Miami-Dade county

The Parent Club: a safe space and learning hub for Miami-Dade parents

Isabel Rivera | Contributing Writer “Instructions not included” is the motto most parents gravitate towards when asked what it’s like to raise a child. With 21st-century problems such as screen-time ratios and the online learning years of the pandemic, this rings even truer. Though a proven parenting formula has yet to exist, there’s an FIU […]

FIU hosts community discussion on modern-day slavery and human trafficking

Paloma Pimentel | Contributing Writer In commemoration of National Human Trafficking prevention month, the Office of Social Justice and Inclusion at FIU collaborated with the Women’s Center to host a panel discussing modern slavery and human trafficking. The Jan. 24 discussion was led by Jessica Barriel, a law enforcement detective with the Miami Dade Police […]

FIU Honors the Fallen at Surfside Memorial

Maya Washburn / Asst. News Director Four months after the Surfside condominium collapse, FIU commemorated the lives lost by the tragedy with a memorial at the Graham Center (GC) Ballrooms. “We understand that life is short,” said FIU President Mark Rosenberg on Thursday, Oct. 14, at the event. “We have to somehow find it in […]

Sketch released of BBC attacker

By: Joshua Ceballos/News Director   FIU Police have released a computerized sketch of the suspect who attacked two Mast@FIU high school students at the Biscayne Bay campus. Isabela Victoria Perdomo and James Sadler Critz were collecting materials for a project at BBC near the bay on Monday, Sept. 10, when they were assaulted, police said. […]

University brings Wi-Fi access to Liberty Square

FIU alumna Kelsey Lewis said she was never able to use the internet for school work when she lived in Liberty Square, an underprivileged neighborhood in Liberty City.

MAST@FIU receives national award in STEM

On Jan. 23, MAST @ FIU received the 2015 STEM Excellence Award at the 35th Annual Florida Education Technology Conference in Orlando, Florida. It was the only Florida school to be recognized.

Professor finds link to better grades

A University professor focused on a study intended to show proof of a correlation between penmanship and grades.

University plans for expansion make the ballot

On Wednesday, Sept. 3, the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners voted in favor of putting the University expansion plan in a countywide referendum during the general election on Nov. 4.

FIU expansion made the November ballot

After years of planning, the University will take their hopes for expansion into the hands of Miami-Dade County voters.

FIU rallies support for commission meeting

Vice President for Student Affairs, Larry Lunsford, invites students to the Miami Dade Board of County Commissioners meeting that will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 3. Discussions will take place on whether or not to allow county voters to decide on fairgrounds.

County sets deadline for Youth Fair relocation site

Members of the University community traveled together in a shuttle to show support the acquisition of the fairgrounds at the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners meeting.

Editorial: “Play fair: that’s not how you get things done”

  Fueled by the University’s “inability to meet the demands of the diverse student body’s academic interests and research needs,” words taken from a Student Government Council bill passed last year, FIU has had its eyes set on the Miami-Dade County Fairgrounds space for almost four years now. To sum it up: on one side, […]

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