State University System
Obama raises $1.75 million in Florida
CNN (blog)
At all three campaign events – and during his one official event at Florida Atlantic University - the president told supporters that this election will feature one of the starkest contrasts in history between any two candidates running for president…
Obama raises $2 million, reconnects with young voters in South Florida visit
Palm Beach Post
President Obama’s first visit to Palm Beach County since he was a 2008 candidate found him in full campaign mode Tuesday, telling $10000-a-plate donors and enthusiastic Florida Atlantic University …
‘Welcome to FAU, President Obama’
Sun Sentinel
It was a scene Florida Atlantic University has desired for years: a packed sports arena full of cheering fans. But it was President Obama, not an athletic event, that created the sudden burst of school spirit on campus…
Obama’s day: Florida and the Buffett Rule
USA TODAY
A few hours later, Obama travels to Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla., to talk about his major tax plan: The Buffett Rule, as reported by USA TODAY’s Richard Wolf. Named for billionaire investor Warren Buffett, the White House describes …
President Barack Obama speaking at Florida Atlantic University today
WPTV
When President Barack Obama speaks at Florida Atlantic University today, he’s expected to continue his call for millionaires to pay more in taxes than middle class Americans. President Obama will arrive at 11:45 am. at Palm Beach International Airport, …
FIU doctors now taking patients
MiamiHerald.com
More than 2 1/2 years after Florida International University’s medical school first began offering classes, school administrators on Tuesday announced they were opening their doors once again — this time to the public.
Players at Florida International University awards banquet walk out in protest …
New York Daily News
But his former players on the Florida International University’s basketball team were so upset after the school gave him the ax that they walked out of an awards banquet Monday night in protest…
Dean: FSU Med School on track
Tallahassee Democrat (blog)
Having remained true to its original mission, the College of Medicine at Florida State University today can see the results of its efforts to train physicians for communities that desperately need them. Speaking Tuesday morning at the Health …
GatorCare could take a chomp out of fund that pays for state employee health …
The Florida Current
A plan designed to let the University of Florida faculty and other employees move out of the state group health insurance plan could be prove troublesome, according to the Department of Management Services. Under a last-minute change approved by state …
UNF Poll : Romney and Obama Tied
First Coast News
President Barack Obama and GOP hopeful Mitt Romney would be in locked in a tie if the election were held today, according to a new poll conducted by the University of North Florida.
University of South Florida textbook, ‘The Joy of Statistics,’ riddled with errors
WPTV
Anyone with a kid in college knows the cost of higher education is skyrocketing. Textbooks alone can cost students hundreds of dollars every semester. But an investigation has uncovered some textbooks sold at USF are full of errors…
State College System
PSC’s Philosophy Club: ‘No One is Wrong’
The Ledger
It all started at a picnic table on the Lakeland campus of Polk State College, with a professor’s thought-provoking conversations with a group of students who wanted to talk about life, ideas, experiences or big questions. That informal group eventually turned into a full-fledged Philosophy Club, with weekly meetings held on the college’s Lakeland and Winter Haven campuses…
Independent College and University System
Fla. Hospital College expands for nursing
WKMG Orlando
On Tuesday, President of Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences David Greenlaw will announce plans to build a 90000-square-foot, five-story building to …
University Offers Type Ratings
AVweb
The Florida Institute of Technology says it’s the first post-secondary institution to graduate students with type ratings in modern jet airliners…
Trayvon Martin: Rollins College debates gun law with Cambridge team
Orlando Sentinel
The team from Winter Park’s Rollins College won with the argument that the case of Trayvon Martin, the South Florida shot to death in a Sanford neighborhood, didn’t involve the law. Instead, the shooting happened because of the racial prejudices of …
Stetson University theater program moving to Museum of Florida Art
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Stetson University will be moving its theater arts program across the street to the Museum of Florida Art, a school spokeswoman said Tuesday night. The museum agreed to lease its 8700-square-foot main theater, box office, …
University of Miami Reports Highest Florida Professor Pay
StateImpact Florida
The University of Miami has the highest-paid professors among Florida’s universities and colleges, according to data complied by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Hurricane instructors are paid an average of $140,800 for the 2011–2012 school year…
Yip Yap: Noted and Quoted and FLHE Voices From Around the State
Editorial: County needs UWF plan
Pensacola News Journal
The blow-back the University of West Florida is getting from various aspects of its expansion plans should not come as a surprise. Neither should it always …
It’s the people’s Civic Center
Tallahassee.com
I agree with Bill Proctor. And how often do you get to say that? Proctor, the tempestuous Leon County commissioner, wrote a column in this paper two weeks ago strongly objecting to an item in this year’s state budget passed by the Legislature that would allow Florida State University to assume control of the Civic Center…
Angela Corey, prosecutor in Trayvon case, is tough on crime
New York Daily News
Corey grew up in Jacksonville and went to Florida State before getting her law degree at University of Florida. Before the Martin case, she was best known for seeking a first-degree murder indictment against Cristian Fernandez, a 12-year-old accused of killing his 2-year-old brother by smashing his head into a bookshelf…
In a new Miami, praise for Castro opens old wounds
MiamiHerald.com
“Even though there is a range of opinion, only one sector of the range is mobilized to speak,” said Jose Gabilondo, a Cuban-born law professor at Florida International University.
Seaweed invading South Florida beaches in large numbers
Orlando Sentinel
Florida International University professor Stephen Leatherman, a renowned beach expert known as Dr. Beach, speculates that strong and steady easterly winds and a possible dip of the Gulf Stream may be behind the beached seaweed.
Marlins’ Guillen learns of free speech and consequences
CNN
“There is absolutely nothing not protected by the First Amendment that he said,” Florida International University Professor Howard M. Wasserman said. It was an example of political speech, pure and simple…
MTV star: Teen pregnancy ‘death of a childhood’
HLNtv.com
Today, [Briana] DeJesus, her mother, sister and baby Nova are all living under the same roof. “We’re all living in this household,” she said, “trying to be excited that there’s a new family member but we’re also grieving that we lost one.” DeJesus is working toward her associate’s degree and hopes to continue her studies at the University of Central Florida…
Arkansas fans, like Petrino, should be ashamed of themselves
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
“I’m not surprised by much anymore,” said Richard Lapchick, the director of the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida. “Our culture, particularly our sports culture, is so directed at winning that on campuses too many people overlook what appear to be egregious acts by coaches and athletes…
Marlins Suspend Manager for 5 Games Over Pro-Castro Comments
New York Times
Richard Lapchick, the director of the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, prepares an annual report on baseball’s gender and ethnic hiring practices. He said the reaction to the comments raised a free-speech issue. “Part of the reason that so many Cubans left is that there was a lack of free speech,” Mr. Lapchick said. “So it is ironic, that by his expressing his beliefs, he’s been penalized.”…
Bank of America moves to speed up short sales
Tampabay.com
“That’s a good development,” said University of Central Florida economist Sean Snaith. “Hopefully, other banks will follow…
CEO reveals secrets of the political speaking circuit
The Hill
While a student at the University of Florida in the 1970s, Epstein would book speakers to come to the school. He remembers getting a phone call about a governor from Georgia who wanted to give a lecture on campus the same day that actress Jane Fonda was at the university. Epstein says he replied, “Look, no one’s ever heard of him and no one’s ever going to.” That “nobody” was future President Jimmy Carter…Five presidents later, Don Epstein, 56, is still at it. He’s the founder and CEO of Greater Talent Network, a New York-based agency celebrating its 30th anniversary booking top talent in politics, entertainment, business, technology and sports…
China ousts top politician, accuses wife of murder
The Associated Press
“A political succession that seemed completely predictable has been upended,” said June Teufel Dreyer, a China politics expert at University of Miami…
Miami-Dade TNT Unit Loses the War on Drugs and Liberty City’s Trust
Miami New Times
“That kind of strategy just gets everybody in the neighborhood pissed off at the police,” says Roger Dunham, a University of Miami sociology professor who has studied the unit’s techniques…
Marlins Suspend Manager Over Castro Comments
Wall Street Journal
“Everybody has been upset,” said Andy Gomez, assistant provost at the University of Miami, who is Cuban-American and a Marlins season-ticket holder. But “he’s paying the consequences for such a stupid remark. … Let’s move on and play baseball.
Trayvon Martin case’s tough, controversial prosecutor
CNN International
Corey “lives up to every prosecutor’s mantra to be ‘tough on crime,’” wrote Michael Hallett and Daniel Pontzer, criminology professors at the University of North Florida, in a study published this year.
‘Are you gonna cry about it?’ The advantages to blubbering for male athletes
National Post
Being a man that cries could be Mr. Watson’s greatest strength as a golfer. Bottling up tears when the urge to cry is present means bottling up emotional toxins, a stew of negativity that, if not allowed to spill out, can cause physical and mental problems, says Lauren Bylsma, a clinical psychology researcher in the University of South Florida’s mood and emotion laboratory. “I don’t know that crying would necessarily help his performance,” says Ms. Bylsma. “But, if every time he played he felt like crying — and he held it in — that could have a negative impact on his game.”
Some wary of Hillsborough poll-watching group with tea party ties
Tbo.com
“The election system is under the microscope by both parties,” said University of South Florida political scientist Susan MacManus. “For Republicans it’s the fraud angle, and for Democrats it’s the anti-voter suppression angle…
Economist: Santa Rosa doing well with BP project money
The Northwest Florida Daily News
Rick Harper, the director of the University of West Florida’s Office of Economic Development and Engagement, provided an update Monday on the industry recruitment, retention and expansion fund created last year by Senate Bill 2156. Signed by Gov. Rick Scott last year, it allocates $30 million to Northwest Florida over three years for economic development.
Releases and Web Stories
U.S. News-Ranked Jacksonville University Unveils Free Continuing Education …
Sacramento Bee
By University Alliance TAMPA, Fla., April 3, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — RNs can now complete a one-credit CE course on Nurse.com free of charge, courtesy of Jacksonville University. Nurses typically pay $10 to take Resumes: The Recruiter’s Perspective, …
Transitions: Dr. Paul Hutchins
Santa Fe College
Dr. Paul Hutchins’ last official day at Santa Fe College is April 19. He has served the college for 24 years, most recently as Dean for Educational Centers. He’s “technically retiring” with 30 years in the Florida Retirement System.
University of North Florida’s Innovative Advanced Biological Sciences Building …
PR Newswire (press release)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — The University of North Florida’s (UNF) new Advanced Biological Sciences Building designed by award-winning international design firm Perkins+Will in a joint venture with Harvard Jolly opened on March …
CollegeVeteran.com Fills a Need in Helping Military Members Transition to the …
PR Web (press release)
CollegeVeteran.com today announced it will use the $2000 prize from its first place finish at the Southeast Entrepreneurship Conference at the University of Tampa to fund the development of a working prototype. CollegeVeteran.com is a start-up website …
