Anne GeggisOctober 17, 2023
5min0
The Senate Democratic Leader-designate plans to hit 12 colleges and universities to convince the youngest voters to make their mark in the voting booth.
Tag: Rollins College
Anne GeggisOctober 17, 2023
Scott PowersJune 29, 2021
4min1763
A group is appealing to Marco Rubio, Rick Scott, to support the Dream Act.
Scott PowersSeptember 13, 2019
5min381
'We want their help," Soto said of Scott and other Senate Republicans.
Jacob OglesJuly 30, 2019
9min1279
Members statewide frustrated over infighting, lack of transparency.
Scott PowersNovember 30, 2016
10min1085
An event in Congresswoman-elect Stephanie Murphy‘s infancy keeps redirecting her life, a life that has the 38-year-old business professor heading to Washington to represent Orlando and Central Florida as the first Vietnamese-American woman in Congress. When she was six months old, her family fled Vietnam on a refugee boat. Stephanie, her mother, father, brother, and dozens of mostly […]
Guest AuthorJune 3, 2016
7min215
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” — Maya Angelou. In 1977, before VCRs became ubiquitous, “Roots” seized America by the throat — and never let go. Over eight nights, the trailblazing TV miniseries chronicled the struggle of kidnapped African Kunta Kinte and his descendants […]
Scott PowersMarch 14, 2016
4min171
Former President Bill Clinton wrapped up Hillary Clinton’s campaign for Florida’s Democratic primary by assuring a Rollins College rally that a more universal prosperity is possible and she is ready to deliver it. Speaking to about 3,000 people gathered in a basketball gym at the Winter Park campus, Bill Clinton said the recovery from the […]
Phil AmmannJune 19, 2015
4min286
A top 100 U.S. law firm has joined the Florida Businesses for a Competitive Workforce Coalition in its effort to pass statewide discrimination protection in employment, housing, and public accommodations. Akerman LLP, the largest law firm in Florida and one of the 34 top employers in the state, has joined the fight for the Competitive […]
Phil AmmannJune 16, 2015
4min260
Aspiring to a political career? There’s a class for that. Future political candidates in seven Florida counties are encouraged to apply for the 2015 Class of the Central Florida Political Leadership Institute (PLI). PLI is an innovative initiative designed to prepare the next generation of civic leaders to run for elected office. Applications are now being […]
Phil AmmannApril 7, 2015
4min258
A Catholic student group and two colleges are the latest organizations to voice support for the fight for statewide discrimination protections in employment, housing, and public accommodations. Winter Park-based Rollins College joins a coalition of 30 major Florida employers, including the University of North Florida (UNF) in Jacksonville, in supporting the Competitive Workforce Act. The […]