Florida Higher Ed Capitol Clips:
Scott urges universities to hold the line on tuition
Gainesville Sun
Gov. Rick Scott is making a personal appeal to all 12 state university presidents, meeting them in person or talking to them by phone to reiterate his commitment not to raise tuition as they meet with their respective boards of trustees to approve next year’s budgets…
Scott opposes a tuition increase based on inflation
The Ledger (blog)
As he continued to meet with state university presidents, Gov. Rick Scott today reiterated his opposition to any moves by the schools to raise tuition this year, including relying on an automatic inflation adjuster that is in the current law…
State University System
FAU committee recommends increase in budget but not in tuition
Palm Beach Post
Florida Atlantic University’s acting president and the school’s top academic administrator said they have made no decision on whether to retain an instructor who ignited controversy last semester by asking students to write “Jesus” on a piece of paper and step on it as part of an intercultural communications class…
FAU plans to give raises, add faculty
Sun-Sentinel
Florida Atlantic University plans to give employees raises, hire more faculty and invest in biotech at its Jupiter campus as part of $21 million in increased state money.
Why FAU professor’s status still undecided after four months
WPEC
It’s been since March and Florida Atlantic University still hasn’t made a decision on whether to fire or keep a professor who made national headlines during the now infamous “jesus stomping” incident…
Fla. Poly to Have Confirmed Board
The Ledger
Florida Polytechnic University board members learned Tuesday they should soon have a fully confirmed board…
FSU produces 10 Fulbright Fellows
Florida Flambeau
Waiting to be scattered across the rippling curves of the globe, 10 Florida State University students have been awarded Fulbright Scholarship Awards, thus becoming Fulbright scholars, travelers of academic mind…
Will The New Uniform Athlete Agents Act Continue To Pander To The NCAA?
Forbes
Academic leaders at Florida State University played an influential role in drafting the original UAAA…
New College of Florida to Host Female Middle Eastern Students
WUSF News
New College of Florida unveiled a three-year pilot project Tuesday to provide Middle Eastern women a higher education…
Careers After College Must Be Key Factor When Innovating Higher Education
Independent Voter Network
…Some universities are moving to reflect economic needs. The University of Central Florida developed a partnership to build a new $655 million Veterans Administration Medical Center at their Lake Nona-based Medical City Campus. Additionally, a residential, office and retail development “creative village” complex will be built on a 68-acre plot of land near the university’s Orlando campus. This would be home to several digital media and creative companies, as well as offer another academic space for UCF. It would accompany the current UCF Center for Emerging Media, located next door, which offers an interactive studio for video-game designers…
MSN: UCF a university for the yuppie rich kids
Orlando Business Journal (blog)
“Be voted the world’s best parent by sending your growing yuppie to a college, such as University of Central Florida, where the dorms come with private bathrooms, walk-in closets and a Zen garden,” said the story with a picture of one of UCF’s dorm …
Blast of refrigerant injures two at UF
Gainesville Sun
Two men working on a chiller unit at the University of Florida were hospitalized after a pipe burst near where they were working Monday afternoon, blasting them with refrigerant…
Scientists hope lab program saves Florida butterfly
Gainesville Sun
University of Florida researchers are hoping to jumpstart a captive breeding program of this rare butterfly…
UF Lab Develops the Next Hurricane Hunters
NBC 6 South Florida
The University of Florida has built tiny airplanes and subs, which they say could be “the next hurricane hunters.”
State College System
Remediation If You Want It
Inside Higher Ed
Community college students in Florida will soon be able to decide to skip remediation and enroll directly in credit-bearing courses, even if college advisers or placement tests say they have remedial needs. And recent high school graduates in the state won’t even need to take placement tests, because they will be deemed college-ready by holding a high school diploma. The shifts in Florida’s remedial education policies are part of a broad bill the state’s Legislature passed and Gov. signed into law last month. The legislation will have major ramifications for students at Florida’s 28 two-year colleges, and perhaps beyond.
FDLE rules that officer’s shooting on IRSC’s Fort Pierce campus justified
TCPalm
Bullet holes are seen in the back window of a pickup truck parked at the Indian River State College’s Treasure Coast Public Safety Training Complex at Kirby Loop and Rogers Road as Fort Pierce Police …
Teacher Education Grads Honored
The Northwest Florida Daily News
The Teacher Education Department at Northwest Florida State College recently held a pinning ceremony to recognize the 18 students who completed the Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education degree and two students who completed the Bachelor of Science in Middle Grades Mathematics degree during the Spring term…
Independent Colleges and Universities
Ave Maria Students Give Personal Testimonies on Mission Trip to …
The Cardinal Newman Society
Ave Maria University students recently accompanied President Jim Towey on a six-day mission trip to Calcutta, India, “following in the very steps of Mother Teresa,” the University reported…
Flagler Enactus 2013 national champions
St. Augustine Record
For the third time, Flagler College won the U.S. Enactus National Championship, and will represent the nation at the Enactus World Cup in Cancun, Mexico, on Sept. 29…
Florida College in Temple Terrace renovating 2 buildings
Bay News 9
Florida College is spending $2.5 million to renovate two buildings on the North Glen Arven Avenue campus…
Jacksonville Journal: Construction begun on new JU building
Florida Times-Union
Officials at Jacksonville University have begun construction on the school’s new College of Health Sciences building…
NEW: University offers to sell Little Salt Spring
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
The University of Miami is offering to sell Little Salt Spring, an archaeological site that it has used for decades of research, to Sarasota County…
Yip Yap: Noted and Quoted FLHE Voices from Around the State
Jones: Coaches, choose your words wisely
Florida Today
University of Florida offensive line coach Tim Davis was joking when he called Nick Saban the devil at a Melbourne booster club meeting, of course. Saban gave the man a job before. You know, fed his family…
Pathways 2 Prosperity program completes first year
Ocala (blog)
The goal, according to Sara LeFils with the College of Central Florida, was to better prepare students for their senior year and future employment…
FAMU fires athletic director Horne
Tallahassee.com
FAMU athletic director Derek Horne was fired Tuesday after almost four years of unsuccessfully trying to help the school’s athletic department dig out from a huge financial deficit…
Mr. FAMU: Tommy Mitchell, 73, stays close to his alma mater
Tallahassee Democrat (blog)
As [Tommy] Mitchell approaches his 74th birthday this Friday, his Rattler roots continue to grow and spread. He was recently re-elected to a second three-year term as president of FAMU’s National Alumni Association…
Allen West’s wife removed as FAU trustee
Sun-Sentinel (blog)
Angela Graham-West has been abruptly removed from the Florida Atlantic University Board of Trustees. Graham-West, the wife of former U.S. Rep. Allen West, didn’t attend Tuesday’s meeting, and Chairman Anthony Barbar announced that her term had ended, even though she’d only served two years of a six-year term. The reason it ended so quickly, it turns out, was that the Senate failed to confirm her nomination for two consecutive years, which was made by Gov. Rick Scott in May 2011. Under state law, she can no longer serve and can’t be considered for reappointment for a year. Graham-West, reached at her office, blamed the removal on a “paperwork deficiency.” ”My understanding is my paperwork wasn’t in. That’s all it was,” she said, adding it was a disappointment. “These things happen. This is is the way it has to be.”
Flying Space Toasters: Electrified Exoplanets Really Feel the Heat
Universe Today
Overheated and overinflated, hot Jupiters are some of the strangest extrasolar planets to be discovered by the Kepler mission… and they may be even more exotic than anyone ever thought. A new model proposed by Florida Gulf Coast University astronomer Dr. Derek Buzasi suggests that these worlds are intensely affected by electric currents that link them to their host stars. In Dr. Buzasi’s model, electric currents arising from interactions between the planet’s magnetic field and their star’s stellar wind flow through the interior of the planet, puffing it up and heating it like an electric toaster…
Tallahassee Rap Song Soars To 20000 Views
WFSU
Andrew Mannheimer is a southern boy from Tallahassee who loves his home town so much he’s sticking around to get his Ph.D. in sociology at Florida State University. He works there now as a co-teacher for a class on sociology and hip-hop…
GUILTY: Thomas Fenech, Attempted Murder, During FAU Student Drug Deal
BocaNewsNow.com
Thomas Fenech, accused by Boca Raton Police of shooting an AK-47 haphazardly into a parking lot — when a drug deal involving FAU students went bad — has been found guilty of second degree attempted murder. He was booked back into the Palm Beach County Jail on Monday. BocaNewsNow.com is awaiting word on his sentence. The 20-year-old Seminole County native was a student at Palm Beach State College at the time of the late October, 2011 incident…
Miami quadruplets graduate high school
MiamiHerald.com
Though the sisters have diverse interests and, according to their mother, “very, very different personalities,” the four plan to attend Miami Dade College.
New Stetson hoops coach Williams ready to get to work
Daytona Beach News-Journal
“I have to recruit them back to Stetson University,” Williams said. “Sometimes that’s a little challenging, but if they’re open to what I have to say and who I am, I’m going to do everything I can to get them back.
What they’re saying about new Stetson coach Corey Williams
Daytona Beach News-Journal
“Corey Williams is an outstanding choice to be the head basketball coach at Stetson University. He is a tremendous person who has worked hard and prepared himself throughout his career to be a head coach.
Big hole near Winter Park baffles, stabilizes after threatening homes
Orlando Sentinel
Manoj Chopra, a University of Central Florida civil-engineering professor, thinks the increased rainfall in the area may have caused the sinkhole. “I’m not surprised at all, ” Chopra said. “That area is very prone to sinkholes.”
Indictment halts UCF’s hiring plans
Orlando Sentinel
Last year, the University of Central Florida began courting — and paying — a Rhode Island expert to join UCF’s sports-management program. His name: Daniel E. Doyle. And even though Doyle was in the midst of a spending controversy at the University of Rhode Island’s Institute of International Sports, UCF still wanted him. Doyle, after all, was a high-profile guy — a sports scholar who promoted the virtues of youth sports and had attracted the likes of Bill Clinton and Colin Powell to his events…
Miami Marlins account for 20 percent of baseball’s declining ticket sales
MiamiHerald.com
Sean Snaith, an economist at the University of Central Florida, agreed that the Marlins’ loss should be measured within the pool of other teams’ losses. Measuring it against the net loss for the entire league will distort the portions for each team. “You’re comparing the biggest loser to some of the gainers,’’ Snaith said. “Which makes them an even bigger loser.”
Study about PolitiFact — OK to call it a study?
Poynter.org
Dr. James Wright of the University of Central Florida’s sociology department is also the editor-in-chief of the journal Social Science Research. He told me via email that press-release studies are “frowned upon in academic circles.”
UF student with knife chases man at pool party, police say
Gainesville Sun
A 21-year-old University of Florida student was arrested and charged with aggravated assault after she grabbed a knife and chased a man who tried to throw her in the pool at a pool party at Gainesville Place Apartments on Saturday afternoon, according to a police report. The man was arrested also and charged with battery. Shamorah Hamilton, 21, and Courtney Anthony Barnes, 28, were both attending a pool party at the apartment complex at 2800 SW 35th St. around 4 p.m. on Saturday but did not know each other personally, said Gainesville Police Department spokesman Officer Ben Tobias…
Common Lone Star Tick implicated in Lyme Disease bacteria found in southerners
The Global Dispatch
For the first time ever, University of North Florida’s Dr. Kerry Clark and colleagues reported finding two species of Lyme disease bacteria previously unknown to infect humans, Borrelia americana and Borrelia andersonii…
Movers & Shakers
MiamiHerald.com (blog)
University of North Florida student body president to represent peers. Carlo Fassi, student body president at the University of North Florida, was elected the chair of the Florida Student Association…
UNF economist: ‘Beginning of better news’
Jacksonville Daily Record
University of North Florida economist Paul Mason admits he leans toward pessimism, so it is noteworthy that he has a brighter outlook these days on conditions in Northeast Florida…
USF Health’s Klasko up for Nebraska chancellorship
Northwest News and Tribune
Stephen Klasko, who created the USF Health brand as dean of the University of South Florida’s medical school, is a finalist for a similar position at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha…
Solving a 3.5 billion-year-old mystery: Team determines life-producing …
Phys.Org
Scientists may not know for certain whether life exists in outer space, but new research from a team of scientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist now shows that one key element that produced life on Earth was carried here on meteorites. In an article published in the new edition of the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, USF Assistant Professor of Geology Matthew Pasek and researchers from the University of Washington and the Edinburg Centre for Carbon Innovation, revealed new findings that explain how the reactive phosphorus that was an essential component for creating the earliest life forms came to Earth…
Releases and Web Stories
New College, Daughters for Life Foundation Sign Global Scholarship …
EON: Enhanced Online News
SARASOTA, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–New College of Florida has formed a partnership with the Daughters for Life Foundation, headed by bestselling author and peace activist Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, to provide full college scholarships to disadvantaged women from the Middle East. Under terms of an agreement signed May 28 in Toronto and at a June 4 ceremony in Sarasota, the College, the Foundation and community partners agreed to a three-year pilot program that will bring up to 10 women a year to New College and provide them with full scholarships covering the cost of tuition, room and board and other expenses…
Networking trips help students land jobs
Seminole State College
The Seminole State College of Florida student wants to become an accountant, and his goal is to somehow combine that career with professional sports.
Seminole State in Social Madness competition
Seminole State College
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Tiny airplanes and subs from University of Florida laboratory could be next …
University of Florida
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Kamran Mohseni envisions a day when the unmanned vehicles in his laboratory at the University of Florida will swarm over, under and through hurricanes to help predict the strength and path of the storms.
