State University System
An examination of FAMU’s law school
Florida Courier
FAMU’s law school already ranks last among Florida’s 11 law schools in the percentage of students who pass the bar exam on their first try. Significant improvement. Last week, the Florida Board of Bar Examiners announced that 68 percent of FAMU students passed the most recent exam the first time around, compared with 91 percent of students at the University of Florida and 89 percent at Florida State University, two of the more established state-funded law schools.
FAMU Celebrates 125th Anniversary
WCTV
…FAMU is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year. There have been ongoing events in celebration of momentous occasion. Famu‘s Founders Day Convocation is next week. It is of course in celebration of the institution’s 125th anniversary, and FAMU‘s 8th President Dr. Frederick Humphries will Keynote the program…
Fraternity Chapter Suspended by Fraternity Officials In Wake of Sexual Battery …
WCTV
Sigma Nu Fraternity has suspended its Zeta Zeta chapter at Florida State University. In a statement issued September 12th, Executive Director Brad Beacham says the fraternity’s board of directors made the decision following “confirmation of violations of the Fraternity’s law, policies and principles as well as violations of the policies of Florida State University. The violations were related to a recent unauthorized social activity and included the misuse of alcohol.”
FSU Autism Institute to Participate in Multi-Million Dollar Study
WCTV
The Autism Institute at the Florida State University College of Medicine is part of a new $8.3 million study to measure risk and resilience factors for autism in infants and toddlers…
UF has exceeded $1.5 billion fundraising goal
Gainesville Sun
The University of Florida is set to announce next week that it has exceeded the $1.5 billion goal of the Florida Tomorrow fundraising campaign…
SmartMoney: University of Florida National Bargain for Cost of College to Career
Sunshine State News
Recent graduates of the University of Florida received one of the best bargains in the nation in terms of the cost of their education compared to career earnings, according to a study by SmartMoney magazine…
University of Florida classes to be available on free course website
WUFT
The upcoming University of Florida online courses will appear similar to Stanford and others schools’ system through Coursera. Online students will soon be able to get a free look into the University of Florida learning experience…
A Tour of USF St. Petersburg’s New Student Center
WUSF News
Until recently, USF Saint Petersburg has been the definition of a “commuter school.” With no place for students to live on campus, many would come to class and then leave. That’s slowly been changing. First, a 370 bed residence hall was built a few years ago. And now, another 200 bed residential tower—along with a central gathering area for students—is in place, in the form of the new Student Center…
Judy Bense: For UWF, student retention is crucial
Pensacola News Journal
During her State of the University address this morning, University of West Florida President Judy Bense told students, faculty and staff that the university’s strategic plans have been successful despite a tough economic climate. In her hour-long speech, Bense updated about 300 people on the progress the university has made in the last four years and unveiled plans for the next four years…
State College System
Candidates for Brevard sheriff, state attorney speak at BCC
Florida Today
The forum was held at Brevard Community College in Cocoa and was moderated by FLORIDA TODAY public interest editor Matt Reed…
Report: FSCJ should add a chief of staff, eliminate exec VP
First Coast News
Among the 16 recommendations in the report is a call to create a chief of staff/chief operating officer position that would oversee all administrative activities of the college. MGT also recommends eliminating the executive vice president position, saying the majority of duties have been assumed by the newly established Vice President and Provost position.
FSCJ board agenda mentions ‘reorganization’ – without detail
Florida Times-Union (blog)
The agenda for Florida State College at Jacksonville’s board meeting next week includes four items that appear controversial, but offer no details. The agenda items read only “TBA” beyond the titles: collegewide reorganization, enhanced separation …
Indian River State College garners national accolades
Fort Pierce Tribune
U.S. News & World Report has ranked Indian River State College as the 10th top public regional college in the southern U.S. for 2013, moving it up two spots from last year…
Loxahatchee Groves streamlines development rules
Palm Beach Post
The Simon property, at the northwest corner, sits next to the future site of Palm Beach State College. Loxahatchee Groves anticipates it will be developed to a low-intensity commercial use…
Congressional Debate planned for Palm Beach State College
TCPalm
The Northern Palm Beach County Chamber of Commerce and Palm Beach State College have offered to host a Congressional Debate with Congressman Allen West and Democrat nominee, Patrick Murphy. The debate will be held at Palm Beach State College at the Eissey CampusTheatre in Palm Beach Gardens in October…
Panel Approves Only 1 of 7 Charter Applications
The Ledger
Polk State Lakeland Pathways would be a third high school on the campuses of Polk State College, joining one in Lakeland and another in Winter Haven…
Independent Colleges and Universities
B-CU Homecoming 2012: ‘A New Attitude’
Daytona Times
“A New Attitude, Living the Legacy” is the theme of this year’s Bethune-Cookman University‘s Homecoming. Festivities kicked off this week with a Wildcat Water Park and an Anti-Hazing Opening Ceremony…
BREAKING NEWS: Roads closed near Edward Waters College
ActionNewsJax.com
There are several road closures near the Edward Waters College campus due to a man that has barricaded himself in his home…
FAA Establishes New Center of Excellence for General Aviation
ATC Network
The core team also will include the Florida Institute of Technology, Iowa State University and Texas A&M University…
Presidential campaigns come alive at Lynn
Sun-Sentinel
From a butterfly ballot to ‘I Like Ike’ buttons, great moments in presidential history are being relived at a place that will soon be part of it: Lynn University, site of the third presidential debate on Oct. 22. ”Front Row Seat to Presidential History” which is free and open to the public at Lynn’s library, features hundreds of buttons, badges and bumper stickers. The mostly red, white and blue items date as far back as presidential campaign ribbons for Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln…
Political exhibit opens at Lynn University library
WPBF West Palm Beach
A new political exhibit opens Thursday afternoon at Lynn University. It features more than 100 items from John Clark’s political memorabilia collection, “Presidential Campaign Trail,” artifacts from the personal collections of American Studies professor Robert Watson, collections of Barbara Lucey, Susan Gillis and the Boca Raton Historical Society and a voting machine and infamous butterfly ballot from the 2000 election…
‘Kindie’ group rocks Davie university center
Sun-Sentinel
The school of rock was recently in session when Recess Monkey took the stage at Nova Southeastern University‘s Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center in Davie…
Nova Southeastern University Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Ecosystems …
WPTV
Coral reefs off our shores generate nearly 6 billion dollars for South Florida’s economy. The mission of protecting them is part of A new multi-million dollar facility that opened Thursday at Nova Southeastern University’s Oceanographic Center in Dania Beach. The Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Ecosystems Research is the largest in the U.S. and will focus on the South Florida reef ecosystem.
PBAU Distinguished Artists chamber series grows out of donor’s …
Palm Beach Daily News
Palm Beach Atlantic University has a new chamber series, thanks to Geoffrey Stringer’s impulse to take up the violin again after a more-than-40-year hiatus. Stringer, 68, and a part-time North Palm Beach resident, studied the violin from elementary school through high school. He left his music behind in college and became a banker…
Calling all entrepreneurs 50 and older
Sun-Sentinel
National Encore Entrepreneur Mentor Day at Nova Southeastern University is designed to help people over the age of 50 start or grow a business…
Stetson staging free musical ‘petting zoo’ for youths
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Stetson University‘s School of Music is hosting the fifth annual Musical Instrument Petting Zoo for children of all ages…
University of Tampa unveils improved athletics center
Tampa Bay Business Journal (blog)
University of Tampa will unveil a renovated and spacious athletic center with new locker rooms, weight rooms and training space all of which are twice the size of those in the previous center said Larry Marfise, UT’s director of athletics…
Yip Yap: Noted and Quoted FLHE Voices From Around the State
Shalala: Celebrating humanities and the arts at the U
MiamiHerald.com (registration)
Languages and literature. History and philosophy. The visual and performing arts. The arc of human expression and thought can be traced through the humanities and arts over millennia to the dawn of civilization. We have come to know ourselves through the representation of words, images, gestures and sounds that preserve the past, mediate the present, and enlighten the future…Donna E. Shalala is president of the University of Miami and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Commission on the Humanities and Social Science.
Stoffella: Celebrate Lincoln’s agricultural acts at Treasure Coast …
TCPalm
…Lincoln signed the act that established the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1862. A second action was the Morrill Act, known today as the Land-Grant College Act of 1862, which provided 30,000 acres in each state to establish and support agricultural and mechanical colleges to serve the interests of agriculture…Dr. Peter J. Stoffella is director of the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Indian River Research and Education Center.
Lessons learned from an Dateline/Rock Center intern
Flagler College Gargoyle
Marissa Marinan, a 21-year-old Flagler College Communications major, spent her summer roaming the halls of NBC’s New York studio after landing an internship with Dateline/Rock Center…
Florida Jewish vote for Obama shows slight drop
Sun-Sentinel
The results are neither unusual nor unexpected, said Frederick Greenspahn, a member of Florida Rabbis for Obama and eminent scholar for Jewish studies at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton…
‘Know your numbers:’ Groups join forces to battle diabetes ‘crisis’
Palm Beach Daily News
Registered nurse Eugenia Millender doesn’t have to look far to see evidence of the diabetes problem in America. As clinical director of Florida Atlantic University’s diabetes education and research center, proof comes to her…
Biden here again? Surrogates come to pitch presidential messages
Sun-Sentinel
Despite their advantage in South Florida, history shows Democrats can’t take those voters for granted and assume they’ll show up at the polls to cast ballots on Election Day. “You’ve got to go down there and energize those folks,” said Kathryn DePalo, a political scientist at Florida International University…
What Causes Lightning? Scientists Still Looking For Answers
Huffington Post
There are three big questions needing answers, said Joe Dwyer, a leading lightning physicist based at the Florida Institute of Technology…
Florida Pension Woes Here to Stay
HispanicBusiness.com
The Leroy Collins Institute’s latest review of the plans found that while the sluggish economy has contributed to the funds’ problems, deeper woes plague them. ”These municipal pension issues were not created overnight and can’t be changed overnight,” said David Matkin, a public administration professor at Florida State University, who studied Florida’s 492 municipal pension plans for the Tallahassee-based institute.
Forty-Nine to Become US Citizens at Lynn University
WPEC
Acting Field Office Director for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) West Palm Beach office Brett Rinehart will administer the Oath of Allegiance to 49 candidates to become America’s newest citizens during a special naturalization ceremony at Lynn University today Thursday, September 27. Lynn University President Dr. Kevin M. Ross will deliver introductory remarks, and Vice President for Enrollment Management Gareth Fowles will deliver the keynote address…
Does new Buchanan ad overstate alleged conflict of interest?
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
In an ad that began airing yesterday, Buchanan, R-Longboat Key, relies on clips from a blog run by a Republican in St. Petersburg that declares that [Keith] Fitzgerald has a “Egregious Conflict of Interest” because he voted on state budgets for 2008 and 2009 that included funding for New College of Florida, where Fitzgerald is a political science professor.
Polk State College Board Elects Its Chair
The Ledger
Winter Haven lawyer Mark Turner has been elected chair of Polk State College‘s district board of trustees. Turner takes the place of Teresa Martinez, who most recently held the one-year term as chair. She will serve out her term on the board, which expires in May 2013…
Grim news for searches of missing University of Florida student
Bradenton Herald
[Pedro] Bravo, a student at Gainesville’s Santa Fe College, told police that he fought with Aguilar, beating him for 10 to 15 minutes before leaving Aguilar “bloody, swollen and barely breathing or moving” in a wooded area, court records show. Police arrested Bravo, also 18, on the rarely used charge of depriving a crime victim of medical care. Before his Monday arrest, Bravo took detectives to an area near a Gainesville motorcycle shop where he said he left Aguilar. Investigators found no sign of the missing student. Bravo has not spoken to detectives since his arrest..
World’s shortest laser pulse could probe atomic world
Fox News
“Our pulse only travels about 20 nanometers in those 67 attoseconds,” said physicist Zenghu Chang of the University of Central Florida, whose team created the pulse. “Light is almost frozen for this short a pulse.”
Polls Under Fire as Obama’s Florida Lead Grows
HispanicBusiness.com
That’s troubling for Romney, considering a consensus among political experts that he can’t win the election without winning Florida. 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.”
University Town Center to break ground Oct. 16
Bradenton Herald
An uptick in new home construction nearby should then follow, said Sean Snaith, an economist with the University of Central Florida. “These are the types of projects we have been waiting to see for some time with the recession and housing collapse…
More jobs added in Sarasota-Manatee than previously believed
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
The success of the industries adding jobs, including construction and retail, are linked to Southwest Florida’s achievements in attracting retirees, said Sean Snaith, a University of Central Florida economist…
Four area entrepreneurs being honored at White House
Gainesville Sun
When Ethan Fieldman walks around University of Florida libraries or other popular study spots around Gainesville, he said he’s always amazed when Study Edge is open on students’ laptop screens…The company grew from providing services to UF students to the University of Central Florida and University of South Florida, and is now in Alabama and others states. He said the goal is to be in every university and college in the U.S. in three years …
Older voters look beyond Medicare, Social Security
Huffington Post
“It’s not just the cookie cutter that every senior here is totally dependent on Social Security and Medicare,” said Susan MacManus, a political scientist at the University of South Florida…
Releases and Web Stories
FAU Students Offered Tremendous Internship Opportunity
BocaNewsNow.com
BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) — Florida Atlantic University this morning announced that it is partnering with one of the leading charitable and social help groups in Broward County — and providing students an opportunity to get involved. Florida Atlantic University’s School of Social Work has partnered with Women In Distress (WID) of Broward County to offer internship opportunities for undergraduate students…
FIT Institute for Cross Cultural Managment Receives Grant
Brevard Times
MELBOURNE, Florida – Florida Institute of Technology’s Institute for Cross Cultural Management (ICCM) has received a $280,000 grant from the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI).
Wyclef Jean brings ‘Purpose’ book tour to Miami
Sacramento Bee
He’s scheduled to discuss the book and perform Friday night at Miami Dade College. The book focuses on Jean’s childhood in Haiti and his development as a musician after immigrating to the U.S…
Palm Beach Atlantic University Announces Master of Divinity Degree Program
Press Release
WEST PALM BEACH — Palm Beach Atlantic University will offer a Master of Divinity (M. Div.) degree program beginning next fall. President William M. B. Fleming, Jr. said that the Board of Trustees approved the program proposal at their meeting last week. ”The establishment of an M. Div. Program at PBA has long been awaited and perfectly reflects the founders’ vision for the University,” President Fleming said. “For 45 years, PBA has stood as a beacon for Christ. Now we have the opportunity to prepare graduates for even more fruitful careers in ministry.
Health Sciences Open Houses Showcase a World of Opportunity Oct. 2
Santa Fe College
At Santa Fe College’s Health Sciences Open House, 6 p. m. Tuesday, October 2, guests can explore career opportunities in healthcare, tour the state-of-the-art Health Sciences training facility and get a close-up view of these high-wage, high-demand …
