Florida Lawmakers Put a Conservative Stamp on Higher Ed
The state’s legislature approved a measure to require new accreditors and allow the Board of Governors to call for post-tenure review.
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The state’s legislature approved a measure to require new accreditors and allow the Board of Governors to call for post-tenure review.
A draft document proposes five-year performance evaluations for professors, and the political climate has some of them on edge.
Florida Board Of Governors Plan For The Post-Pandemic World At State Universities By Keishla Espinal February 25, 2021 Dr. Ralph Wilcox (Courtesy of University of South Florida) The leaders of the State University System of Florida want to be better prepared if another pandemic hits. They met to discuss strategies for doing so on Wednesday in a conference call that University of South Florida Provost Dr. Ralph C. Wilcox led. He is the chair of the Florida Board of Governors’ Steering Committee, which discussed with the full board the plans to form a post-pandemic committee. The overall goa...
Florida International University Search January 27, 2021 at 9:00am FIU has joined the University of Central Florida and the University of South Florida in launching a “Year of Reflection,” a collaboration devoted to social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion programming as well as research for faculty, staff, and students. The three universities form the Florida Consortium of Metropolitan Research Universities. Since 2014, the collaborative partnership has pooled the universities’ experts and resources with a focus on student success. The Year of Reflection initiativeÂ...