State University System
Study gives Florida higher education high marks
MiamiHerald.com
A business-backed national study gives Florida’s public colleges and universities high marks for student access and success as well as efficiency. The report by the Institute for a Competitive Workforce, an arm of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, comes in the midst of Gov. Rick Scott’s efforts to overhaul the state’s higher education system and quash proposed tuition increases.
Florida Gets Bragging Rights On National Higher Education Report Card
StateImpact Florida
When people yell “We’re number 1!” about a Florida university, usually they’ve got a foam finger on their hand. But a new national study from the Institute for a Competitive Workforce on university and college performance and policy is giving state higher ed leaders a new reason to crow. Florida accomplished what no other state university system could on the report card: The state received an “A” for both four-year and two-year public institutions in the Student Access & Success category…
U.S. Chamber Gives Florida A’s for Post Secondary Education
Sunshine State News (blog)
Dean Colson, the chairman of the Florida Board of Governors, released the following statement after the U.S. Chamber of Commerce gave Florida ‘A’ grades for its four- and two-year post secondary education…
New student member joins Florida Board of Governors
The News-Press
As the Florida Board of Governors takes up one of the most pressing issues for students at its now-12 universities, the seat intended to be their voice on the board is changing hands. This week’s meeting of the board is the first for Cortez Whatley, the student body president at the University of Central Florida and the new student representative on the panel. As the newly-elected president of the Florida Student Association, Whatley takes over from New College student body president Michael Long as the voice of university students on the panel…
Florida university presidents urge board to ok tuition hikes
Palm Beach Post
Gov. Rick Scott said Wednesday that he didn’t expect leaders of the state university system to approve much in the way of tuition increases, saying he thinks they share the same goals of holding down costs for Florida students…
Ammons Gets Scathing Reception From Board of Governors
The Ledger
A clearly skeptical State University System Board of Governors committee approved Florida A&M University‘s plan for the coming year, but only after sharply questioning President James Ammons over the institution’s low graduation rate and heavy debt load on students…
Florida Atlantic University Seeking to Spike Tuition by 15 Percent
NBC 6 Miami
Florida Atlantic University moved to increase undergraduate tuition by 15 percent in the fall, the Board of Trustees said Tuesday. Officials cited deep cuts in funding after they approved the tuition spike to the state-allowed maximum of 15 percent and proposed raising student fees by six percent, according to the Sun Sentinel…
FAU to close its Treasure Coast campus in next 10 days
Palm Beach Post
Florida Atlantic University will close its Treasure Coast campus in St. Lucie West in the next 10 days…
UF researchers receive $1.5 million from NIH to study protein’s role …
WTXL ABC 27
University of Florida researchers have received a $1.5 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute to examine the role of an inflammation-causing protein in colon cancer development…
Delaney calls UNF grad rate an ‘Achilles heel’
Florida Times-Union
University of North Florida President John Delaney said Wednesday that the school’s lagging graduation rate was its “Achilles heel” as he presented of the school’s 2012-13 work plan to the state’s Board of Governors. A set of committees are considering plans from every state university, with final votes by the board set for this afternoon. Its strategic planning committee gave the non-financial portions of UNF’s plans an initial green-light Wednesday but didn’t vote the on proposed 15 percent tuition hike or fee hikes, which will be addressed today…
USF grilled by state higher ed leaders on graduation rates
Tampabay.com
The University of South Florida got an earful Wednesday as it presented its annual work-plan, which precedes tuition hike requests, mostly about its graduation …
Education board hits USF over grad rates
Tbo.com
Members of the state university Board of Governors hammered University of South Florida officials on Wednesday, a day before the board is expected to decide …
State College System
Ambulance Simulator Helps Train First Responders
wmbb
Chipola College now has new technology that will take paramedic training to the next level…
College president: My school did not give unearned perks to Cliff …
Florida Times-Union
In what is probably no surprise, a college president whose school was accused of giving salary bumps and promotions to U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns’ wife in return for him securing federal cash says the story is completely false. A letter penned by College of Central Florida president James D. Henningsen blasting the claim was in response to a story in the Gainesville Sun…
Daytona State College doing away with some lab fees, adjusting …
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Daytona State College students could see fewer lab fees in the fall as the college makes adjustments to reflect the actual cost of operating the labs based on a state audit last year…
No Tickets Left for Obama’s Visit to Tampa Bay
Patch.com
If you waited to get tickets to see President Barack Obama at Hillsborough Community College Friday, you’re out of luck…Obama will be speaking Friday afternoon, June 22, at the Dale Mabry Campus of Hillsborough Community College, 4001 W. Tampa Bay Blvd.
SCF president’s career in jeopardy over grant signatures
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
With a few strokes of a pen, Lars Hafner put his $300,000 job as State College of Florida president — and perhaps his entire higher-education career — in jeopardy. Hafner needed the signature of former Board Chairman Steve Harner on a 2010 grant application for SCF’s new charter school, but the Venice businessman was unavailable. So, as he did on at least one other occasion, Hafner replicated Harner’s squiggly signature on the document that secured for the college $325,000 in start-up funds from the state…
Independent Colleges and Universities
Stetson University to raze old Stover Theatre
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Stetson University will bid farewell to historic Stover Theatre in August, a university spokeswoman said Tuesday…
UM marine school experiments with raising dolphin fish (mahi mahi)
MiamiHerald.com
The aquaculture program at University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School is growing them in tanks and aims to teach other fish farmers how to do it…
Downtown Miami spotlighted as future tech hub
Miami Today
With the Network Access Point of the Americas, the University of Miami incubator…
Science grants begin to flow to Florida
Washington Examiner
The University of Miami medical school and the University of Florida are the state’s two biggest recipients of NIH grants. UM brought in $119 million last year, followed by UF’s $109 million and the University of South Florida’s $81 million. Scripps Florida won $18 million in NIH grants, including $5 million to study Type 1 diabetes and $3 million to create “protease tools” to unlock the mysteries of viruses and cancers…
For Profit and Career Colleges
Kaplan University to lay off 200, mostly in South Florida
Sun-Sentinel
Due to declining enrollment, Kaplan University said Wednesday it is laying off 200 admissions workers, primarily in its Fort Lauderdale, Plantation and Boca Raton offices. Kaplan has been downsizing as it struggles with fallen enrollment and investigations into its sales tactics…Florida’s Attorney General has ongoing investigations into allegations of misrepresentations by admissions staff at Kaplan and seven other for-profit schools: the University of Phoenix, Argosy University, MedVance Institute, Everest University, Concorde Career Colleges, Sanford Brown College and Keiser University, which is now non-profit…
Yip Yap: Noted and Quoted FLHE Voices from Around the State
Obama, Romney in Orlando this week to talk to Hispanic leaders
Orlando Sentinel
Though Hispanic enthusiasm for Obama may have changed with his order last week, it was suppressed earlier in part because his administration deported a record number of Hispanic illegal immigrants last year, said Luis Fernandez-Martinez, a University of Central Florida history professor who studies Hispanic migration and political trends…
Florida Governor Snubbed by Romney After Political Gaffes
Businessweek
Scott has struggled with the transition from the boardroom to the governorship of the nation’s fourth-most-populous state, said Susan MacManus, a political science professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa. “Public relations is very important to your success,” MacManus said. “He’s had a serious problem and has had to have a major repair job.”
