Stetson sand volleyball’s No. 2 pairing of senior Maren Rygh (Tonsberg, Norway) and sophomore Kristin Lind (Tierp, Sweden) have been named the Atlantic Sun Conference Pair of the Week, the league announced today. Rygh and Lind went a perfect 3-0 last week and helped lead Stetson to a pair of wins over Florida Atlantic and […]
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It’s time once again for Stetson faculty, staff and students to nominate the graduating senior you feel is the most deserving of the Stetson University senior awards. Your nominations will be tallied to ultimately determine who will be honored at this year’s commencement ceremonies. Nominations for two awards and three commencement speakers should be submitted via the […]
Continue ReadingStudents and their scholarship donors recently spent time together at the 10th Annual Benefactor Luncheon to celebrate the power of philanthropy in their lives. Stetson hosts this event each spring to connect students who receive donor-funded scholarships with the benefactors who made their scholarships possible. The luncheon is a great way to engage alumni and […]
Continue Readingby Trish Wieland There are people who help others not by just doing for them, but listening to them, researching root problems and helping them create better, stronger communities despite societal obstacles. It’s a growing trend on college campuses known as civic engagement and community-based research and learning. It usually starts with a professor and, […]
Continue ReadingThe following Stetson University stories were featured this week in the news, Feb. 27-March 5, 2015: Orlando Sentinel discussed Stetson University in the article, Does SunRail Make Sense For Deland, on Feb. 27. Peter Lake, professor of law, is quoted in the March 4 Chicago Tribune article, More students heading to college with mental illness: How to […]
Continue ReadingEveryone knows that the long-sought diploma is the most important document on graduation day. But what about the next day? And next month? And years and decades throughout a career? One word: resume. Long after the treasured diploma is hanging on a wall, that resume will be doing heavy lifting on the career end of […]
Continue ReadingAll season long, the Stetson women’s basketball team has been focused on improving every day, working together on a consistent basis, and ultimately playing its best basketball come postseason play. Well, the Atlantic Sun Conference Championship has arrived, and the No. 2 seeded Hatters (22-6) enter the tournament on a season-high six-game winning streak. But […]
Continue Readingby Jason Evans, Ph.D. While at New Smyrna Beach over a recent holiday, I watched my wife and son play in the sand and surf. Of course, the husband and father could enjoy this happy moment, but the scientist in me feared what the future holds for our vanishing coastline. As a Central Florida […]
Continue Readingby Bill Noblitt Flabbergasted, I almost drop my pen and paper when Stetson University’s Faculty Learning Community Day speaker, James H. Johnson Jr., Ph.D., talks about the end of men. What? I’m sitting right here. Can’t he see me? Have I become invisible? Well, men are not so much invisible as missing in action. Johnson, […]
Continue Readingby Michael Candelaria The numbers on the chalkboard aren’t difficult to calculate. National studies reveal that 40-50 percent of new teachers in kindergarten through 12th grade classrooms leave the profession within the first five years of teaching, and about 13 percent of the nation’s 3.4 million K-12 teachers shift schools or leave the profession each […]
Continue Readingby Andy Butcher Surrounded by sea, speckled with lakes and springs like a Jackson Pollock painting, and boasting one of the highest annual rainfalls in the country, Florida would not seem to lack water. But that is the critical case when it comes to the fresh, usable kind. “It’s not a crisis yet, but everyone […]
Continue Readingby Mary M. McCambridge No one ever expects to see his or her child fighting a battle with cancer at the tender age of nine. But that’s exactly what Len and Elizabeth Forkas of Virginia faced when their son, Matt, was suddenly diagnosed with leukemia shortly after struggling to breathe while playing basketball. Faced with this […]
Continue ReadingGiving Tuesday takes place the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving and is the day designated, worldwide, for giving back. It’s a significant time for making an impact, especially because Giving Tuesday (#GivingTuesday) is only celebrating its third birthday this year. The phenomenon of giving – especially online – has skyrocketed in recent years, and donors are […]
Continue ReadingAlso approved: campus plans, new graduate programs Stetson University’s Board of Trustees, pictured, approved a change in the university’s investment policy in alignment with the University’s recent decision to become a tobacco and smoke free campus. The University will no longer directly invest in tobacco company securities. “This decision is an outgrowth of Stetson’s commitment […]
Continue Readingby Bill Noblitt National experts say that higher education in general must become innovative or die, and they believe that universities like Stetson are no exception. “To play its indispensable function in the new competitive environment, the typical university must change more quickly and more fundamentally than it has been doing,” write Clayton M. Christensen […]
Continue Readingby Shannon Tan Voters will decide Nov. 4 whether Florida becomes the 24 state — and the first in the South — to adopt a comprehensive program allowing medical marijuana to be purchased for a variety of medical conditions. Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have already legalized some form of the drug – […]
Continue ReadingTwo genes linked to violence and a forum on Florida’s Water and Land Legacy, also known as Amendment 1, led the news for Stetson University this week. Notable national and regional placements include BBC News, ABC News (Australia), Huffington Post, Fox News, The Christian Science Monitor, The Nation and Tumblr.com. Top stories for Oct. 24-30, […]
Continue Reading(UPDATE Nov. 2014: deGrom has been named NL Rookie of the Year. Kluber won the AL Cy Young Award.) by Jack Roth Since baseball started at Stetson University in 1895, 10 Hatters have made it to “the show” – Major League Baseball. Impressively, three have made it since 2009, and — even more impressive – […]
Continue ReadingBuzz about Stetson alumnus Jacob deGrom as a contender for the National League Rookie of the Year, and high-profile cases that spotlight university responses to issues top the news for Stetson this week. Notable national and regional placements include USA Today, Sporting News, preLaw, KPBS, Orlando Sentinel, Bay News 9, Herald Tribune and Orlando Business […]
Continue Readingby Andy Butcher As the volume of snippy punditry and snap polling rises with the approach of the Nov. 4 elections, one online political commentator has confidently asserted: “voters are rational in midterm elections.” He must know something that pretty much everyone else doesn’t — from candidates and campaigners to analysts and academics. For all […]
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