State University System
FAMU looking for input in search for new leader
Tallahassee Democrat (blog)
Florida A&M University board of trustees will seek public input regarding its presidential search process through two focus-group meetings and a new website it plans to launch Oct. 6…
Alumni chapters around the country prepare for FAMU’s 125th anniversary
Tallahassee Democrat (blog)
Florida A&M University sent a Legacy Torch to cities around the country for alumni events designed to build excitement for FAMU’s Oct. 3 celebration of its 125th anniversary…
FAU’s LGBT Organization Keeps Going Strong After Three Decades
SouthFloridaGayNews.com
It’s 6:42 p.m. and Lambda United, Florida Atlantic University’s Gay/Straight Alliance, is debating what color to paint a door laying against a wall in the LGBTQA Resource Center for the upcoming National Coming Out day. They’re also going over events Lambda is hosting next month…
FIU museum to lure scholars of Judaism
Miami Today
And just a few weeks ago, the Florida Board of Governors approved the Jewish Museum of Florida to be a special purpose center of FIU…
Jackson-FIU agreement delayed
Miami Today
The Miami-Dade County Jackson Health System and Florida International University Wertheim College of Medicine have hammered out a new annual operating agreement totaling $3.5 million…
Where Did the Tomahawk Chop Come From?
Slate Magazine
Florida State University adopted the Seminole as its symbol in 1947, and early depictions were of a Native American holding a tomahawk, the type of hatchet used by Colonial-era Native Americans and white colonists…
FSU Sigma Nu fraternity suspended by national chapter; rape investigation …
Tallahassee.com
A Florida State University fraternity has been suspended by its national board and FSU police are investigating a rape at the same fraternity…
FSU film moving forward despite Digital Domain bankruptcy
Florida Flambeau
Florida State’s College of Motion Picture Arts unveiled a new digital animation major this semester, relocating a class of students to its new home in West Palm Beach. The major hinged on a partnership with the Digital Domain Institute, a subsidiary of the special effects company Digital Domain Media Group. The problem: Digital Domain Institute filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Sept. 11. Concern grew about what this action would mean for the new FSU film program…
Orlando TV history: WMFE TV becomes WUCF TV
Orlando Sentinel (blog)
Wednesday was a history-making day in Orlando television. WMFE TV, long the main PBS station in Central Florida, became WUCF TV. The deal closed to sell Channel 24 to the University of Central Florida…
UCF growth slows but not development
Orlando Sentinel
Enrollment growth is expected to slow somewhat at the University of Central Florida, but developers have no plans to slow the construction of student housing in the area surrounding the nation’s second-largest university.
Polk Ranks Low in Study of ‘Best Cities for Successful Aging’
The Ledger
Officials with Lakeland Regional Medical Center have just announced plans for a partnership with the University of South Florida that will make LRMC a teaching hospital starting in 2015…
The Commute of the Future
Wall Street Journal
The National Bus Rapid Transit Institute at the University of South Florida estimates that 30 U.S. cities have adopted some form of the fast-bus service, including the Seattle area, which unveiled its first two rapid-transit lines in 2010 and 2011.
Sketch released of USF rape suspect
WTSP 10 News
A sketch has been released of the man police say attacked a student in a University of South Florida dorm. The attacked happened on Sept. 19 in the vending room area of the Kappa Residence Hall, according to USF police.
State College System
Congressional candidates Posey, Gillmor, Roberts square off over health care …
TCPalm
A candidate forum hosted by Brevard Community College and Florida Today was held on the Cocoa campus on Sept. 25…
Florida Lottery Sponsors Chipola College Fall Festival
WJHG-TV
Chipola College‘s annual fall festival has been a long time favorite among students. The college’s half day event includes relay races, inflatable slides, burgers and music. But this year, the event got a boost from a new partner. The Florida Lottery not only pitched in financially, but also joined in on the fun.
State senator calls for grand jury investigation into FSCJ problems
Florida Times-Union
The leader of the state Senate higher education committee Wednesday called for a grand jury investigation into Florida State College at Jacksonville. Sen. Steve Oelrich, R-Gainesville, said problems raised this year in a state audit — some of which could be included in a much-anticipated external review of FSCJ operations being revealed Thursday — amount to malfeasance.
FSCJ operational review to be presented Thursday
Florida Times-Union (blog)
The Board of Trustees for Florida State College at Jacksonville on Thursday will receive a consulting firm’s report that examines the institution’s operations. MGT of America, based in Tallahassee, will present the document at a specially called workshop…
Tech education center at HCC receives $2.8 million grant
Bizjournals.com
The National Science Foundation was awarded a three-year $2.8 million grant to the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center, or FLATE, at Hillsborough Community College…
Polk Aviation Alliance to promote industry in Polk
Bay News 9
…The Polk Aviation Alliance hopes to become an official nonprofit organization soon. The alliance is also excited about a new aviation program that is starting at Polk State College…
TCC receives $887669 federal grant for manufacturing training
WTXL ABC 27
The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded $15 million to a consortium of 12 Florida colleges, including Tallahassee Community College, for the Florida TRADE (Transforming Resources for Accelerated Degrees & Employment) in Advanced Manufacturing …
Independent Colleges and Universities
Bethune-Cookman gets $3 million grant
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Bethune-Cookman University has been awarded nearly $3 million by the U.S. Department of Education as part of a grant for Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Flagler College study shows alumni contributed millions to the area last year
Bizjournals.com
Flagler College alumni working in Metro Jacksonville contributed more than $200 million to the community last year, according to a study released by the college.
The ‘You’ in ‘University Tour’
Inside Higher Ed
Lynn University is so invested in prospective students enjoying their time on campus that even before a student enrolls the university has a parking spot with their name on it. Every prospective student who comes to visit the campus gets his or her own spot. A series of well-marked signs directs them from the parking lot to the admissions building. A screen in the admissions office welcomes students to the campus by name…
University of Miami Launches Master’s Degree Option to Make Future Docs …
GenomeWeb
The University of Miami is vetting applications from first-year medical school students for a novel master’s degree program that aims to teach future doctors how to understand and use patients’ genomic information to personalize care.
Investment visas pump millions into Miami
Miami Today
Those familiar with the EB-5 visa program say it has helped create some innovative projects in South Florida, including the University of Miami’s Life Science & Technology Park in Miami…
UT athletics center upgraded
Tbo.com
When recruits asked to see locker rooms in the University of Tampa’s Bob Martinez Athletics Center, coaches avoided it…
Warner University’s Ag Studies Program Taking Root
The Ledger
Warner University’s new agricultural studies program will not start classes until next fall, but already it has five students …
Yip Yap: Noted and Quoted FLHE Voices from Around the State
Report: Collier County behind curve on college-educated, working …
Naples Daily News
“There’s a demand for more education beyond high school, but let’s make sure that we understand what that means,” said Braulio Colón, who compiled the data breaking down local postsecondary education trends. “It’s not necessarily a university.” …Colón directs the Florida College Access Network, which aims to improve college and career preparedness and is helping lead an initiative to increase the number of working age Floridians with a postsecondary degree or credential to 60 percent by 2025.
Torch tour unites FAMU
Tallahassee Democrat (blog)
Retired FAMU art professor Chester Williams sculptured the 20-plus pound torch. The mock flame symbolizes the dedication and hard work of FAMU founders and that undying desire of every Rattler to tell the nation that FAMU is a place that helped them …
University names 3 candidates for president
Williamsport Sun-Gazette
Dr. Donna Price Henry, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Fla…
Florida’s income growth outpaces national average in 2nd quarter
Sun-Sentinel (blog)
Florida has, too, but some other states have fared worse, said Jorge Carrillo-Salazar, an economics professor who directs the Center of Economic Research at Florida International University…
Election ‘mania’ missing on college campuses
KMOV.com
…students listen to Ron Cox, associate professor for the Dept. of Political Science and director of Graduate Studies during an Occupy FIU Teach-In, on the Florida International University campus in Miami…
Missing, suicidal Jacksonville pilot subject of search as wing found off coast
Florida Times-Union
Investigators are trying to determine if the 4-foot piece found Sunday 20 miles off the coast matches that of a plane belonging to Gene Milowicki, former director of Aviation Programs for Florida State College at Jacksonville and the estranged husband of a Jacksonville police officer…
Man arrested in relation to FSU robberies identified
Tallahassee Democrat (blog)
The man arrested in connection to two robberies on FSU campus Tuesday night has been identified, according to the Florida State University Police Department. Jailon Markese Couch, 19, was arrested by FSUPD after the suspect led them on a foot chase…
IRSC professor to lecture in Taiwan
TCPalm
Dr. Elliot Cohen, professor of philosophy at Indian River State College, will conduct a series of lectures on philosophical counseling at the graduate school of psychology at Chengchi University in Taiwan…
Building on a daughter’s dream
Palm Beach Post
[Stephanie] Crispinelli was one of six members of Lynn University who were killed in the January 2010 earthquake that rocked Haiti. She was part of a charitable mission dubbed the Journey of Hope, taking food and supplies to needy families and orphaned children, …
Inside job: 400 make Lynn U’s coveted debate volunteer list
Sun-Sentinel
As a Lynn University student, Rachel Shaffer knew she had to be there when President Barack Obama debates Republican challenger Mitt Romney on her Boca Raton campus on Oct. 22. So instead of waiting for the student lottery, she volunteered. ”I really lucked out. There is no other way to put it,” said Shaffer, who was picked to be among 400 members of the public, students and faculty who applied to work free at the third and final televised Presidential Debate at 9 p.m. that evening. Shaffer, a junior and an early education major, will be among the ultimate volunteers, an usher inside the Wold Performing Arts Center…
H’do man co-chair presidential debate
DeSoto Times Today
A 38-year-old Hernando man finds himself at the epicenter of international politics as the co-chair of the final debate on Oct. 22 between President Barack Obama and the Republican Party nominee, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Dr. Jason Walton, a 1992 graduate of Hernando High School and 1996 political science major at the University of Mississippi, was in Denver yesterday as he checked out preparations for next Wednesday night’s debate at the University of Denver in Denver, Colo. ”We thought we would get a sneak peek,” Walton said as he toured the Magness Arena at the University of Denver. Walton is chief of staff to the office of the president at Lynn University, a small institution which has an enrollment of about 2,100 students…
Forum explores proposed state amendments
Tampa Bay Newspapers
Frank Alcock, associate professor of political science, New College of Florida, will moderate…
Role in Palm Beach Atlantic student group wins Royal Palm Beach teen freshman leadership award
Palm Beach Post
A lifelong baseball player, Caleb Hitchcock’s ears perk up immediately around the words ‘teamwork’ and ‘leadership.’ So last fall, as a freshman at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, he was instantly drawn to an organization his friend attended called the …
Report: Metro Orlando among leaders in paring credit-card debt
Orlando Sentinel
Paul Gregg, a former corporate executive who teaches personal finance at University of Central Florida, said it was encouraging to see more consumers getting their finances in order…
Polls under fire as Obama’s Florida lead grows
Tbo.com
If it’s accurate, said University of Central Florida political scientist Aubrey Jewett, “It would mean Romney was in a world of hurt. It probably would mean his chances of winning the presidency would be nearly zero.”
Suspect in Missing University of Florida Student Had Purchased Shovel
The Ledger
A student under arrest in the case of a missing fellow University of Florida student bought a shovel and duct tape just days before the victim disappeared, police said Wednesday. Christian Aguilar, 18, was last seen Thursday at a Best Buy store in Gainesville, police said. He was with Pedro Bravo, 18, who faces a third-degree felony charge of depriving a victim of medical treatment…
Around the region for Sept. 27, 2012
Gainesville Sun
Hyundai Hope on Wheels awarded University of Florida cancer researcher Wesley Bolch a $250,000 grant to support childhood cancer research. Bolch is working on a technique to deliver radionuclides directly to bone tumors to spare normal bone tissue
African spiny mouse may help in developing skin regeneration techniques
GlobalPost
“This study shows that mammals as a group may in fact have higher regenerative abilities then they are given credit for,” said study author Ashley Seifert, of the University of Florida, according to Discovery News…
For Veterans, a Surge of New Treatments for Trauma
New York Times (blog)
Dr. Amishi Jha at the University of Miami is working with the military to develop mindfulness-based training for soldiers before they deploy, and Dr. Kearney has done a very small study of the effect of mindfulness on PTSD…
Republicans Intensify Drive to Win Over Jewish Voters
New York Times
In Florida, 3.4 percent of registered voters are Jewish, but they make up as much as 8 percent of the electorate, said Ira M. Sheskin, the director of the Jewish Demography Project at the University of Miami.
VOTER GUIDE PROFILE: Nancy Soderberg
First Coast News
She is a small business owner and political science professor at the University of North Florida. According to her resume, she served as Ambassador to the United Nations from 1997 – 2001…
Tampa selected for export program
Bradenton Herald
But although Tampa Bay makes up 25 percent of the state’s economy, the area only represents 15.6 percent of Florida’s merchandise exports, said John Schueler, executive director of corporate and economic development at the University of South Florida and chairman of the Tampa Bay Partnership’s Regional Business Plan. ”That gap provides a real opportunity for growth for our region,” Schueler said in a statement. “The selection by Brookings for the Metropolitan Export Exchange is testament not only to the economic opportunity but also to the strong collaborative group who demonstrated our region’s commitment to developing and implementing a strategic export plan.”
Praises on High For Oxford Exchange
Patch.com
“There wasn’t much in this stretch of Kennedy for students to do before this, but now they don’t have to walk far to get coffee or a book off campus,” University of Tampa adjunct professor of communications Steven Crompton said.
Professors’ History of UT to be Unauthorized
Minaret
Efforts to publish a pictorial history of The University of Tampa were turned down earlier this month by administration, leaving one UT professor and alumnus/former UT professor frustrated and left to seek another means of publication. Sean Maddan, associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at UT, has been working on a book that will document the history of the university all the way back to the Tampa Bay Hotel years with co-author James Beckman, an alumnus and former UT faculty member and now chair of the Department of Legal Studies at the University of Central Florida…
Voter registration drive today at UWF
Pensacola News Journal
“If you complain about something the government is doing and you didn’t vote, you shouldn’t be complaining,” said [Mallory] Giordany, a freshman at the University of West Florida who was registering to vote at a voter drive today at UWF’s University Commons…
Releases and Web Stories
Flagler College releases economic impact study
ReadMedia (press release)
According to the report, during the 2010-2011 fiscal year, Flagler College contributed $218 million to the Greater Jacksonville area, including St. Johns, Duval, Flagler, Baker, Clay and Nassau counties…
Fla. study says markets not to blame for pensions
Sacramento Bee
Florida State University‘s LeRoy Collins Institute issued a follow up Wednesday to a “report card” that last year graded pension plans in Florida’s 100 largest cities…
Gore to visit Nova’s coral reef research center
Sacramento Bee
Former Vice President Al Gore is slated to speak at the opening of Nova Southeastern University’s $50 million coral reef research center.
Dance Festival Draws Hundreds of Young Dancers to Campus Oct. 12 and 13
Santa Fe College
This training and performance opportunity for middle and high school age dancers is hosted by the Santa Fe College Dance Department and the University of Florida School of Theater and Dance.
St. Leo Open House for Students Dec. 5
Santa Fe College
On Wednesday, December 5 in the S Breezeway, Saint Leo University will have an Open House introducing Santa Fe College students to their new location on campus and encouraging students to examine options for their Bachelor of Arts…
Florida Looks At Postsecondary Certificates Versus Degrees
WCTV
The ongoing discussion around increasing the number of Americans with a postsecondary education tends to be narrowly defined to college degrees—not certificates. A new report released today by the Florida College Access Network (Florida C.A.N.!) discusses the importance of the postsecondary certificate in Florida and makes the case for why certificates should be included as part of state goals for increasing degree attainment…For more information, visit www.floridacollegeaccess.org and click on “Research & Data”. Florida C.A.N! receives support from the Florida Department of Education, Helios Education Foundation, Lumina Foundation and the University of South Florida.
