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Education
Tech Solutions
Florida International University plans to create a high-tech laboratory that uses technology to solve social problems with a $2.3-million grant it won from the National Science Foundation’s Partnership for International Research and Education progra
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Published on 12/1/2007
Education: Costly Toll
Only 60% of Florida students graduate high school on time.
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Published on 12/1/2007
A Soda Crack-Down at School
A state lawmaker wants to ban beverages with high-fructose corn syrup from public schools.
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Published on 12/1/2007
Contracts of Florida Football Coaches
Head coaches not only work year-round recruiting players but also are celebrities that make money from TV rights. They also make more than their bosses who are university presidents.
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Published on 11/1/2007
Multimedia: Florida Atlantic Football, the Next USF?
Florida Atlantic President Frank Brogan talks about the future of his school’s upstart football program and how success on the field can lead to better academics. But FAU must be careful, he warns.
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Published on 11/1/2007
College Football Blitz
With six schools now fielding Division 1 Bowl Subdivision teams, Florida has become a major battleground in the college football arms race. But does it pay to play?
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Published on 11/1/2007
Stats: Cash Flow in College Football
The numbers behind Florida's public college football teams.
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Published on 11/1/2007
Biometric Time Clock
BioTraits, a biometric technology company based at UCF’s Technology Incubator, has developed an I-Guard Finger Scanner system that prevents employees from punching the time clock for their friends.
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Published on 11/1/2007
Fewer Kids in Schools
In February 2003, the Broward County Planning Services Division issued a report predicting that “significant growth of the school-aged population will continue through 2010.”
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Published on 11/1/2007
Icon: Gus Stavros
Businessman, philanthropist, Florida Board of Governors member, 82
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Published on 11/1/2007
Tour: Wright's Work at Florida Southern College
Lakeland's Florida Southern College maintains the largest collection of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in the world. Tour the campus.
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Published on 10/1/2007
Workforce Readiness
Florida's educational system is committed to growing a prepared workforce at every level.
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Published on 10/1/2007
Wright's Stuff
Anne Kerr is trying to restore the biggest collection of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in the world -- keeping them as working parts of a college and not museum pieces.
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Published on 10/1/2007
On Display in China
Three FSU artists mounted solo displays of black-and-white photography, surrealistic oils and ceramics in China this summer, becoming the first Americans to exhibit at Ningbo Museum of Art, one of China’s largest provincial museums.
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Published on 10/1/2007
Filling a Nursing Need
Florida, and only the sixth in the nation, to offer a master’s degree in family nurse practitioning with a subspecialty in emergency nurse practitioning.
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Published on 10/1/2007
Stats: University Investment Boost
Public and private investment in research at Florida’s major universities totaled more than $1.6 billion in 2006, according to a survey by the technology transfer directors of 13 Florida research...
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Published on 9/1/2007
Stats: Ave Maria - the University
Numbers behind the new Catholic university outside of Naples.
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Published on 9/1/2007
Leap of Faith
Dominoes founder Tom Monaghan expected things to go smoothly when he began moving his Roman Catholic college from Michigan to Southwest Florida. But ...
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Published on 9/1/2007
Ave Maria Town Tour
Residents have moved in. Students have started class. It’s the beginning for Ave Maria, the new Collier County town and Catholic university.
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Published on 9/1/2007
An Opening
Discussion of how to improve Florida’s higher-ed system plays out between two poles.
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Published on 8/1/2007
Overrun
It’s a good thing the Gators are national football champs this year; otherwise,
it might be harder to raise money for
Ben Hill Griffin Stadium renovations now that the price tag has doubled to $28 million. Read more »
it might be harder to raise money for
Ben Hill Griffin Stadium renovations now that the price tag has doubled to $28 million. Read more »
Published on 8/1/2007
Aiming High
14 young Floridians who are already experienced businesspeople.
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Published on 7/1/2007
Med School Startups
UCF’s Dr. Deborah German and FIU’s Dr. John Rock will be only the third and fourth people in the nation to build a med school from scratch in nearly 30 years.
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Published on 7/1/2007
The Weight of Expectation
UCF’s Dr. Deborah German and FIU’s Dr. John Rock will be only the third and fourth people in the nation to build a med school from scratch in nearly 30 years.
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Published on 7/1/2007
