Fariha Tasnim Amir | Staff Writer In response to Florida’s recent decision to walk back on providing in-state tuition to undocumented students, prominent Miami businessman Miguel Fernandez pulled back his initial pledge of a hefty 1 million dollar donation to FIU. Amid the Trump administration’s ongoing crackdown on immigration policies, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ new […]
Joshua Ceballos/Investigative Editor The candidate list for the Student Government Council at the Biscayne Bay Campus continues to shrink as candidates drop out with online elections approaching. As PantherNOW reported last month, no one is running for president of SGC-BBC for the upcoming year, and the council only had four candidates running for senate positions […]
Teresa Schuster / Staff Writer For the first time, Student Government Association elections will be held fully online, a decision some candidates believe is unwise. The SGA’s elections code provides for an online voting component, but stipulates that “all necessary arrangements” must be made for physical voting at certain locations at each campus. After deliberation, […]
Dalton Tevlin and Joshua Ceballos/PantherNOW Staff The FIU Board of Trustees held a special meeting Wednesday to provide updates on the various challenges the University has dealt with amid the coronavirus pandemic, and some of the costs they will have to face. The biggest update of the afternoon came from University Chief Financial Officer Kenneth […]
Joshua Ceballos/Investigative Editor After weeks of students waiting to hear about refunds, the University is releasing a plan this week to reimburse housing students displaced by the campus shutdown. Housing asked all resident students besides those with extreme circumstances to check out of their rooms and leave campus by Sunday, March 22. That left some […]
Joshua Ceballos/Investigative Editor A few weeks ago, FIU told housing students to leave campus. Then they asked them to come back. Then leave again. FIU Housing told students on Wednesday, March 11 to move out if they could and leave their personal belongings. A week later on March 17 they were told via email to […]
Joshua Ceballos/Investigative Editor University President Mark B. Rosenberg and Senior Vice President Elizabeth Bejar released a video this evening addressing student questions and concerns amidst the coronavirus. Here are some highlights: Pass/Fail Several thousand students signed a petition this week to make the spring semester pass/fail, meaning students who currently have a passing grade would […]
Tamica Jean-Charles/Assistant Entertainment Director Instead of finalizing ideas for their senior projects, journalism students in New York City and Washington D.C. are expected to return to Miami. The four students stationed in the South Florida Media Network bureau in NYC were ordered to self quarantine after a worker in another section of the building where […]
Teresa Schuster/ Staff Writer FIU is now asking employees to work remotely, and students living on-campus to leave by Monday at noon. Libraries, recreation centers, and restaurants on campus will close or adjust their hours as well. According to an email sent out yesterday, all non-essential employees will leave campus until at least April 4th. […]
Joshua Ceballos & Tamica Jean-Charles/PantherNOW Staff While many students are packing their bags and heading home in the midst of in-person classes being cancelled due to Coronavirus, some housing students are staying behind. The University is planning to keep facilities open and functional for these students for the foreseeable future. Andrew Naylor, senior director of […]
Joshua Ceballos & Teresa Schuster/PantherNOW Staff Tensions flared as the two student government councils met for University-Wide Congress last week. While there were moments of unity, old issues of funding and partisanship bubbled up to the surface, bringing up the question of an SGA merger once again. After an hour-long senate meeting by the Student […]
Neeraj Venkatesh K.R./Contributing Writer Plastic straws are one of the most common items in the world and every day. In the United States alone, we use enough of them to circle the equator twice. Plastic straws have caused considerable concern since they are proven to be very harmful to marine life and even humans according […]
