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. […]
Continue Reading
Category: Campus & Community
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 […]
Continue ReadingYOU 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 […]
Continue ReadingAmerican 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. […]
Continue ReadingComedy 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 […]
Continue ReadingMatthew 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 […]
Continue ReadingIn 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 […]
Continue ReadingNews 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, […]
Continue ReadingPeter 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 […]
Continue ReadingThe 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 […]
Continue ReadingSeven 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, […]
Continue ReadingWhat 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 […]
Continue ReadingIn 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: […]
Continue ReadingStetson 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 […]
Continue ReadingStetson University’s Opera Theatre will perform Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria by Claudio Monteverdi, on Friday, Oct. 18, at 7:30 p.m., in Lee Chapel, inside Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., on Stetson’s DeLand campus. (Caroline Brazelton is pictured in Stetson University’s Opera Theatre’s recent production of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.) Based on Homer’s […]
Continue ReadingOctober marks the launch of a new phase of university-wide strategic planning, as open discussions, focus groups and an online survey will involve the entire community in crafting a vision for Stetson’s future. The process will culminate in a new 2014-19 Strategic Map that is vetted by all constituencies and reviewed and approved by the […]
Continue ReadingStetson made news this week for access to and affordability of higher education, video game violence, Common Core state standards, and bar exam pass rates. Notable national and local placements include Forbes, Huffington Post, Daytona Beach News-Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Yahoo! News, The Ledger and SCOTUSblog. Top stories for Sept. 27-Oct. 3 include: Top Stories […]
Continue ReadingIn Stetson University’s Psychology Department, a legacy of three generations has been developing since the 1970s, when Dwaine Cochran, Ph.D., taught Richard Medlin in his psychology class. Cochran, proud and pensive, with research interests that include personal space, health attitudes, gerontology, optimism and anthropomorphism, expounds about his colleague: “Medlin was a great student, and one […]
Continue ReadingBeyond Access and Affordability: An Education of High Value You can also read this blog written by President Libby on Huffington Post, posted 10/2/13. With such weighty words as access and affordability lingering in the air after President Obama’s bus tour last month, it’s easy to get caught up in the higher education mantra and […]
Continue Reading“Distracted Driving” is receiving a lot of attention these days, particularly the alarming statistics of death and injury caused by drivers who are talking or texting on cell phones. Forty states have already banned cell phone use while driving and, starting today, Oct. 1, Florida will do the same. According to National Highway Traffic Safety […]
Continue Reading