Category: Campus & Community

Homecoming welcomes back Veterans!

This year, Homecoming is scheduled during the same weekend as several Veterans’ Day celebrations, so several events are being planned to honor those Veterans’ in attendance, including a large turnout by our very own ROTC alumni. (In a photo where the old meets the new, recent Stetson graduate Walker Hobson ’11, receives his commission. Black […]

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Berner Golf Classic boasts fresh student vigor

Student energy injects fresh vigor into the annual Wes Berner Homecoming Golf Classic, using it as a learning experience for sport business students; its revenue will benefit all Stetson athletic programs. A double eagle dose of youthful vigor and fresh ideas is being pumped into a tired homecoming golf tournament this fall to put it […]

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Anti-bullying, family business top news

Stetson University made news this week for anti-bullying programs, family business trends, and effects of the government shutdown on universities. Notable national and local news coverage included: Time, Associated Press, CBS, Yahoo! News, Daytona Beach News-Journal, and Financial Times. Top stories for Oct. 11-17, 2013 include: Associate professor and chair of psychology Chris Ferguson featured […]

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Activist, naturalist, author visits Stetson

As part of the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows program at Stetson University, American writer, poet, naturalist and activist Janisse Ray will speak at Stetson about the international campaign, Food Day, and will read from her book, Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food. Open to the public, free of charge, Ray’s lecture is at 7 p.m., […]

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Continued changes to Dining Services

We are thankful for the continued support from students, faculty, staff and administration as Chartwell’s continues to get settled here at Stetson University. You’ve already noticed many of the biggest differences to Stetson Dining Services, but you probably don’t know why. Earlier this year, Stetson’s contract with Sodexo came under review. Typically, auxiliary service contracts […]

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Students Stand Up; Stand Down a Success

“I can’t imagine what it would be like to live in the woods; to wake up each day and wonder when or what my next meal will be, or where I am going to sleep that night,” said Phillip Yang ‘16 of his experience at this year’s Volusia County Stand Down for Homeless Veterans. On […]

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What are you doing this week??

It’s Financial Aid Awareness Week at Stetson  Be sure to stop in at the One Stop in Griffith Hall and meet your financial aid staff. They have scheduled the following events for you for the week, Oct. 15-17: Tuesday, Oct. 15: Fun-ancial Aid! Prizes, candy and financial aid literacy on the CUB steps from 11 a.m. […]

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World-renowned composer at SU Friday

The Stetson University School of Music Composition Program will welcome world-renowned composer and teacher Martin Bresnick as a guest lecturer at the Composition Forum on Friday, Oct. 18, at 2:30 p.m., in Presser Hall, room 132. Presser Hall is located at 419 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand. Admission is free and open to the public. Bresnick’s […]

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‘Good Day, Orlando’ live Friday at Stetson

YOU are invited to be part of the show! Fox-35 News will broadcast its popular morning news show, “Good Day, Orlando!” live from Stetson University’s DeLand campus on Friday, Oct. 18, from 6-10 a.m. The Stetson community is invited to share in the excitement and enjoy new moments of fame in front of the Carlton […]

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Investigative journalist comes to StetsonU

American investigative journalist Sonia Shah will deliver a public lecture at Stetson University at 7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 24, in the Stetson Room, on the second floor of the Carlton Union Building, 131 E. Minnesota Ave., DeLand. There will be a book signing and reception following the lecture. The public is invited, free of charge. […]

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Hatter Homecoming 2013 Nov. 3-9

Comedy Central’s Nick Kroll headlines Homecoming. Stetson University’s Homecoming 2013 will feature stand-up comedian Nick Kroll, Friday, Nov. 8, 8 p.m., in the Edmunds Center, 143 E. Pennsylvania Ave. This show is open to the public. Kroll stars as ‘Ruxin’ on FX’s critically acclaimed series, THE LEAGUE. His Comedy Central Series, KROLL SHOW, which he created and […]

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Student Development, Campus Vibrancy head named

Matthew Kurz has joined Stetson University’s Division of Campus Life and Student Success as the new director of Student Development and Campus Vibrancy. Reporting to the dean of students, Kurz will provide strategic leadership and direct supervision for Fraternity and Sorority Involvement, First Year and Transition Programs, Leadership Development, Student Organizations, and will advise the Student Government Association with particular […]

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No Link Between Video Games, Violence

In an effort to change the cultural dialogue about violence in media causing aggression in teenagers, an international group of 228 media scholars, psychologists and criminologists recently sent an open letter to the American Psychological Association (APA) asking it to reconsider its position on the effects of violence in the media. “We sent the letter […]

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FBI tactics, human rights lead the news

News articles about the FBI using a death-row inmate to search for remains, the government shutdown, consequences of human rights violations in video games and an environmentally friendly battery all included a Stetson connection. Notable national and local news coverage included: U.S. News & World Report, NBC, FOX, Time, Orlando Sentinel, Washington Post, The Nation, […]

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Social Justice Advocate to speak at Stetson

Peter Edelman, director of the Center on Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy as well as a law professor at Georgetown University, will be the inaugural speaker for Stetson University’s new Social Justice Lecture Series, on Wednesday, Oct. 16. His lecture, “So Rich, So Poor: Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty in America,” will take […]

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Programs available to help students network

The Office of Career Development and Academic Advising’s (CDAA) new engaged programming initiative kicked off recently with an employer panel discussion in John Tichenor’s BADM 100 class. Professionals from business and industry discussed career goals and gave advice to students about how to choose a major and potential career path. Professionals in attendance included Steve […]

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7 Hatters All-America Scholar-Athletes

Seven Stetson University softball student-athletes have been named 2012-13 All-America Scholar-Athletes by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association, it was announced earlier this week. The Hatter honorees were Mallory Brooks (Tampa, Fla.), Jordan Cleghorn, pictured, (Ball Ground, Ga.), Jessica Griffin (Port Saint John, Fla.), Brittany Hawn (Kaneohe, Hawaii), Chrissy Morello (Ormond Beach, Fla.), Chelsea Whalley (Calgary, […]

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The Predicament of Pervasive Poverty

What Peter Edelman saw was unimaginable to him: thousands of malnourished little children; bloated bellies and oozing sores that would not heal; migrant farmers living in abandoned buses. The very basic human needs severely ignored.  Thousands of lives so displaced, so hurt and extremely underserved. The shocker? This was not in some war-torn nation across […]

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Letter to APA on policy statement on violent media

In an effort to change the cultural dialogue about violence in media causing aggression in teenagers, an international group of 228 media scholars, psychologists and criminologists recently sent this open letter to the American Psychological Association (APA) asking it to reconsider its position on the effects of violence in the media. Dear APA Science Directorate: […]

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Stetson rolls out Tobacco/Smoke-Free plan

Stetson University joins a growing list of U.S. colleges and universities to enact a policy to prohibit smoking and tobacco-related products beginning Aug. 1, 2014. The policy will affect Stetson’s residential campuses in DeLand and at the College of Law in Gulfport. The policy prohibits all forms of tobacco use including e-cigarettes and a variety […]

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