State University System
All 93 FAU accounting grads get jobs
Sun-Sentinel
Florida Atlantic University’s ”honors” accounting graduates don’t have to worry about finding a job. Since 2009, FAU‘s accounting scholars program has achieved a 100 percent job placement rate. In the 2013 program, 23 students graduated with master’s degrees in accounting and are starting jobs with annual salaries averaging more than $55,000, according to FAU…
FAU, city agree to agree on off-campus housing
Sun-Sentinel
City officials and staff sat down with Florida Atlantic University over plans to revamp the Northwest 20th Street corridor into an off-campus college town and came away with an agreement to cooperate from now on…
FGCU foundation declines developer’s offer of 600-acre land donation
Naples Daily News
Florida Gulf Coast University has backed away from a developer’s offer to donate more than 600 acres for a future expansion of its sprawling campus in Estero. The developer, O.J. Buigas, CEO of Private Equity Group in Fort Myers, expected the university’s foundation to approve the donation at its next meeting, June 5…
How A Florida Medical School Cares For Communities In Need
NPR (blog)
If it’s a Monday, you can usually find Dr. David Brown parked next to a lake in Miami, spending the day inside a 36-foot-long RV. He’s not on vacation. Brown is chief of family medicine at Florida International University‘s medical school. The RV is the school’s mobile health clinic…
Tuition Discount Alert: 50 Great Colleges Desperately Seeking Students
Forbes
Noted institutions like Lewis & Clark College in Portland Oregon, the University of Maryland at College Park and Sarasota’s New College of Florida are on NACAC’s “we need students” list…
With new luxury dorm, Orlando philanthropists offer Hillel evergreen funding model
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
It’s a $60 million, 600,000-square-foot luxury dormitory at the nation’s second-largest college campus, the University of Central Florida in this city. When it opens in August, the new dorm will push the bounds of cushiness.
UCF med students help treat patients at free clinic
WFTV Orlando
Students at the University of Central Florida’s medical school will get some valuable experience and help the community by treating uninsured patients at a new free clinic…
Expansion OK’d for Fanatics Inc. office space in Southpoint
Jacksonville Daily Record
The St. Johns River Water Management District is reviewing plans for The Arc Village on almost 17 acres along Hodges Boulevard in South Jacksonville. It has been described on other plans as a community at 3615 and 3631 Hodges Blvd. The village is designed as an affordable rental community for adults, age 18 and older, with intellectual and development disabilities…The five group homes are within Arlington, where there are two, St. Nicholas, West Jacksonville and Mandarin. A college program for young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities is on the campus of the University of North Florida, the site says…
Jolie praised for writing about preventive double mastectomy
Tbo.com
That ability to better inform women and men about their risk is the focus of a $2.8 million grant issued last week to the University of South Florida. The five-year study will track 5,000 breast cancer patients nationwide who have Aetna health insurance…
State College System
$10K 4-year degree being offered at College of Central Florida
WFTV Orlando
The College of Central Florida in Marion County is offering a four-year bachelor’s degree for $10,000 this fall.
Edison College considered leasing castle
Fox 4
During the height of the recession in Southwest Florida, Edison State College, funded by your tax dollars, considered leasing a castle in France. The college discussed using tax dollars to open a branch campus in northern France…
FSCJ downsizes, eliminates seven vice president positions and two divisions
Florida Times-Union
The Florida State College at Jacksonville board approved a new organization chart for the college Tuesday that eliminates two free-standing divisions and drops seven vice presidents down to lower-pay positions…
Retired jets may have new mission at sea
The News Herald
The two F-101 Voodoo aircraft recently removed from the Panama City Marina and Gulf Coast State College are now being proposed for use as artificial reefs …
Economic Council of PBC enjoys legislative success
BizPac Review
One of the shared priorities included appropriations of $6.5 million to Palm Beach State College for its planned Loxahatchee Grove campus which will bring much needed job training to the central western section of the county…
Scott gets last-minute sales pitches on spending plan
Palm Beach Post
A similar tactic is being used by Palm Beach State College, which is eager to have Scott endorse $6.5 million in state funding for the school’s Loxahatchee Groves campus…
Friendly competition proves a little bit ‘can’ go a long way
Sun-Sentinel
Participating Canstruction teams are Hedrick Brothers Construction, hughesumbanhowar architects, Leo A Daly/The Weitz Company, architectural students from Palm Beach State College, PGAL/Kaufman Lynn Construction, Suffolk Construction and…
Independent Colleges and Universities
Colleges to watch out for in the future
International Counselor
…While I have not had a chance to read the book [College (Un)Bound by Jeff Selingo] yet (it has been just released), I have learned that he singles out 19 colleges which comprise “a short list of forward-thinking universities to keep an eye on…These are just a sampling of colleges that have adopted strategies and programs that will help prove the value of their degree in the years ahead.”
- Ball State University
- City University of New York
- Cornell University
- Drexel University
- Georgia State University
- Goucher College
- Lynn University
- Northeastern University
Yip Yap: Noted and Quoted FLHE Voices from Around the State
Florida AM University’s legacy is one of improving lives, community
Sun-Sentinel
Over the past 18 months, Florida A&M University has become an institution of national interest for a lot of the wrong reasons. But as the media repeatedly asked what went wrong at FAMU and focused on unflattering news stories, it may have been easy for the general public to miss more prominent yet less told stories of what goes right at FAMU…Dr. Larry Robinson in interim president, Florida A&M University…
Letter: Roberts Academy Great Transitional School for Children With Dyslexia
The Ledger
This year was my granddaughter’s first year at Roberts Academy at Florida Southern College. It has been by far the best year ever for my daughter and for my granddaughter. This academy is such a wonderful treasure in Lakeland…Doug Wimberly – Lakeland, FL
74 years after graduating high school, 91-year-old woman receives college degree
The Republic
Some 74 years after graduating from high school, a 91-year-old woman received a bachelor’s degree from Daytona State College. College officials say Irene Lewis may be the oldest graduate in the school’s 53-year history…
Public forums for KCKCC academic vice-president finalists
The Kansas City Kansan
Dr. Michael Vitale – Senior Vice President, Academic Affairs at Daytona State College in Daytona Beach, Fla., Dr. Vitale previously served as Associate Vice President, College of Arts and Sciences at Daytona State College in Daytona Beach, Fla…
Reaching the big time: Fort Myers film hits Cannes
Florida Weekly
CHASE For grass-roots glory on the silver screen, it’s hard to match Steve Chase, born and raised in Naples, a filmmaker and teacher of fine arts photography at Edison State College…
Take the Aquatic Highway to Florida State Parks
Huffington Post
Southward lies Caladesi Island State Park, with a beach consistently ranked among the world’s Top 10 by Florida International University coastal geologist Stephen Leatherman, also known as Dr. Beach. Leatherman considers 50 criteria when making his picks, including current, sand quality and water clarity. Caladesi scores high in all areas, but the lack of crowds makes it especially appealing…
S. Florida’s housing woes make us one of the most distressed metro areas
Sun-Sentinel
“I think we have become more adept at managing our finances,” said Jorge Salazar-Carrillo, an economics professor who directs the Center of Economic Research at Florida International University…
Baseball improves diversity among senior administrators, employment of women …
Washington Post
While Major League Baseball teams improved racial diversity in hiring senior administrators, the employment of women is still lagging, according to the annual report by Richard Lapchick’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports at the University of Central Florida…
In Miami, more hospital prices may see light of day
MiamiHerald.com
As healthcare reform changes the way consumers pay for insurance coverage, prices will become a bigger factor in consumer decisions, said Steven Ullmann, a professor of health management and policy at the University of Miami…
Speakers, performers, sponsors sought for TEDxJacksonville
Florida Times-Union (blog)
The speakers there included Parvez Ahmed, director of the newly established Center for Sustainable Business Practices at the University of North Florida…
Paintball plan wins business competition
Tbo.com
Undergraduate Casey Henry had to sell a panel of entrepreneurs on her passion. Paintball. “It sounded pretty lame compared to everything else,” the 21-year-old University of South Florida senior said. “But they liked the plan. It was all buttoned down …
PBS Offers Guide to Cord-Cutting and Defense of Piracy
SF Weekly (blog)
The worst part of this section presents the personal musings of some dude named Dan Reimold, an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Tampa and keeper of the blog College Media Matters…
Compelling need to help difficult school kids – expert
Voxy
Professor Bill Evans, Director of the School of Education at the University of West Florida, is a visiting Canterbury Fellow lecturing and researching at UC, looking into issues relating to students with serious problems…
Autism advocate tells story, offers tips
Pensacola News Journal
Autism advocate Temple Grandin spoke this morning at the Flying High With Autism conference at the University of West Florida…
Releases and Web Stories
Carlyon promoted to Flagler College Assistant Director of Alumni Relations
ReadMedia (press release)
AUGUSTINE, FL (05/14/2013)(readMedia)– Flagler College has announced that Kerri Carlyon has been promoted to Assistant Director of Alumni Relations.
Florida Tech Faculty Members Honored for Excellence
SpaceCoastDaily.com
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Three Florida Institute of Technology faculty members recently earned the university’s 2013 Faculty Excellence Awards for outstanding performance.
Fourteen SF Students Graduate from Entrepreneurship Academy
Santa Fe College
Fourteen Santa Fe College students recently graduated from the Entrepreneurship Academy (EA). This group is the fourth class to graduate from the EA…
UF International Center recognizes oustanding area teachers
University of Florida
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida International Center has recognized four area teachers for international endeavors in their classrooms…
University of Miami study: Companies in states with weaker economies provide …
Science Codex
Companies located in more economically-troubled states provide a greater opportunity for investors than companies in other states according to new research by the University of Miami School of Business Administration…
