April 23, 2024
Education
Florida Trend Reporter vs. Lance Armstrong
Audio slideshow: A Trend reporter tests her physical limits at the National Training Center's Human Performance Lab in Clermont. Find out how this 37-year-old desk jockey fared in an endurance test that pushes an individual to the point of exhaustion.
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Published on 7/1/2009
Clermont Is on the Fast Track
Tiny Clermont -- pop. 23,000 -- has made itself the epicenter of the state's sports tourism industry.
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Published on 7/1/2009
Jill White Takes Over at Northwest Fla. State College
The college’s board of trustees fired Richburg after a grand jury indicted him in connection with a $6-million state appropriation for a construction project.
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Published on 7/1/2009
More Enrolled in Northwest Fla. Colleges
Community college enrollment historically rises during economic downturns.
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Published on 6/1/2009
Art Museum Gives UNF Presence Downtown Again
Today, more than 20 years after the university shuttered its urban site, a new partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville is bringing UNF back downtown — in the same historic, six-story Western Union Telegraph Building that once ho
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Published on 6/1/2009
Sea School: Fight Off Pirates
The $550 class allows you to earn a master’s license, which enables you to operate a ship up to 500 gross tons and earn up to $300 to $400 per day at sea.
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Published on 6/1/2009
Southeast Fla. SAT Scores
Martin County students recorded the highest SAT scores and the largest percentage of AP exams graded 3 or higher in the region.
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Published on 6/1/2009
N. Carolina Stands Ready to Hire Away Our Best Professors
The first major goal in a business-higher ed partnership, of course, should be the creation of a stable fiscal base for our state’s universities — reliable, year-to-year funding that creates a solid foundation for real excellence.
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Published on 5/1/2009
Prison Reform: A Course Correction
With prisons full and a tight state budget, Florida business leaders are pushing reform as a matter of efficiency -- and public safety.
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Published on 5/1/2009
Education Foundations' Success Lies in Business Involvement
Education foundations are meant to provide a way for a county’s business community to get involved in its public schools.
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Published on 3/1/2009
UM Touts Research with Commercial Potential
Bart Chernow, recruited to UM as vice provost for technology advancement, founded UM Innovation, an umbrella entity that coordinates the activities of an office of technology transfer.
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Published on 3/1/2009
It's Hot But Don't Blame Global Warming
Some Florida cities are getting hotter, but the evolution has more to do with bulldozers and pavement than global warming.
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Published on 2/1/2009
Wave of Hope for FAU's Ocean Turbines
Florida Atlantic's ocean energy research center envisions creating energy via underwater turbines but is having trouble getting a permit.
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Published on 2/1/2009
Icon: Margaret D. Lowman
Rainforest canopy researcher, professor of biology and environmental studies at New Collage, author, age 55
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Published on 2/1/2009
Wendy Libby Named Stetson President
Incoming President
Wendy Libby, 57
» Top Pick: Selected from 75 applicants during a 1½-year search, Libby will oversee the DeLand campus, Stetson’s
law school in Gulfport near
St. Petersburg...
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Published on 1/1/2009
Lowry Park Zoo Moves On Despite Controversy
The zoo’s $4.5-million, 17,000-sq.-ft. Safari Lodge opened in December amid controversy surrounding Lex Salisbury.
Lex Salisbury, the longtime leader of Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo, gets a lot of the credit...
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Published on 1/1/2009
Schools Doing More with Less
Every education district in Florida has had to face an extra challenge this school year. They each received an average of $310 less per student for 2008-2009 than in the previous year.
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Published on 1/1/2009
Beating Dyslexia in Duval
A third of Duval County 10th-graders cannot read at grade level, according to the latest FCAT scores.
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Published on 12/1/2008
Screenplays by the Book
Using their trademarked, web-based
multimedia program, along with computers and editing equipment, two UCF professors are enticing middle and high school students to read by helping them create Hollywood film-type “trailers” for digital bo Read more »
multimedia program, along with computers and editing equipment, two UCF professors are enticing middle and high school students to read by helping them create Hollywood film-type “trailers” for digital bo Read more »
Published on 12/1/2008
New Degrees Enhance Indian River College
Since January, 1,000 wannabe teachers, nurses and healthcare managers have enrolled in nine new baccalaureate degree programs.
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Published on 12/1/2008
'Petroleomics'
An FSU professor's technology helps oil companies work more efficiently.
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Published on 11/1/2008
Research Funding Fall at UF
University of Florida research funding fell $21.5 million to $561.5 million this year.
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Published on 11/1/2008
The Power of School Choice
The Florida Supreme Court may have removed two amendments relating to the use of vouchers in the public school system from the November ballot, but the issue of introducing more choice into the schools won’t go away, nor should it.
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Published on 10/1/2008
Orange Schools Save a Bundle by Rescheduling Day
Faced with $94 million in state budget cuts and higher operating costs for its bus system, the Orange County School District flipped classroom hours this fall for high schools and middle schools.
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Published on 10/1/2008
