Alyssa Elso/Staff Writer If the upcoming changes to the Bright Futures Scholarship Program were in effect now, 74 percent of FIU students would not qualify for the scholarship. Starting in the fall 2013 semester, Bright Futures will require high school students to score higher on the SAT and ACT exams in order to receive the […]
Josefine Gyllensporre/Staff Writer On Aug. 12, 2013, the Provost’s Office will welcome Kathleen Wilson as its new Faculty Fellow. According to Provost Douglas Wartzok, Wilson’s professional background makes her an excellent candidate for the position. Wilson is a senator at the United Faculty of Florida and associate director of the FIU’s School of Music. She […]
Madison Fantozzi/ Asst. News Director Provost and Executive Vice President Douglas Wartzok announced the new Dean of Libraries in a memorandum to the University on Monday, April 1. Anne Prestamo has experience serving as a reference librarian, head of Digital Library Services and currently as the associate dean for Collection and Technology Services. Wartzok wrote […]
Richard Clapso/Contributing Writer Colleges claim that their students not only graduate, but graduate as leaders. FIU will now support this idea with its new entrepreneurship course starting in fall 2014. The class will be a requirement in the core curriculum for undergraduates. At a town hall meeting in February, University President Mark Rosenberg discussed the […]
Madison Fantozzi/Asst. News Director Faculty are raising concern and criticism over the University’s proposed contract with Academic Partnerships to market a new program that will offer online degrees to students abroad. Faculty are questioning the procedure — or lack thereof — that was undergone to select the company for partnership, which was neither competitive nor […]
