JU Golf Team at The Players
First Coast News
The Jacksonville University golf team volunteers their time to chauffeur pro golfers at The Players.

Trial Resumes In Nova Professor Murder Trial
CBS Local
A Fort Lauderdale jury is listening to transcripts Monday taken from the ex-girlfriend of a suspect in the 2010 murder of a Nova Southeastern University professor…

Testimony wraps up in Tundidor trial
Local 10
Testimony wrapped up Monday morning in the trial of a man who could face the death penalty if he’s convicted of killing a Nova Southeastern University professor…

Palm Beach Atlantic University names new president
Palm Beach Post
Palm Beach Atlantic University choose one of its own as its new president, the school announced today. Affirming the recommendation of the presidential search committee, trustees today elected William M. B. Fleming Jr. as the university’s eighth president…

No more interim: Palm Beach Atlantic University names Fleming …
South Florida Business Journal
Palm Beach Atlantic University trustees removed the “interim” from William M.B. Fleming Jr.’s title as they permanently appointed him president of the nonprofit university…

UT grand oak going for short ride
Tbo.com
It is no small matter to move about 70 feet of shade from one spot on the campus of the University of Tampa to another spot about 400 feet away. But arborists expect to complete the task by the end of the week…

Yip Yap: Noted and Quoted FLHE Voices from Around the State

Editorial: Chopping higher education
Tbo.com
There always is debate about what should be done to attract new businesses and bolster economic development. But one investment has consistently proved its ability to create jobs, build wealth and generate new enterprises: higher education…

Was the FAMU Hazing Actually a Hate Crime?
The Root
Following Florida A&M University student Robert Champion’s death, Ebony contributor Zerlina Maxwell wonders if Champion’s abuse was really simply a hazing ritual gone terribly wrong. Champion’s parents revealed that their son was gay after his death, and now Maxwell and others are curious if the fatal abuse Champion suffered was because he wanted to join the band or if it was because of his sexuality…

Smith: Note to Steve MacNamara: Don’t Let the Door Hit You on Your Way Out
Sunshine State News
Scott’s better-by-far option is to point MacNamara toward the door, tell him to give up his $189000-a-year salary and return to Florida State University, where he has tenure as a professor. Or he can advise his insider chief of staff to set up shop as …

Education reform is a Players priority
Florida Times-Union
In line with this pledge, The Players has created a $500000 scholarship endowment fund at both the University of North Florida and Florida State College at Jacksonville. By the completion of the new endowments, The Players will become one of the largest scholarship providers in the Jacksonville area…Steven Wallace is the president of Florida State College at Jacksonville.

US nuns weigh Vatican’s rebuke
Palm Beach Post
In the last century, nuns quietly outgrew their traditional role as obedient handmaidens of the all-male authoritarian Catholic hierarchy, said Edward Sunshine, a professor of theology at Barry University in Miami Shores…

Artifacts from 1700s found in Ocala
WFTV Orlando
“The area where they are working is the oldest part of the city of Ocala,” said Dr. Willet Boyer, archeologist at College of Central Florida Boyer said when he saw construction in front of City Hall, he asked the city if he could set up an urban dig that worked with the construction schedule…

Florida students urge freeze to avoid higher payments
Orlando Sentinel
If the interest rate doubles, that will really hurt the people just hanging on right now,” said Stephanie Rosendorf, 21, of Coral Springs, a student at Florida Atlantic University.

Anthropologist finds explanation for hominin brain evolution in famous fossil
R & D Magazine
One of the world’s most important fossils has a story to tell about the brain evolution of modern humans and their ancestors, according to Florida State University evolutionary anthropologist Dean Falk…

Port St. Lucie native, top Gov. Scott spokeswoman, joining Romney campaign
TCPalm
Port St. Lucie native Amy Graham will head north to join Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts campaign team after serving as a top Gov. Rick Scott spokeswoman since he first got elected in 2010. The 25-year-old Port St. Lucie High School graduate has been a public relations staple at the Capitol since her Florida State University days…

The Ph.D. Now Comes With Food Stamps
The Chronicle of Higher Education
“The first time we went to the office to apply, I felt like I had arrived from Eastern Europe to Ellis Island,” he [Elliott Stegal - Northwest Florida State College] says. “We all had that same ragged, poor look in our eyes.”…

The Professor Is On Food Stamps
Care2.com
51-year-old Elliott Stegall is a graduate student finishing his dissertation in film studies at Florida State University. He and his wife have two young children; they receive food stamps, Medicaid, and aid from the Women, Infants, and Children program (WIC). Stegall currently teaches two courses each semester in the English department at Northwest Florida State College, in Niceville, Florida, and has also painted houses, worked for a catering company and cleaned condominiums to make ends meet…

As he works toward citizenship, PSC student president fights for others
News Chief
Juan Soto-Avella took a bold step last fall and stood up at a meeting of the Polk County legislative delegation to announce he is an undocumented immigrant. Six months later, he’s still undocumented, but he is also the recently elected student body president at Polk State College‘s Lakeland campus, where he is an honors student with plans to major in accounting…

Milford named TU professor of the year
WALB-TV
During the past two years, [Bill] Milford has overseen the expansion of the Social Work program to include a cohort of students meeting at Tallahassee Community College.

Gen Y grads more likely to launch start-ups
USA TODAY
Lauren Berger, 27, who calls herself the “Intern Queen,” launched the foundation for her start-up while she was a communications major at the University of Central Florida…

Congress clashes over student loan rate
Sun-Sentinel
“We want to keep interest-rates low, but only if the government is willing to recognize the fact that they are spending money irresponsibly,” said Chris McGee, 21, of Orlando, a student at the University of Central Florida and chairman of the Florida Federation of College Republicans. “All the money that is being thrown into the health-care bill is hurting America, hurting job growth, hurting most businesses. Instead of using that money to hurt all those people, you can use it to help the college students and keep their interest rates low.”

Olive Garden, Red Lobster, LongHorn launch e-gift cards
Orlando Sentinel
“It’s a good idea,” said Chris Muller, a former University of Central Florida restaurant professor who’s now dean of Boston University’s hospitality school…

Everglades scientists play risky game of tag with near-extinct predator
MiamiHerald.com
But Willcox and Yannis Papastamatiou, a University of Florida scientist, managed to secure the line around both the saw and the tail of their quarry: an endangered smalltooth sawfish, the rarest marine species in US waters…

Death of US College Band Member Spotlights Hazing
Voice of America
“Hazing is the idea of belonging to a sub-group, either professionally or socially and sometimes ethnically, people that have the same values as you do,” said University of Florida Sociology Professor Frederick Shenkman…

A Slew of Ballot Initiatives Could Help Romney
The Fiscal Times
“That might be what Romney is looking for. He’s worried about getting evangelical support, but if he can use those issues on the ballot to gin up support from a demographic group that is skeptical of his political conservative credentials, then I think it might have an effect,” said Daniel Smith, an expert on direct democracy at the University of Florida…

UM student victim of hit-and-run
Local 10
Perry Gresh of Philadelphia said the man who nearly killed his 19-year-old daughter, a student at the University of Miami, needs to turn himself in. “There’s gonna be a price to pay for his crime,” Gresh said. says “He’s a coward.

Depression in middle age linked to dementia
CNN
Dr. Charles Nemeroff, chair of psychiatry at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, says there is already “quite a bit of evidence” that depression is a risk factor for dementia…

Gay activists, allies gather in Miami for first White House LGBT Conference on …
MiamiHerald.com (blog)
On Monday, he [Bruce Williams] and about 160 other gay activists from throughout Florida participated in the first White House LGBT Conference on Aging, held at the University of Miami’s Clinical Research Building in Miami…

Port gets mayor’s backing, but all’s quiet on transportation projects
Florida Times-Union
The political momentum has swung toward transportation projects tied to the port and economic development, said Matthew Corrigan, chairman of the political science department of University of North Florida.

25 religious leaders asked Jacksonville mayor to support gay anti …
Florida Times-Union
“It’s about jobs, and it’s about fairness, so I don’t really see what the issue is here,” said Tara Trueblood, director of the University of North Florida Interfaith Center…

New Push to Treat the Other Diabetes
Wall Street Journal (blog)
People who test positive are asked to join a monitoring study that estimates the level of risk for developing the disease, says Henry Rodriguez, a TrialNet principal investigator at the University of South Florida…

A passion to survive and a passion to teach mark USF award winners
Chicago Tribune
The two awards were highlights of the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee spring commencement on Sunday at the Manatee Convention Center. Shawna Machado, 40, won the Outstanding Graduate Award and earned a Bachelor’s in Psychology despite being homeless since September, 2010. Kate Shackelford, 21, daughter of a prominent Manatee County farming family, won the Golden Bull and Outstanding Leadership awards and hopes to blaze new trails in teaching rather than farming…

Releases and Web Stories

Facebook goes public: A discussion about the future of the Internet giant …Live on the web
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
MIAMI, May 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following release is being issued by Florida International University: WHAT: Florida International University is hosting a panel discussion for journalists covering Facebook’s upcoming initial public offering. FIU experts from a wide array of fields, including business, law, engineering and communication, will discuss what to expect and what reporters should look out for as the world’s largest social media site goes public. The discussion will be streamed live on Facebook and Ustream, where viewers are encouraged to post questions and comments…