Tomorrow: Florida Blue Ribbon Task Force on State Higher Education Reform
Where: Collaborative Labs Workshop at the St. Petersburg College EpiCenter, 13805 58th Street North, Clearwater, FL 33760
When: Registration is 8:15 – 8:45
Meeting Materials can be found here.
State University System
FAMU discovers envelope with $10K in checks from 2010
Tallahassee.com
Officials at Florida A&M University are trying to determine how an envelope containing checks totaling more than $10,000 from a November 2010 fundraiser was not discovered until last week. Thomas Haynes, vice president for university advancement and executive director of the FAMU Foundation, informed FAMU’s Internal Crisis Management Team on July 17 that an envelope containing 22 checks worth $10,850 had been found in a drawer at the Alumni House on South Adams Street.
First day of testimony in FAMU-DRS sexual abuse case
Tallahassee Democrat (blog)
Tuesday was the first day of witness testimony in the trial of a man accused of sexual battery of an 8-year-old boy at Florida A&M Developmental Research School last fall. Ralph Monroe, 19, a 2011 graduate of FAMU-DRS, gradually admitted in an interview conducted prior to his arrest that he touched the boy, providing details corroborated by the victim’s previous recorded testimony.
Rivals Mica, Adams both sought ‘earmarks’ for local projects
Orlando Sentinel
They cite outrages ranging from a $223 million “bridge to nowhere” in Alaska to $15000 for Florida Atlantic University to study how alcohol affects a mouse’s motor function…
“Shopping Sheet” breaks down college costs
NBC2 News
Florida Gulf Coast University still ranks as one of the least expensive schools per year. It’s less than USF, FSU, and the University of Florida. FIU ranks as the most costly. Here’s a breakdown of the costs for all state universities based on a 30 credit hour year, which is a Fall and Spring semester…
Fed gov. wants FSU to repay $3 million
MiamiHerald.com
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is looking to get some $3 million back from Florida State University. The federal agency claims Florida State officials did not provide adequate oversight to ensure consistent compliance with federal regulations and left it to the discretion of its individual colleges, departments, and principal investigators to interpret the procedures correctly…
FSU’s Mag Lab on target for NSF grant
Tallahassee Democrat (blog)
The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State is set to receive a five-year renewal grant of more than $160 million from the National Science Foundation, as much as 10 percent more than the world-renowned lab got in its most recent five-year funding. The 20-year-old facility, located in Innovation Park in southwest Tallahassee, also received an additional $3 million from the state in the current budget. It is the only national laboratory in Florida…
Financial report on schools draws fire
WALA-TV FOX10
The University of West Florida gets the highest grades in our area in one study judging the financial health of local colleges and universities. The Chronicle of Higher Education published a story Monday, citing an analysis by Bain & Company of nearly 1,700 public and private nonprofit institutions from 2005 to 2010. “The study found that one-third of the institutions have been on an ‘unsustainable financial path’ in recent years, and an additional 28 percent are ‘at risk of slipping into an unsustainable condition’,” said the Chronicle…
State College System
A Donor Intent Question at Florida State College Foundation
The Nonprofit Quarterly
The Florida State College Foundation (FSCF) is one of those 501(c)(3) foundation arms of a public university meant to provide an avenue for private fundraising, often outside the aegis of the state legislature, which is tasked with oversight of state college budgets. Donors to the FSCF are offered a few reasonably clear options for what their contributions might support—scholarships to help students attend the college, program funds to help programs that rely on donors, facility campaigns, memorial gifts, endowment gifts, and “unrestricted donations…used where funds are needed most.”
LightHouse Commons at Edison State College nears completion
Naples Daily News
At 75 percent capacity, only 100 units remain available at LightHouse Commons at Edison State College. Construction of the 164000-square-foot, 405-unit residence hall located on the west side of the Fort Myers campus is nearly complete…
Edison State College is wiggling its way around a tuition increase for …
The News-Press
Edison State College has found a way to wiggle around a state-mandated tuition increase for baccalaureate students. Florida’s 2012-13 budget requires all state colleges to increase base tuition for upper-level students by 5 percent, which equates to $4.37 per credit hour. To compensate for that bump, however, Edison State’s Board of Trustees on Tuesday approved a plan to decrease an equivalent amount of school fees for technology, capital improvement, student activities and financial aid…
Regent audit shows loss in first year of community center’s operation
Tampabay.com
There was $41000 in the bank, he said, because the board hasn’t repaid all the money requested back from its landlord, Hillsborough Community College…
Big-time arts coming to South Shore
Tbo.com
The Community Foundation of Greater Sun City Center awarded a $60,000 grant for start-up expenses and program development last year, and the center has already formed partnerships with Hillsborough Community College SouthShore, SouthShore Regional Library, Tampa Museum of Art, Hillsborough County Arts Council, Hillsborough County Public Schools, Keller Williams Realty and Mary and Martha House. These organizations will provide workshop instructors, lend equipment or bring programs and activities to the center…
Miami Dade College Partners with business school at Nova Southeastern
MiamiHerald.com
Miami Dade College said Monday that it will begin a partnership with the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship at NOVA Southeastern University to increase opportunities for Miami Dade College students who complete a Bachelor of Applied Science in Supervision and Management and want to pursue a graduate degree in business at NSU…
Independent Colleges and Universities
WXEL TV now in local hands
Palm Beach Post
WXEL Public Broadcasting Corp. paid nearly $1.5 million Friday to Barry University to take control of WXEL TV Channel 42, which is affiliated with the Public Broadcasting Station…
Traffic Safety A Concern At FIT Commons Building
Brevard Times
Florida Institute of Technology recently opened its new Florida Tech Commons building at the intersection of University Boulevard and Babcock Street. The three-story, 63,000-square foot facility is designed as the new “front door” to campus…
Conniston Middle School science classes to get boost from $175000 …
Palm Beach Post
Conniston Middle School teachers will soon be working alongside Palm Beach Atlantic University faculty members to provide students with an unconventional learning experience in their science classes. According to a statement released by Palm Beach Atlantic, the university was awarded a $175,000 grant — which they will receive over a period of three years — by The Quantum Foundation for a project that finds innovative approaches to teaching science to middle school students…
For-Profit and Career Colleges
Keiser University adds MBA and bachelor’s in psychology to academics
Florida Times-Union
Jacksonville’s Keiser University has added a master’s degree in business administration and a bachelor’s degree in psychology to its menu of academic programs…
Yip Yap: Noted and Quoted FLHE Voices from Around the State
Letters from readers: FSCJ President?
Florida Times-Union
With the rest of us constantly being asked to “tighten our belts” and do more with less, the current activities of the president of Florida State College at Jacksonville strengthens our beliefs that most things are out of control and no one is accountable for their actions until they are discovered…John Grassell, Orange Park
Time for West Volusia incubator has come
Daytona Beach News-Journal
As the business incubator in Daytona Beach celebrates its first anniversary, a study for a West Volusia County incubator is gaining traction. That’s good news for DeLand and Deltona. Successful businesses generated out of incubators are likely to locate near the incubators they started in. Right now, the main incubator in the area is the one run by the University of Central Florida and Volusia County government, located at the Daytona Beach International Airport. That incubator has about a dozen clients…
Former Olympians cherished experience
Florida Today
Brevard Community College professor Dr. Marsha Lake‘s daughter — Shea Ralph — is in London, an assistant coach for the US Women’s National Basketball Team …
Are Facebook Profiles Fair Game for Employers?
Fox Business
It is no surprise that employers are searching Facebook for information about job candidates, but new research is questioning the ethics of using the social network as a screening tool. In particular, the research questions whether candidates are getting an equal opportunity in their job search because of Facebook. The researchers raising that question include Vanessa A. de la Llama, Isabel Trueba, Carola Voges, Claudia Barreto and David J. Park of Florida International University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication…
Miami Performance International Festival: Work You Can’t Hang Over Your Couch
Miami New Times
Hollywood’s Pip Brant, who is an associate professor of art and art history at Florida International University, is combining her love of music and back-yard farming to create “Chick Wagon,” which employs old ladders, kitchen shelves, and children’s bicycle parts. The mobile contraption, housing three tiny Malaysian hens, “can provide quail-size eggs and mow the lawn,” she says. It can also serve as a quick getaway vehicle to help chicken farmers escape law enforcement in cities that ban livestock from urban dwellings. ”I grew up in Montana and North Dakota,” Brant informs. “My grandmother was German and kept chickens until she died.”
South Florida Home Values Show ‘Dramatic’ Increase, But Rollercoaster May …
LoanSafe
Florida International University real estate economist Ken H. Johnson said he’s not surprised by the increases in South Florida because property is “significantly undervalued in the county at present.”…
UAB business school dean Klock leaving for Florida International
Birmingham Business Journal
David R. Klock will leave UAB to become dean of the College of Business at Florida International University.
FIU hires Klock as business college dean
Bizjournals.com
Florida International University hired David R. Klock as the dean of its College of Business, a position he currently fills for the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Klock will replace Joyce J. Elam as dean on Oct. 1. Elam will remain dean of University College, which covers FIU Online and its market-rate and continuing education programs.
David R. Klock named dean at FIU College of Business
MiamiHerald.com
Florida International University said Tuesday that David R. Klock, Ph.D., has been appointed dean of FIU’s College of Business and Ryder Eminent Scholar in Business. He will assume the position Oct. 1, succeeding Joyce J. Elam…
Hurricane forecasters: Despite advances, Florida still vulnerable to next big one
Bradenton Herald
Still, Hugh Willoughby, a former director at NOAA’s hurricane research lab and now a research professor at Florida International University, said the extended forecasts instituted since Andrew had helped avert an even worse catastrophe in New Orleans.
Jacksonville University to name former NFL player its athletic director
Florida Times-Union
Jacksonville University has hired Brad Edwards, a former NFL player, as its new athletic director. The school plans to make an official announcement on Wednesday. Edwards is the athletic director at Newberry College and previously worked as an …
Political committees’ spending dwarfs traditional sources
The Florida Current
“As long as they don’t use what I call the magic words: vote for or against,” said University of Central Florida Political Science professor Aubrey Jewett. “It’s one of the loopholes in the state’s campaign finance laws.”
TCU hires former Miami coach Shannon
ESPN (blog)
TCU will hire former University of Miami head coach Randy Shannon as linebackers coach for the 2012 season with an official announcement likely in the next few days, a source confirmed on Monday…
Former mayor Iorio is becoming Tampa’s Ms. Fix-it
Tbo.com
It’s not that the former mayor [Pam Iorio] doesn’t already have enough on her plate. She is giving several talks a month on leadership based on her book, “Straightforward: Ways to Live and Lead.” She is over at the University of Tampa working with MBA students as “Leader in Residence,” and next month she will be in the process of moving to a new condo with her husband in South Tampa. And there is, of course, all of that speculation about politics down the road she won’t talk about…
Releases and Web Stories
Twitter can be used to detect psychopathy: study
New York Daily News
The Online Privacy Foundation, in conjunction with Kaggle.com, Florida Atlantic University, and “a handful of curious data scientists” mined the content of over 3 million tweets since the beginning of the year from 2927 Twitter users in over 80 countries.
Florida State University Faculty Members Offer Expert Opinions Concerning …
ParamusPost.com
In the aftermath of the tragic shootings in Aurora, Colo., Florida State University criminology and grief/counseling experts are available to provide context and analysis…
Where do they go from here? Ask NSU’s Scott Poland, Ed.D, renowned …
Newswise (press release)
Newswise — Nova Southeastern University’s Scott Poland, Ed.D., is a nationally recognized expert on school crisis, youth violence, suicide intervention, self injury, school safety, threat assessment, parenting and the delivery of psychological …
American Campus Communities, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2012 Financial …
MarketWatch (press release)
During the quarter, the company acquired Avalon Heights, a 754-bed off-campus project adjacent to the University of South Florida, for a purchase price of $30.0 million. ACC anticipates spending $2.1 million in capital upgrades to drive future rental …
Silverman’s Silver Celebration
University of South Florida
(July 24, 2012) – When Stuart Silverman spotted the advertisement in The New York Times for an assistant professor at the University of South Florida, the Bronx-native thought he was applying for a position at a university in Miami.
