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Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterApril 16, 2016

A top Republican fundraiser is the newest member of the Board of Governors for the State University System. On Friday, Gov. Rick Scott appointed Darlene Jordan to the State University System’s governing board. The 49-year-old Palm Beach woman is the executive director of the Gerald R. Jordan Foundation. A top fundraiser, Jordan served as the […]

Bill RuftyMarch 9, 2016

Now in its second year of operation the state’s newest university, Florida Polytechnic in Lakeland, will receive money in this year’s state budget for its second major academic building and funding for a new program. In the budget, and approved earlier by the Board of Governors, are $5 million for the preliminary preparation and construction […]

Scott PowersFebruary 7, 2016

Orlando’s big vision for downtown, the Creative Village development, hinges on a lot of ifs, and Orlando City Council is going to consider addressing the first big if Monday. Creative Village plans first hatched more than five years ago envision turning 68 acres of what is now mostly vacant moonscape, which once held the now-razed […]

Scott PowersJanuary 21, 2016

Newly elected chairman of the Florida Board of Governors Thomas Kuntz has declared that Florida’s state universities need to elevate their standings as research institutions. In giving his first State of the [University] System address Thursday afternoon, shortly after being elected to succeed Morteza “Mori” Hosseini as chairman, Kuntz acknowledged there has been strong progress in two of the Board […]

Shannon NickinsonSeptember 29, 2015

This should be the University of West Florida time in the sun. Pensacola’s university saw funding restored this year following a marked improvement on the new state-mandated performance metrics. The measurements –10 in all from academic progression rates, to graduation rates to median first-year salaries for graduates — are Florida’s latest salvo in the ever-expanding […]

Bob SparksAugust 20, 2015

Florida A & M University, unfortunately, is again in the news. President Elmira Mangum and the university’s Board of Trustees are in conflict and have been for some time. Public spats between Mangum and Board Chairman Rufus Montgomery have escalated. On Wednesday, four sitting legislators and the mayor of Tallahassee called a news conference to […]

Phil AmmannJuly 8, 2015

One of the Florida Capitol’s most respected insiders, Deborah Gallay, died on Tuesday, July 7. She was 66. Gallay’s extensive public service career included positions in the Executive Office of the Governor, the Department of Education and Board of Regents, which later became the Board of Governors and staff director of Senate Finance & Taxation. Never […]

Daniel TilsonApril 22, 2015

Gov. Scott finally got busy addressing big issues this week. Not serious, mind you, just busy. Lots of finger-pointing, no problem-solving With President Barack Obama visiting South Florida and using the Everglades as backdrop to observe Earth Day, Scott refused the White House’s invitation to participate. Why risk hearing any inflammatory words or phrases. Climate […]

Daniel TilsonApril 6, 2015

Looks like Gov. Rick Scott wants to “keep working” past January 2018. That’s when our next governor gets inaugurated. But that doesn’t mean the term-limited Scott wants to give us a break. Think you’ll need some Scott-free psychic space where you can look back in anger and heal the wounds his administration inflicted on you […]

Marc YachtMarch 30, 2015

The late Johnny Cash sang, “Don’t take your guns to town, son. Leave your guns at home….” I would suspect that the Second Amendment crowd might boycott his music today. Guns on campus are on the Florida legislative fast tract. Florida Senate Bill 176 and House Bill 4005 allow students with concealed weapons permits to […]

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TALLAHASSEE, FLA. 4/18/25-Candles and remembrances are left near the Unconquered statue a few hours after the Florida State University Gathering of Unity Vigil held Friday to honor victims of the recent mass shooting. COLIN HACKLEY PHOTO

Rick Scott appoints Darlene Jordan to Board of Governors

Once-controversial Florida Poly University gets expansion funds

Deal to get Orlando’s Creative Village rolling now on city council’s table

State university system chairman urges improvements in research standing

Shannon Nickinson: University of West Florida’s story is Pensacola’s story — striving to do more

Bob Sparks: FAMU drama heads into next act

Longtime Florida educational policy insider Deborah Gallay dies

Daniel Tilson: In Rick Scott's Florida, if the flooding doesn't get you, lack of health insurance will

Daniel Tilson: Gov. Rick Scott angling for Sen. Bill Nelson's seat in 2018

Marc J. Yacht: Concealed weapons on campus — tragedy in the making!