State University System
Pressure mounting to keep FAMU band suspended
The Associated Press
A new set of revelations this week that more than 100 band members weren’t even FAMU students at the time of Robert Champion’s death may have proven to be the turning point in deciding the band’s fate…
FAMU may decide fate of famed Marching 100 band
Fox News
FAMU President James Ammons is expected to discuss the band at a special meeting of the university board of trustees on either Friday or Monday, according to board member Torey Alston and a letter from Ammons this week.
Florida: Embattled Band Director Retires
New York Times
The longtime director of Florida A&M University’s marching band announced his retirement on Thursday, while Frank T. Brogan, chancellor of the State University System of Florida, wrote to the president of the school, James H. Ammons, urging him to keep the band suspended while investigations of a drum major’s death continue…
FAMU trustees may meet soon about band’s future
Orlando Sentinel
The chairman of the the board of trustees at Florida A&M University is trying to arrange a meeting among trustees within the next few days to discuss the status of the school’s famous Marching 100 band, …
FAMU band director Julian White retires unexpectedly
Sun-Sentinel
Florida A&M University band director Julian White, who has been under intense criticism since the hazing death of drum major Robert Champion in Orlando last fall, retired unexpectedly Thursday amid more troubling revelations about the embattled Marching 100 band.
FAMU attorney says band director was gatekeeper of who played in Marching 100
Tallahassee Democrat (blog)
One hundred-and-one members of Florida A&M’s Marching 100 during the fall 2011 semester were not enrolled in FAMU’s band course in violation of university rules…
City to search for new attorney, auditor
Tallahassee.com
Also during the meeting, commissioners approved modifying the $27-million FAMU Way Extension route to connect the southside street to Lake Bradford at Gamble Street instead of the original connection at Jackson Bluff Road.
Aftershocks from hazing death hit FAMU again
Tampabay.com
Aftershocks from the hazing death of drum major Robert Champion six months ago rocked Florida A&M University again Thursday, with the state’s top university official calling for the Marching 100 band to stay suspended…
Florida university system head tells FAMU President to keep Marching 100 band …
Washington Post
Frank Brogan, the chancellor of Florida’s state university system, wrote a blunt letter to FAMU President James Ammons urging him to keep the band suspended. Ammons was expected to discuss the band at a special meeting of the university board of trustees on Monday…
FAU board expected to close Port St. Lucie campus
TCPalm
At its June meeting, the Florida Atlantic University Board of Trustees is expected to approve a proposal to close the school’s St. Lucie West campus…
South Florida water district takes Miami-Dade wetlands off the trade table …
MiamiHerald.com
Water managers have decided to draw up new plans on how to use a chunk of West Miami-Dade wetlands once sought by Florida International University.
Woman escapes attack near UCF
Central Florida News 13
If you plan to be anywhere near the University of Central Florida’s main campus Thursday, Orange County deputies want you to be on alert. They are still searching for a man accused of attacking a woman Wednesday afternoon at …
Composite sketch released of man who attacked woman near UCF
WFTV Orlando
Investigators have released a composite sketch of a man who they said attacked a woman near the University of Central Florida in broad daylight. Investigators said the man attacked a woman near the leasing office of Arbour Apartments off Alafaya Trail …
Machen open to tapping reserves to delay budget cuts
Gainesville Sun
University of Florida President Bernie Machen said Thursday that reserves might be used to help colleges delay cuts, but he dismissed the idea that they could prevent cuts from happening at all…
Former USF dean Michael Kovac dies at 70
Tbo.com
Michael Kovac, a determined advocate of crossing boundaries to develop research programs across Central Florida, died on Wednesday. He was 70. He was dean of the University of South Florida’s College of Engineering for 13 years before founding and leading USF’s Nanotechnology Research & Education Center…
Embattled USF Lakeland Official Resigns in Wake of Inquiry
The Ledger
Alice Murray, the regional vice chancellor of the University of South Florida Lakeland campus, has submitted her resignation in the wake of an investigation into financial and managerial problems at the former polytechnic…
State College System
College’s new STEM annex to better train students, boost local economy
Hometown News
That’s where Brevard Community College’s new STEM annex comes into play. The goal of this program is to provide students with an education in science, technology, engineering or math, while preparing them for jobs in the fast-growing, high-tech industries in the local, national and global economies…
Video released in Daytona State College sex battery case
Central Florida News 13
Daytona Beach Police say the composite sketch (right) matches the suspect in this surveillance video taken from Daytona State College last week of the attempted sexual battery suspect…
Global Gateways program ‘best kept secret’ at TCC
Tallahassee.com
Francisco “Frank” Vasconcelos came here from Miami two years ago for one specific reason: the highly regarded Model United Nations student-run program at Tallahassee Community College.
Independent College and University System
Bethune-Cookman names interim president
Florida Courier
Sounding like a preacher, cheerleader and professor, Dr. Edison Jackson let more than 200 people gathered Tuesday at the Bethune-Cookman University Performing Arts Center in Daytona Beach know he was ready for the challenge becoming …
Florida Memorial confers new degrees
The South Florida Times
When Duane Thomas moved to the Miami area from Trinidad and Tobago to attend Florida Memorial University, he found that adjusting to college life in the US was tough his first semester of the four-year-program. It was different Saturday …
South Florida private sector is getting less help from public sector
News & Observer
In defending the job cuts this week, UM President Donna Shalala laid out problems at all levels of government: tightened Medicare payments to the school’s three hospitals, reductions in state Medicaid payments, an $8 million drop in state education funding for UM, and spillover from the fiscal crisis under way at Miami-Dade’s Jackson Memorial hospital system, which UM staffs with doctors in exchange for annual fees…
We live in a world in health care where our flow of funds are unpredictable…
Donna Shalala
UM President & Former HHS Secretary
Yip Yap: Noted and Quoted FLHE Voices from Around the State
Caldwell: Florida’s system of higher education under attack to improve
Westside Gazette
Gov. Scott has decided to issue an executive order to create a “blue-ribbon task force” to recommend changes to the State University System. “It’s time to assess the progress of prior reform efforts and identify strategies to improve efficiencies and enhance the system’s effectiveness as an economic catalyst,” says Governor Scott.
Cerabino: Secret Service story involving free speech not so sexy
Palm Beach Post
This fall, when Obama debates Mitt Romney at Lynn University in Boca Raton, I wouldn’t be surprised if detractors are forced to stand on the other side of Military Trail…
Used fixtures donated to Dade Oaks
Tbo.com
Saint Leo University donated used fixtures from two of its dorms to 15 families…
Editorial: Create an achievable vision for ‘Suitcase City’
Tampabay.com
Hillsborough County officials are looking at several proposals to redevelop the impoverished and transient neighborhood known as Suitcase City, west of the University of South Florida’s main campus in north Tampa…
Harkins interested in top position at Florida college
Coast Report
Orange Coast College President Dennis Harkins, just a two-year veteran at OCC, is one of nine candidates vying for the top spot of Edison State College in Fort Meyers, Fla…
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to Keynote FAMU College of Law Hooding Ceremony
Westside Gazette
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who served as a prosecutor for more than 18 years, will keynote the Florida A&M University (FAMU) College of Law’s Eighth Annual Hooding Ceremony on May 12, 2012…
FL House Speaker Designate To Speak On Higher Education
The Florida C.A.N. blog
The incoming Speaker of the House for the Florida House of Representatives, Rep. Will Weatherford, will speak on the future of higher education in Florida next week at the Florida College Access & Success Summit in Tampa. The summit will take place Friday, May 11th from 9am-2pm at the University of South Florida’s Marshall Student Center in Tampa…
Records shed more light on Elizabeth Warren’s minority status
Boston.com
Leonard P. Strickman, founding dean at Florida International University, one of the nation’s most diverse law schools, said deans often consult the Association of American Law Schools directory when seeking out minority applicants, but look more rigorously at scholarship before making hires. The form filled out by faculty, he said, requires them to check off a box that includes more specific categories of ethnic and racial background. The directory, however, just uses the broader term “minority.”
SHARK Exhibit Features Celebrated Creatures Of The Sea
WBFS
SHARK is the new exhibition that opens Saturday May 12th at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale along with Nova Southeastern University’s Oceanographic Center. “I think anybody will connect with this exhibit whether you like sharks or not,” said exhibition curator Richard Ellis…
Harvard’s Sexual Assault Policy Under Pressure
Harvard Crimson
Peter F. Lake ’81, a professor at Stetson University College of Law who specializes in higher education law, said he thinks that Harvard could be influenced by the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell to conform to the “Dear Colleague” letter.
House bill directs NASA to scrap commercial crew competition
Florida Today
“It is unfortunate that Congress would direct an agency to pick a company before the magic of the marketplace had a chance to work,” said Dale Ketcham, director of the Spaceport Research & Technology Institute at the University of Central Florida…
Unemployment rates slowly decrease
Seminole Chronicle
The local area has improved over the past year said Sean Snaith, economics professor at the University of Central Florida, however, unemployment figures aren’t enough to display a full-on recovery…
Goodman to learn fate for crash that took life of promising young engineer
Orlando Sentinel
Scott Patrick Wilson was a young man with a fresh engineering degree from the University of Central Florida and a promising future, on his way home to Wellington late one night in February 2010 for a weekend celebrating his sister’s 19th birthday…
Colburn named interim Graham Center director
Gainesville Sun
Former University of Florida Provost David Colburn has been appointed interim director of the Bob Graham Center for Public Service…
Minors have an easy time buying alcohol online
Reuters
“We know that young people will search for the easiest avenue to access alcohol,” said Alexander Wagenaar, a health outcomes and policy researcher at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, who was not involved in the study.
Failing satellites jeopardize weather forecasting, report says
Los Angeles Times
“This has had a big impact at looking at winds,” said Shuyi Chen, a meteorology and oceanography professor at the University of Miami. She said that the failure to replace QuikSCAT had made it tougher to find tropical depressions…
Strip-club company sues North Bay Village
MiamiHerald.com
“Municipalities have the authority to protect from or guard against the secondary effects of nude dancing – crime, property-value decreases and such,” said Charlton Copeland, a professor at the University of Miami law school…
U.S. Marine receives sentence, sympathy
Tbo.com
These are important steps toward reducing the stigma of PTSD, said Carrie Elk, the military liaison for the University of South Florida’s College of Nursing and a psychologist specializing in treating the disorder…
Homelessness Didn’t Stop This 40-Year-Old From Earning Her College Degree
Business Insider
At 8 am, the University of South Florida campus is all but deserted. Most students won’t start trickling in for another hour or so and Shawna Machado, 40, knows this is her chance. She slips into a bathroom and turns the lock. Despite appearances, the fourth-year psychology student isn’t looking for a reprieve from another all-night studying session. She just needs a shower.
Local politicos weigh in on same-sex marriage debate
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Florida voters have something of a tradition of being fiscally conservative and socially liberal compared to other Southern states, said University of South Florida political science professor Susan MacManus…
Gay Marriage support largely generational
WTSP 10 News
“I think young people are a lot more accepting because they are more used to seeing it,” said University of Tampa student Katie Connelly. University of South Florida Professor of Political Science Dr. Susan MacManus says Connelly is right…
How to Write a Résumé When You’re Just Out of College
Forbes
The University of South Florida junior felt like she had nothing to put on her résumé. She had only held down one job, for three years, working part-time at a K-Mart while she was in school. What employer would hire her based on that bottom-rung work experience? But Bobbie Muir, a career counselor in the placement office at USF in Tampa, saw it differently…
Tour Central Europe with UWF History Professor
Pensacola News Journal
Daniel E. Miller, a professor of history at the University of West Florida with a specialization in Central Europe, is leading a tour this summer for individuals, families, friends, and university students to Central Europe…
Releases and Web Stories
HCC Plant City Gets New President
Patch.com
Hillsborough Community College officials have announced Martyn Clay will replace outgoing and retiring Plant City campus president Felix Haynes.
Nova Southeastern University’s Palm Beach Student Ed. Center to Unveil Shark Sculpture
Press Release
PALM BEACH GARDENS, FLA. – Nova Southeastern University (NSU) will unveil a magnificent 4 foot, 6 inch high Mako shark sculpture with stainless steel teeth at the entrance of NSU’s Palm Beach Student Educational Center (SEC) on Tuesday, May 8. This major creation was commissioned by NSU in support of Palm Beach Garden’s Art in Public Places Program. Crafted by famed international wildlife sculptor Kent Ullberg, the sculpture depicts a leaping Mako shark – the university’s mascot — rising out of the pavers, with 36 inches of its tail also bursting out…
Humanitarian Terry Waite to Deliver Keynote Address at Nova Southeastern University’s Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony …
Newswise (press release)
Approximately 700 Baccalaureate degree candidates from Nova Southeastern University’s Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, the Abraham S. Fischler School of Education, and the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship, will hear from several inspiring speakers during their Undergraduate Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 12…
More than 1000 educators present research in annual UF showcases
University of Florida
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — More than 1,000 public school educators are presenting their action research in coming weeks at the University of Florida’s annual inquiry showcases around the state…
