State University System
FAMU President Ammons Shares Goals with Faculty Senate
WCTV
FAMU President Dr. James Ammons shared his visions and goals for the university with faculty members as he addressed the Faculty Senate. The FAMU Faculty Senate is holding its retreat at the Teleconference Center. President Ammons started his address …
Alumni try to counter hazing scandal by showing FAMU’s strengths
Orlando Sentinel
A former study body vice president and a former Miss FAMU have teamed up to create a website that features dozens of homemade videos from alumni who want the public to know that the university is about much more than a flashy marching band that has …
FAU Fort Lauderdale tower faces tough struggle for survival
Sun-Sentinel
The faculty at Florida Atlantic University are usually united in opposing most budget cuts — unless it involves closing down small campuses. A proposal to close the downtown Fort Lauderdale tower and the Treasure Coast …
Subway debuts new café concept at FAU
Sun-Sentinel
The Florida Atlantic University campus in Boca Raton will get the first Subway Café in Florida, and one of many to come to South Florida soon, according to Subway Development Corp. chief executive, Larry Feldman…
NBC2 Investigates: The Adderall alternative?
NBC2 News
The NBC2 Investigators first told you about the alarming number of students using the Attention Deficit Disorder drug Adderall illegally as a study aide. Now, a local company is pushing an Adderall alternative on the campus of Florida Gulf Coast University, claiming it is safer than the prescription and legal without one. The product is called AddTabz, and the compound listed on the pill bottles is Ampheta-CDP…
Heart Health Institute to serve as ‘economic driver’
The Oracle
Though Florida’s State University System has seen $300 million in funding cuts, USF scored $6.9 million to start its USF Heart Health Institute.
University of Florida Responds To Post About Plans For Computer Science Department
Forbes
A Forbes article by contributing writer Steven Salzberg falsely claims that the University of Florida is eliminating the Computer Science Department. The Dean of the College of Engineering has put on the table for discussion a budget plan to reorganize the Computer & Information Science and Engineering Department…
USF Can’t Keep Everyone From Lakeland, Staff and Faculty Told
The Ledger
There will not be enough money to keep all the faculty and staff on the payroll while the University of South Florida‘s Lakeland operation is phased out, President Judy Genshaft told a somber crowd of employees Monday morning. Her message was dramatically different than one she gave during a Feb. 24 visit with faculty, staff and students, when she assured them all jobs would be kept…
Volunteers Needed for ‘Buried Life’ World Record Attempt
Patch.com
A Guinness World Record attempt will take place at the University of South Florida on Wednesday, and organizers are looking for volunteers to participate in the attempt and help the judge. The cast of MTV’s “The Buried Life,” in which four men travel the country crossing off a list of things to do before they die, is coming to USF to lead the attempt for the greatest number of people participating in a speed mixer at a single venue…
What’s next for Polytech-U?
WFSU
It was created by allowing the University of South Florida’s polytechnic campus to become independent. But Lynn Hatter reports even though it has a name, it doesn’t have much else at this point. Florida Polytechnic has no students, no buildings, …
UWF Master Plan aims to lure 1 million tourists downtown
Pensacola News Journal
The University of West Florida’s Campus Master Plan and a new strategy to attract up to 1 million new cultural heritage tourists to the downtown Pensacola area will be the focus of a special town hall meeting today from 10 am to 11 am at the …
UWF students react to new “hate crime”
WALA-TV FOX10
A week after University of West Florida Police began investigating two reports of nooses found on campus, many students are trying to move forward. The first incident was reported on Wednesday, April 11, when a noose was found …
State College System
Exclusive: Edison State College professors pressured by class overload
The News-Press
They are paid to teach a full load. And faculty members do that, and then some. Records show 95 of 161 professors, or 59 percent, are supplementing their otherwise middle-of-the-road salaries this semester by teaching as many as five extra courses. It is faculty’s version of overtime, one that boosts paychecks by as much as $9,304 for the four-month spring term…
PSC Students to Get Free Bus Rides With Citrus Connection and WHAT
The Ledger
Polk State College students in need of an excuse for missing class will be short one reason once a new program kicks into gear allowing them free city bus tickets…
Hospital, college team up to develop robotics
News Chief
Professionals at Winter Haven Hospital and Polk State College believe this could be the key to avoiding a shortage of doctors in the future. The hospital and the college are teaming up to provide rising high school seniors a chance to experience the …
Re-entry Center for Inmates Nears Completion
WCTV
Florida’s Department of Corrections and Tallahassee Community College have a similar goal. They’re building a center that will house, educate and prepare about 600 inmates for their next step. The construction site sits on the campus of Florida Public Safety Institute in Gadsden County…
Independent College and University System
FIT Co-organizes Astronautics Conference, Takes Home Paper Award
Brevard Times
Florida Institute of Technology teamed with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University to host the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Region 2 Student Conference, held earlier in April in Cape Canaveral, Florida…
Naples economic summit to deal with Comparative Analysis Project
The News-Press
Hundreds of business leaders have convened at Hodges University in Naples for a half-day economic summit during which researchers will discuss the results of their two-year Comparative Analysis Project. Hodges completed the study, which looks at how business and government leaders can work together, in partnership with the Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce and Collier County Government…
Stetson University named a Tree Campus USA by Arbor Day Foundation
SWVolusia News
The Arbor Day Foundation has named Stetson University a 2011 Tree Campus USA in honor of its commitment to effective community forestry management. This is the first year of recognition for Stetson University. Stetson achieved the designation by …
UM study reaffirms Hispanic medical paradox
Sun-Sentinel
A University of Miami study on lung cancer released on Monday confirms the “Hispanic paradox,” is still at work — but comes no closer to explaining why. Theories run the gamut from environmental factors to genetic makeup to lower smoking rates.
For-Profit and Career Colleges
Orlando Philharmonic, Full Sail University mix music and technology
Orlando Sentinel
For its annual fundraising gala, the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra partnered with Full Sail University to create a concert showcasing not only the Phil’s musicians but the technological know-how of Full Sail‘s students.
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Smith: Who Will Take on the Greed Merchants of College Loans?
Sunshine State News
Maybe you can find the courage to explain to our 2012 college grads how we let the banks and universities steal their future. I certainly can’t. Ask yourself this: Why doesn’t Florida have a task force devoted to taking on the greed merchants of secondary education? Why, instead, are we out there looking for a way to raise tuition on young people shackled with so few job prospects and so many college loans they don’t dare graduate?…
Gov. Scott reappoints 6 to Daytona State board
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Governor Rick Scott reappointed about 350 people to various boards Monday, including six to the Daytona State College board…Scott’s reappointments to the Daytona State College board were Robert Davidson (who goes by Bob Davis); Lloyd Freckleton; Betty Holness ; Forough Hosseini; Dwight Lewis and John Tanner…
Florida Governor Scott reappoints 3 Edison State College trustees
The News-Press
Rick Scott today reappointed three trustees at Edison State College, but one seat will remain vacant for the time being. Incumbents Brian Chapman, Jr., Marjorie Starnes-Bilotti and Eddie Webb will continue serving. Their terms were set to end Monday …
Last call at Sunrise bars may soon be 4 am
Sun-Sentinel
Bars in Sunrise may be at a “competitive disadvantage” if forced to close earlier than nearby watering holes, said Peter Ricci, director of Florida Atlantic University’s Hospitality Management Program…
Steve Forbes to Deliver FSC Commencement Address
The Ledger
Forbes Media Chairman and Editor-in-Chief Steve Forbes will give the Florida Southern College commencement address Saturday, the college announced Monday. Florida Southern President Anne Kerr landed the prestigious speaker …
Florida Senator Promotes New Dream Act
NPR
KEITH: Juan Escalante is a recent graduate of Florida State University and describes his immigration status as in limbo. He works with a group called DreamActivist.org and says he has mixed feelings about the Rubio alternative.
Scott names two new members to task force to look at Stand Your Ground, public …
MiamiHerald.com (blog)
Scott, along with Attorney General Pam Bondi, selected Sheriff Jerry Demings, of Orange County and Chief David L. Perry, the chief of Florida State University Police Department. Some are crying foul over the makeup of the 19-member task force, which includes several gun-friendly legislators and two of the lawmakers who helped write the Stand Your Ground law…
Romney’s pick for VP: Who’s it going to be?
CBC.ca
The VP pick is “all about either shoring up a weakness of yours to keep people from talking about it or emphasizing, ‘Here’s what this election’s about,’ ” said John Barry Ryan, a political science professor at Florida State University who conducts research on campaigns and media coverage of elections.
Federal student loan interest may double
WZVN-TV
“This is going to create more debt on the backs of students,” says Joe Gilchrist, VP of Student Financial Services at Hodges University…
Online recruiting service serves as matchmaker for athletes, schools
Washington Post
SAN FRANCISCO — When Rachel Cho decided at the beginning of her senior year of high school in British Columbia to pursue a collegiate running career in the United States, she hadn’t even heard of Nova Southeastern University in Florida…The school and athlete got connected in what has become an increasingly popular fashion, by using the website beRecruited.com. Like a form of online dating to connect interested athletes and schools, beRecruited has brought efficiency to what had been an overwhelming process…
Father pins murder of NSU professor on his son
MiamiHerald.com
The younger Tundidor has admitted taking part in the crimes, but accused his father of carrying out the April 2010 stabbing death of Joseph Morrissey, a Nova Southeastern University professor, who was in the process of evicting the elder Tundidor…
Gov. Scott re-does appointments and 51 disappear
MiamiHerald.com
The most notable appointments that were revoked were Roderick Jones of Redington Shores to the Board of Chiropractic Medicine and Pinellas County Clerk of Courts Ken Burke to the St. Petersburg College Board of Trustees. Jones is the son of Sen. Dennis Jones, R-Seminole, who had antagonized Scott and his chief of staff, Steve MacNamara, for refusing to meet with the governor to hear his pitch on privatizing prisons in South Florida during the legislative session that ended March 9. (Jones, who has a high-level job at St. Pete College, also supported Burke’s appointment)…
Disney builds up the less-glamorous ‘guts’ of its hotel rooms
Baltimore Sun
“With the economy the way it is, you drop back to the basics: ‘How can we steal business from our competitors because our hotels aren’t full?’ ” said Scott Smith, a faculty member at the University of Central Florida‘s Rosen College of Hospitality Management. “One of the things you can do is lower your rate, which is not smart. But the other thing you can do is offer things that people see value in.”
Movers and Shakers: Romney hires Jeb press flack, UF Board of Trustees …
MiamiHerald.com (blog)
University of Florida Board of Trustees Chairman Carlos Alfonso is resigning. Alfonso, a founding trustee in 2001, left with the understanding that Gov. Rick Scott would not reappoint him, according to the Gainesville Sun. Alfonso‘s position was one of about 200 left in limbo when the Senate failed to confirm appointments…
Some advisory council members want DEP to consider effects of sea level rise …
The Florida Current
Peter C. Frederick, a council member and a University of Florida research professor, asked whether the plan discusses sea level rise and he was told it does not. ”If we don’t address it we are never going to do anything about it, or at least assess the threat,” Frederick said. “You must have thought about it?”
Expedition points out need for protected wildlife corridor in Florida
Florida Times-Union
The members note that past conservationists from groups such as Defenders of Wildlife and Audubon of Florida, along with researchers at Florida’s universities such as University of Florida‘s Larry Harris, have long focused on protecting landscape linkages and corridors…
Hispanics Seem to Have Better Odds of Lung Cancer Survival
MSN Health & Fitness
“This is important because it shows that our findings are indicative of the Hispanic population in general and not specific to specific groups of Hispanics,” lead study author Ali Saeed, an M.D./Ph.D. candidate at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, said in a journal news release…
UT professor’s book explains Mormonism
Tbo.com
But while the religion has its quirks, its practices shouldn’t cause people not to vote for the presumptive Republican nominee, said University of Tampa professor Ryan Cragun.
University of Tampa student ‘Paddling for a Purpose’
Bay News 9
University of Tampa student Hector Manley is about to embark on a journey of a lifetime; paddling the entire length of the Mississippi River. Manley is calling his 2300 mile journey ‘Paddling for a Purpose.’..
Releases and Web Stories
Flagler College Science Students Selected for Research Program
ReadMedia (press release)
AUGUSTINE, FL (04/23/2012)(readMedia)– Flagler College students Kassandra Ferguson and Daphne Pariser have been to chosen to participate in the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates Program, a summer research program …
