varied, with some skeptical that Crist is a genuine Democrat, said Darryl Paulson, a political science professor at University of South Florida-St. Petersburg.

Releases and Web Stories

Beverly Carmichael Appointed Vice President of Institutional Advancement at …
ReadMedia (press release)
AUGUSTINE, FL (05/21/2013)(readMedia)– Dr. Beverly “Bev” Copeland Carmichael has been appointed Vice President of Institutional Advancement at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida.

First FAU Med Students Now Hospital Bound
BocaNewsNow.com
The inaugural class members of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University have entered their third year of medical school and are headed to seven South Florida hospitals to begin their clinical clerkships.

Ceremony marks beginning of clinical training for class of 2015
UF College of Medicine News
After two grueling years that included 79 exams, more than 900 lectures and about 30,000 PowerPoint slides, the members of the University of Florida College of Medicine class of 2015 are ready to make the move from the classroom to the clinic.