Alexander Luzula | Assistant News Director In compliance with recent state legislation, FIU has eliminated its Department of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as well as its Office of Social Justice and Inclusion. This decision comes after the State University System’s Board of Governors’ recent decision to ban the use of state and federal funds on […]
Alexander Luzula | Assistant News Director FIU’s international partnership with several Chinese universities has been terminated, following revisions to state university funding policies. This decision brings to an end several relationships and dual enrollment programs held between FIU and various Chinese universities, most notably the Marriott Tianjin China Program. First established by former president Mark […]
PantherNOW Editorial Board During the last faculty senate meeting of the fall on Nov. 14, senate chair Noel Barengo informed senators that the senate would again not endorse the Board of Governor’s State University System Free Expression Statement. Our editorial board fully stands behind this move. It may seem counterintuitive for a student newspaper committed […]
PantherNOW Editorial Board The Florida Board of Governors’ post-tenure review disappointed us when it was approved earlier this year. We had hoped that our trustees would be open to faculty concerns and explicitly supportive of protecting tenure and academic freedom. Yet, time and time again, we’ve seen little to no help from our trustees – […]
Samuel Larreal | Contributing Writer Florida International University will now require tenured professors to undergo a performance review process every five years following new state regulations. Post-Tenure Faculty Review, as this new regulation is called, is a threat to academic freedom, Faculty Senate leadership says. “Intended or not,” Faculty Senate Chair Noël Barengo said, “the […]
Alexander Luzula | Assistant News Director Back in April, FIU banned several social media apps from the university’s network and devices. The ban followed a statewide emergency amendment issued by the Florida Board of Governors, citing the potential national security threat these apps pose. While coverage of the amendment has focused on the bill’s banning […]
By Alexander Luzula | Staff Writer FIU has announced that it will be prohibiting access to the Chinese social media app TikTok, as well as other apps on campus networks, effective immediately. The action follows a recent emergency amendment to regulation 3.0075 by the Florida Board of Governors, governing body of Florida’s 12 public universities. […]
Gerard Albert III/Editor in Chief Updated March 11, 9:50 p.m. The State University System ordered all 12 Florida public universities, including FIU to make plans to transition to remote instruction as soon as possible, effective immediately. In a press release Wednesday the SUS told universities with students currently on campus they should “implement a process […]
By Gerard Albert/ Editor-in-Chief For the third year in a row, Florida is ranked first in the nation for higher education according to a report released on Tuesday. The U.S. News and World Report based rankings off metrics – including the shares of citizens in each state holding a college degree, as well as the […]
By: Patricia Menendez/Staff Writer Florida’s state universities have been climbing up in national rankings, and to celebrate, the Florida Board of Governors is launching the “Our Success Is Your Success” campaign. “’Our Success Is Your Success’ is an initiative intended to thank students, elected leaders, business partners and researchers for their dedicated hard work and […]
By: Joshua Ceballos/News Director The University’s Board of Trustees will not change the name of the Modesto Maidique Campus — at least not yet. The BoT has been discussing the possibility of removing former President Modesto Maidique’s name from the University’s main campus since 2016, when Maidique and emeritus professor in history Bryan Peterson […]
By: Nicole Stone/Assistant News Director The University has been ranked as second in Florida’s ranking system for universities. The Florida Board of Governors met from Tuesday, June 26 to Thursday, June 28, and released this year’s rankings, with FIU only behind the University of Florida. The Board also approved the reappointment of President Mark B. […]
