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State University System
Florida Atlantic moves closer to joining Conference USA this year
Palm Beach Post
Florida Atlantic is in the final stages of making its move into Conference USA. The league is expected to vote next week to accept FAU and Middle Tennessee for all sports starting with the 2013-14 academic season. The only roadblock then would be for FAU and Middle Tennessee to work out an exit strategy with the Sun Belt Conference what would be accepted by all parties…
Gov. Rick Scott’s involvement in UF president decision under review
Miami Herald
The accrediting organization for colleges and universities is looking into Gov. Rick Scott’s involvement in the University of Florida‘s presidential search. Shortly after the Jan. 8 announcement that Scott had helped persuade UF President Bernie Machen to postpone retirement, a representative from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools told the Times/Herald it saw no cause for concern because UF Board of Trustees Chairman David Brown was involved in the decision.
State College System
Palm Beach, Broward College freeze 2012 tuition
Sun-Sentinel
Although students at Florida Atlantic University were slapped with a hefty tuition increase this fall, Broward College and Palm Beach State College went in a different direction: No increase at all…
Fill A Bowl for Manna set for Saturday
Pensacola News Journal
Manna, Pensacola State College and Gulf Power Co. are teaming up to feed the hungry with its annual Fill A Bowl for Manna event this Saturday…
FSCJ enrollment over-reporting garnered extra $400000 in state funds
Florida Times-Union
An error in reporting their enrollment got Florida State College at Jacksonville more than $400,000 in state money that should have been spread out among other institutions, according to state calculations…
Pantin returning to FSU BOT, TCC selected for Plus 50 program
Tallahassee Democrat
Tallahassee Community College was recently chosen to join the Plus 50 Encore Completion Program, a national effort to train 10000 baby boomers for new jobs …
Attention businesses: Valencia wants input on types of science …
Orlando Business Journal
Does your business need a highly trained, science-based work force? Good news: Valencia College wants your input. It’s been a transformative five months for Valencia College. In August, it opened a three-story, 83,000-square-foot, $21.7 million building in Lake Nona, complementing Medical City. And on Jan. 7, the school opened its largest building ever: Building 4 at its Kissimmee campus.
Independent Colleges and Universities
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Florida A&M’s image suffers another blow
Tallahassee Democrat
Florida A&M University has until Friday to prepare its response to a scathing report that called the university out for its lack of controls…
Keeping film school in West Palm must make sense for FSU
Palm Beach Post
If FSU’s film school is to remain in West Palm Beach, Dr. Barron must make the case that doing so is financially feasible…
Rankings highlight colleges’ online programs
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Daytona State, Embry-Riddle and Stetson should continue to enhance online offerings and ensure “real” campuses offer a wider array of learning…
Thumb up: Edwin Massey receives first Pete Hegener Leadership Award
TCPalm
Edwin Massey, president of Indian River State College, was awarded this month the first Pete Hegener Leadership Award …
Letter: St. Lucie County schools should take care to choose right …
TCPalm
The city managers of Port St. Lucie, Fort Pierce, and the county as well as Indian River State College should be involved in the process…
20-year-old opens tattoo shop in unlikely location
Florida Today
He and the shop’s primary investor — his father, David Waite — chose the location because of its proximity to Brevard Community College and the quality of the building…
FAMU hires anti-hazing czar
MiamiHerald.com (blog)
The school may have struck out in its attempt to hiring a new Marching 100 director this week, but Florida A&M University has filled one of the three positions connected to its effort to rebuild the band after the hazing death of drum major Robert Champion. FAMU alum Bryan F. Smith will serve as the special assistant to the president for anti-hazing starting Feb. 1. He is expected to be given wide-ranging authority to enforce the school’s hazing regulations and address issues concerning hazing.
FAMU attorney: State hazing investigation ‘incompetent’
Orlando Sentinel
A state investigative report assailing FAMU for its failure to stop hazing is “incompetent” and contains “unfounded opinions,” according to an attorney who is helping to draft the university’s official response to the findings that were released late last month. The critical report by the state Board of Governors’ Inspector General came a little more than a year after the hazing death of FAMU drum major Robert Champion aboard a chartered bus in Orlando. Citing numerous failings, it found that FAMU lacked the internal controls needed to identify and fight hazing before Champion’s beating by fellow marching band members…
The road back: Florida A&M addresses accreditation issues
Tallahassee Democrat
Maurice Edington is guided by the principles of scientific inquiry. He knows only one way to approach a problem: Use analytical skills to assess the situation and develop a plan of action. A chemist with a doctorate degree from Vanderbilt University, the 42-year-old Edington wears numerous hats at Florida A&M University, including one that has thrust him into the spotlight. He is FAMU’s liaison to its accrediting agency, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and on Dec. 10 its Commission on Colleges announced that FAMU was being placed on probation for 12 months.
Sandy Hook truther won’t quit
Salon
Florida Atlantic University professor James Tracy is standing by his controversial views on the Sandy Hook massacre, saying in a radio interview today that “crisis actors” may have been used to “embellish” the shooting, just as they did in 9/11…
Story of a lifetime: FIU students covering Monday’s inauguration
Miami Herald
It started with an e-mail Florida International University journalism major Anthony Cave sent to South Florida News Service news director Chris Delboni asking whether a group of students could go to Washington, D.C., and cover the second inauguration of President Barack Obama…
Port focuses on potential clients
Port St. Joe Star
Loretta Costin, director of Gulf Coast State College‘s Gulf/Franklin campus, said the night welding class created in collaboration with Gulf District Schools has 17 students and the class will begin again in February once that class graduates…
It’s Your Business: John R. Wood is Humanitarian of the Year
Naples Daily News
Naples businessman, Realtor and civic leader John R. Wood is the Hodges University 2013 Humanitarian of the Year…
Lawyers earn legal list kudos
Palm Beach Daily News
PBAU board officers named — Palm Beacher Bill Blodgett was elected treasurer of Palm Beach Atlantic University’s board of trustees…
Apple co-founder Wozniak to boost STEM initiative
The South Florida Times
Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak is headlining the Palm Beach State College Foundationís upcoming event launching a five-year initiative to increase the number of skilled professionals in science, technology, engineering and math…
5 Questions with Mark Nisbett, director of Pensacola State College’s Veterans Upward Bound Program
Pensacola News Journal
Mark Nisbett, director of the Veterans Upward Bound program at Pensacola State College discusses the program with Pensacola News Journa …
World-renowned peace activist speaks at SF College
Gainesville Sun
Michael Allard didn’t have any questions. Just a heart that felt touched. After hearing the Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell‘s speech at Santa Fe College on Friday night, he stood and raised his hand. “I just want to say thank you,” he said. “I don’t have a question. It was a very moving ceremony.”
St. Petersburg’s Martin Luther King Jr. events offer new opportunities
Tampabay.com
“I think initially people may have felt we have to choose either or,” said Linda Hogans, director of special programs for St. Petersburg College, which coordinated the fiscal portion of the day of service…
Freedom Rider featured among local MLK programs
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Patton took part in a bus ride to Jackson, Miss., where his group was arrested for entering a “whites only” Greyhound Bus station waiting room, said Robert Bickel, a law professor at Stetson University.
Jessamen Dunker suspended
ESPN
Florida coach Will Muschamp has suspended offensive lineman Jessamen Dunker from all team activities in the wake of Dunker’s arrest earlier this week for allegedly stealing a scooter. ”I met face-to-face with him this morning for the first time for about 15 minutes,” Muschamp said Friday afternoon. “Once we get a little more information, we’ll move forward, but he’s suspended from the team at this time.
Talk Sunday at UF will focus on trans-Antarctic expedition
Gainesville Sun
Learn about the history of Antarctica and about the 2014 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Centenary Expedition Sunday at the Florida Museum of Natural History. During the 2 p.m. program, which is open free to the public, Glenn M. Stein, U.S. liaison for the expedition, will discuss the history of the continent, effects of global warming, the incomplete first attempt to cross Antarctica by Sir Ernest Shackleton in 1914 and the upcoming re-creation of the trip.
Legendary UM Coach Ron Fraser Has Died
WBFS
Legendary University of Miami baseball coach Ron Fraser, know by many as “The Wizard of college baseball” has died at the age of 79…
USF program feeds beekeeping buzz
TBO.com
Brent Weisman, an anthropology professor and longtime hobbyist, supervises the beekeeping as part of the yearlong series of monthly sessions at University of South Florida Botanical Gardens…
Releases and Web Stories
Florida State University develops prosthetic socket for veteran amputees
Healio
In a new contract with the US Department of Veterans Affairs, Florida State University‘s High-Performance Materials Institute is developing the next generation of prosthetic limbs for veteran amputees…
Scholar to talk about earliest oral histories of Holocaust survivors
University of Florida
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Noted Holocaust scholar Alan Rosen will present a program Feb. 12 at the University of Florida about his research on some of the earliest oral history interviews conducted with Holocaust survivors.
A Warm Fulbright Welcome
University of South Florida
TAMPA, Fla. (Jan. 18, 2013) – “I am so amazed at the large turnout and the diversity of the audience,” said Darlene DeMarie, associate professor of educational psychology, as she looked around the crowd that filled the University of South Florida’s School of Music’s lobby…
Bridging the Immigration Divide
University of South Florida
TAMPA, Fla. (Jan. 17, 2013) – Recent immigrants and people descended from earlier immigrants – whether voluntary or forced – often eye each other warily, sometimes finding themselves at odds. Making a connection can be as simple as knowing how to start a conversation – one that can become the basis for working together – rather than a fight. But as Angela Stuesse has found, such conversations often don’t just happen. And if they do, they can be touchy. “Across cultures, knowing what not to say can be as important as knowing what to say and how to say it,” points out Stuesse, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of South Florida…
Coach Talks Game Plan
University of South Florida
Wednesday night at the University of South Florida’s Marshall Student Center, Edwards brought his “A” game. The speech by the former New York Jets coach and ESPN analyst, part of the University Lecture Series, energized the crowd as he centered his presentation on the importance of having a “game plan about your life.”…The University Lecture Series website can be located at uls.usf.edu and on Facebook at Facebook.com/UniversityLectureSeries.
Celebrating Community Engagement
University of South Florida
TAMPA, Fla. (Jan. 19, 2013) – Upwards of 3,000 University of South Florida students turned out for the University of South Florida’s biggest community engagement project – Stampede of Service – which celebrates a helping hand across Hillsborough County.
Valencia Wins Green Building Award for West Campus University Center
Valencia News
ORLANDO – The United States Green Building Council’s Central Florida Chapter has awarded Valencia College a “Building of the Year LEEDership Award” for 2012 for the college’s University Center, a joint-use facility that Valencia shares with University of Central Florida (UCF) on Valencia’s West Campus…
