Special Section: Coverage & Reax to Kiplinger’s 100 Best Values in Public Colleges List
New College ranked No. 7 for best value in public colleges
Bradenton Herald
New College of Florida made the top 10 in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance’s list of 100 best values in public colleges, which ranks four-year schools that combine outstanding education with economic value. New College was ranked No. 7, while the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill took top honors, a spot it has held consistently since Kiplinger’s first analysis in 1998…
Report: UCF, 5 other FL universities rated among best values in …
Orlando Sentinel
Six public universities in Florida — including the University of Central Florida — have been rated among the best values in the nation by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, which has released its 2013 ranking of its Top 100 public colleges and universities. The University of Florida, the state’s unofficial flagship school in Gainesville, rated third best value in the country based on such things as tuition charged to in-state residents and the university’s four-year graduation rate. New College of Florida, a small honors college in Sarasota, took the No. 7 spot in the annual ranking. Florida State University in Tallahassee took 26th place. UCF here in Orlando came in at No. 42. This is the third straight year UCF has made the list…
Our Opinion: Great Value
Tallahassee Democrat
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine knows something that thousands of Florida State University students discover every year — FSU is a great value. For the 12th consecutive year, Kiplinger’s has included FSU in its list of the 100 “best values” among public colleges and universities. Florida State ranked 26th as a value for in-state students and 33rd for those from out-of-state. Last year, it ranked 18th for in-state value and 31st out-of-state…
Five of Florida schools have been listed among the nation’s best value universities
WEAR
Five of Florida schools have been listed among the nation’s best value universities. Kiplinger, a D.C. based financial forecaster, ranked schools based on graduation rates, academic support, access to financial aid and tuition. University of Florida ranked highest on the list for Florida at number three. New College in Sarasota made the top 10 at number seven and Florida State University came in at the 26th best value school in the country. University of Central Florida and University of North Florida also made the list…
Magazine names FSU a “Best Value” School
WTXL
Florida State University was again named one of the best values in the nation by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance in the publication’s 2012-2013 ranking of 100 public universities and colleges, taking the No. 26 spot.
State University System
UCF program treats war veterans with PTSD
WFTV
A new program is being used at the University of Central Florida to treat war veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder…
University of Florida report shows residents pessimistic about not dealing …
The Republic
A new University of Florida survey shows a growing pessimism among the state’s residents worried about the potential effects of Congress failing to deal with the fiscal cliff. Confidence that personal finances will be sound at this time next year dropped two points in the monthly survey while confidence in the U.S. economy over the coming year fell six points in the survey of 400 Florida residents by UF researchers…
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Mark your calendar:
Florida Forward: Shake-up in higher education?
Orlando Sentinel
Florida’s public colleges and universities may be in for big changes next year. Join the Orlando Sentinel and the UCF Metro Center for a discussion about what’s ahead featuring new House Speaker Will Weatherford. Other panelists include Tico Perez a Florida Board of Governors member, Tom Auxter United Faculty of Florida President, and Dr. E. Ann McGee President of Seminole State College.
Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Registration & Networking 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch & Panel Discussion
Location: The Ballroom at Church St. 225 South Garland Ave, Orlando, FL 32801
Moderator: Orlando Sentinel’s Mike Lafferty
Online: The event will be livestreamed on www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion
Tickets: $35 for single presale tickets $40 at the door (limited seating available) $325 for a table of 10 seats Click here to buy a ticket
State College System
IN THE 13th GRADE
Florida Courier
…Remedial classes in math, reading and writing are seeing a surge of students at Florida’s 28 community and state colleges – schools where all students are welcome as long as they have a high school diploma or G.E.D. From 2004 to 2011, Florida’s remedial education costs for both students and schools ballooned from $118 million to $168 million. The vast majority of students in these “developmental courses” are in some stage of going back to school after a break. An analysis by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting and StateImpact Florida found that in the 2010-11 school year, 85 percent of students taking remedial classes were age 20 or older…
Independent Colleges and Universities
Edward Waters College sees enrollment growth this fall
Florida Times-Union (subscription)
Edward Waters College saw its fall enrollment jump 20 percent this year, making the total student population 925, college officials …
For Lynn University, 2012 Debate Frenzy ’100-Percent Worth It’
WLRN
Many years from now, hundreds of Lynn University alumni will be able to tell their grandkids, “Yep, I was there.” 2012 was the year Lynn went from relatively unknown university to center of the political universe when it hosted the final presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney…
University of Miami Study Finds Decline in U.S. Cancer Screening Rates
HealthCanal.com
The rate at which people seek preventive cancer screenings has fallen over the last ten years in the United States, with wide variations between white-collar and blue-collar workers, according to a University of Miami Miller School of Medicine study ..
Yip Yap: Noted and Quoted FLHE Voices from Around the State
My View: Predictions for the next decades of education
CNN
When people find out that I am a futurist, they ask me what that means. In speaking and writing, I act as a catalyst to get people, the market and the world to think about the future, then facilitate a conversation about it. There’s one area that’s desperately in need of that conversation: education. In the next decade, there will be more transformation at all levels of education than in any 10-, 20-, or perhaps 50-year period in history. Generational forces at play will accelerate these changes. The aging baby boomers – who I call the “bridge generation,” as they have bridged education from the middle of the 20th century to now – are retiring in ever increasing numbers. They have held on to the legacy thinking about education, remembering how they were taught. Their retirement opens up the discussion about transformation… David Houle is a futurist and author of the blog Evolution Shift. He is the author of “The Shift Age”, “Shift Ed: A Call to Action for Transforming K-12 Education” and “Entering the Shift Age.” He has been a contributor to Oprah.com. Houle is futurist-in- residence at the Ringling College of Art + Design in Sarasota, Florida.
OUR TOP 10 STORIES 2012
Daytona Times
1. B-CU president resigns - Dr. Trudie Kibbe Reed, Bethune-Cookman University’s first woman president since the founder, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, resigns after seven and a half years as the university’s leader. Reed’s resignation this year followed a tumultuous 2011, as indicated in a nine-part investigative series published from June through September in the Florida Courier, the sister newspaper of the Daytona Times. The series detailed how B-CU was slapped with 13 state and federal lawsuits and administrative complaints, including legal actions filed by longtime professors…
Hero finalist: Dudley Goodlette
The News-Press
Dudley Goodlette was key in returning accountability and putting Edison State College back on the path to credibility during his seven months as interim president. Those accomplishments were key in naming him a a finalst for The News-Press Media Group’s Hero of the Year award. His steady hand guided the college through a crippling crisis that shook its very foundation, including the threat of losing accreditation, a report blasting the college with charges of academic fraud, and the fate of a suspended president…
FAMU head coach search: School expects new coach by Jan. 12
SB Nation Tampa Bay (blog)
FAMU has known since Nov. 3 that it needs a new coach, but it still doesn’t have one in place, according to St. Clair Murraine of the Tallahassee Democrat. Athletic Director Derek Horne said he expects to have a new coach in place by Jan. 12, 2013.
Work begins on dorms for Catholic students at secular universities
Georgia Bulletin
Catholic students at one secular university in Florida soon will have a dormitory all their own. In a historic collaboration, Bishop John G. Noonan of Orlando, Fla., Anthony J. Catanese, president of Florida Institute of Technology, Matt Zerrusen, president of the Newman Student Housing Fund, and Salvatorian Father Douglas Bailey, chaplain of Catholic campus ministry at the school, participated in the ceremonial groundbreaking for Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Student Residence Dec. 7. The ceremony was the second in as many months at a secular university in which housing specifically designated for Catholic students is being constructed…
Butch Davis to FIU hits major snag
FoxSports.com
A contract squabble with the University of North Carolina is keeping Butch Davis from becoming the next head coach at Florida International University, a source told FOXSports.com on Thursday night…
Next Level Sports & Fitness
Gainesville Sun
A former University of Florida football player wants to take youth to their next level of fitness training through his business, Next Level Sports & Fitness in Gainesville. Zephrin Augustine, a walk-on special teams player and backup defensive back in the early 2000s at UF, said his obedience to a vision God gave him in 2005 to start Next Level can help residents take off unwanted pounds, especially those gained during the holiday season, and help aspiring athletes reach their physical fitness goals…
New grapefruit hybrid could resolve medication issues
The Packer
Citrus growers could be commercially producing medication-friendly grapefruit within a few years thanks to the work of scientists at the University of Florida’s Citrus Research and Education Center. Fred Gmitter, a professor of citrus breeding and genetics at the Lake Alfred, Fla., center, published data in the December issue of the journal “Xenobiotica” about a new grapefruit variety. It is scheduled for release in January through the New Variety and Development Management Corp.
University of Michigan Health System Suffers Security Breach
eSecurity Planet
“This year has been a rough one for hospital data security,” notes TechNewsDaily’s Ben Weitzenkorn. “In April the records of 315,000 former patients of Emory University Hospital in Atlanta were put at risk when 10 discs went missingfrom a storage facility. The next month, a Boston Children’s Hospital employee lost a laptop containing almost 2,200 patient records. In June patients at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York were informed that patient data inadvertently had been embedded in a PowerPoint presentation, publicly available on the Internet. And in September investigators discovered that University of Miami hospital staffers may have sold patient data.”
Releases and Web Stories
SPCA Florida Announces New Hours and Expands Program Services
PR Newswire
…As the New Year rings in, SPCA Florida is also rolling out new community services. Partnering with Florida Southern College (FSC), SPCA Florida is helping community cats by creating the first Cat Cafe program. Approximately 100 community cats currently living across the FSC campus will be humanely trapped, examined, spayed or neutered, vaccinated, and permanently identified by SPCA Florida veterinarians. The cats will be released back into their environment and cared for by the Alpha Chi Omega Sorority at specially designed Cat Cafes, which are custom-designed houses and feeding stations built in Frank Lloyd Wright style to keep with the historical aesthetics of the campus…
