The 20th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Breakfast, with keynote speaker Stan Whitted, retired area superintendent for Volusia County Schools, music teacher/director and community activist, will be held Monday, Jan. 16. The public is invited to join the celebration honoring King and his dream, beginning at 7:45 a.m. at Stetson University’s Rinker Field House […]
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Christopher Pietruszkiewicz has been named the new dean of Stetson University College of Law in Tampa Bay, Fla. Pietruszkiewicz joins Stetson from the LSU Law Center at Louisiana State University, where he serves as vice chancellor for business and financial affairs and as the J.Y. Sanders Professor of Law. Pietruszkiewicz will start at Stetson this […]
At the recent Stetson University 1883 Society dinner, the 200 donors in attendance gathered after dinner in historic Elizabeth Hall for the unveiling of a sculpture titled “Shalom,” mounted near the entrance to Lee Chapel. “Shalom” is the latest wood sculpture that Stetson Trustee Emeritus Mark C. Hollis, a 1956 Stetson alumnus and resident of […]
A group of Stetson University students have successfully completed their Teacher Education internships in central Florida schools. Stetson’s Teacher Education internship program is designed to prepare students to work with diverse populations by allowing them to experience teaching first-hand with mentor teachers. The majority of the students do their senior internships in Volusia, Seminole, Orange […]
Dr. Eric Kurlander, associate professor and chair of the History Department at Stetson University, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant for research and teaching in Freiburg, Germany, during the spring semester 2012, the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board has announced. From January through April, Kurlander will conduct […]
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges has reaffirmed the accreditation of Stetson University for another 10 years. The reaccreditation was announced by SACS last week following a two-year, in-depth review of the university and visit by a SACS team in April. “We are very proud of our successful reaccreditation by SACS,” […]
Rina Tovar, Stetson University vice president for Campus Life and Student Success, is the first recipient ever to receive the NASPA-Florida Outstanding Service to Students Award. The National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) designed this award as a way to recognize the contributions of professionals who consistently give time and effort counseling, advising and […]
Stetson University partnered with Feeding Children Everywhere this month to raise money and pack more than 5,000 meals for hungry children in Guatemala City, Guatemala. About 75 students, alumni, faculty and staff and their family members from the business, education and counseling programs at Stetson’s Center at Celebration in Osceola County worked together in groups […]
As it gears up for the return of Hatter Football and the introduction of Women’s Lacrosse in 2013, Stetson University will begin construction this week on a $6.7 million athletics complex to include a Field House and four playing fields. Stetson’s Athletics Enhancement Initiative will provide a new and improved game-day field to be shared […]
Dr. Timothy Peter, professor of music at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, will become Stetson University’s new director of choral activities and professor of music, effective August 2012. “Dr. Peter brings dynamic leadership, artistry and magnetism to our vibrant School of Music, whose choral tradition and strengths are highly regarded nationwide,” said Dr. Jean O. West, […]
Dozens of Stetson University students, employees, alumni and top administrators did a double-take this week while watching a 60 Minutes television special about central Florida families who have fallen on hard times and are living in their cars. One of the main subjects of the story – 15-year-old Arielle Metzger – was wearing a green […]
A new era of student-based charitable giving at Stetson University has begun with an invasion by Phil the Pig – as in “Philanthropy” or “fill” the pig! Hundreds of Phil the Pig piggy banks have been distributed this fall by Stetson and its Student Philanthropy Council to students, faculty, staff, and the Alumni Board. And […]
Fifteen Stetson students received awards at the opening reception for Stetson University’s 22nd Juried Student Art Exhibition on Nov. 11. The award winning works of art (59 pieces) are currently being displayed at the Homer and Dolly Hand Art Center now through Dec. 9. The Hand Art Center is located on the University’s Palm Court/Quad, […]
Carol Julian, an experienced fundraiser who previously served at Stephens College in Columbia, Mo., has joined the Stetson University administration as associate vice president for University Relations and campaign director. Julian oversees Stetson’s DeLand campus fundraising and alumni relations efforts, including annual giving, gift planning, corporate and foundation relations, stewardship, and records and reporting. She […]
Stetson University’s Housing and Residential Life Department has been honored by the Halifax Humane Society inDaytona Beach for its creation of the university’s pet-friendly student residence hall and its contribution to animals. Stetson received the 2011 Wingate Award by the Halifax Humane Society, the area’s largest animal shelter. The award, named for the founders of […]
The Stetson University School of Music and the Florida Bandmasters Association (FBA) will present the 22nd annual FBA Hall of Fame Weekend at Stetson on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 12 and 13. Honorees to be inducted this year into the Hall of Fame are Kenneth R. Tolbert, director of the Miami Central Band that was […]
The late Lucille Gilstrap West, who earned a Master of Arts degree from Stetson University in 1959, was a calculus teacher with a formula for life that called for careful planning, frugal spending and saving for the people, values and institutions important to her. “She had a vision. She wanted to use her money to […]
Building on the huge success and energy of the first two family business conferences, Family Business Magazine and Stetson University’s Family Enterprise Center are going national and taking the powerful production to San Francisco, Calif., this week. The winning formula of world-class experts sharing honest, useful information with multiple generations of veteran family business leaders, […]
Stetson University has received this year’s Engaged Campus Award for colleges and universities in the independent sector, and Stetson junior Chelsea Lincoln has won the Students in Service Award, from Florida Campus Compact. The awards were presented at Florida Campus Compact’s recent 2011 Awards Gala inOrlando. Florida Campus Compact is a coalition of more than […]
Stetson University will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its Beckerath Organ on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 4 and 5, with a series of guest recitals, receptions and talks to be held on Stetson’s DeLand campus. The recitals will be held in Lee Chapel, inside Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd. An observance of the 50th […]