September 2016

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Colleges &

Universities of Florida

UM President Julio Frenk and

Representative Jose Felix Diaz

PBAU President Fleming; Senator Lizabeth Benaquisto and Hodges

University president Donald Wortham

Representative Shevrin Jones and Keiser University Chancellor Art

Honor RollHonor Roll!

Several ICUF schools honored legislators within their districts with a plaque in recognition of their support of higher independent ed-ucation during the 2016 legislative session. University of Miami presi-dent Julio Frenk honored Representative Jose Felix Diaz; Palm Beach Atlantic University president William Fleming along with new Hodges University president Donald Wortham honored Senator Lizbeth Benaquisto; and Keiser University chancellor Art Keiser honored Representative Shevrin Jones.

Honor RollHonor Roll!

ICUF Honor Roll $78,000 in UPS Scholarships Awarded ICUF Schools Well Represented in 2017 Three ICUF Schools Join The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge Florida Tech Installs Fifth President Beacon President Chris-tens Summer of Success Stetson has Two Florida Campus Compact Award Winners Florida Chief Financial Officer Visits PBAU Florida College Awards Eighteen Presidential Scholarships Ringling Students Win 2016 Student Academy Award! Embry-Riddle Partners with Silver Airways to Address Pilot Shortage New Research Center at Nova Southeastern Includes a Partnership Barry’s School of Social Work awarded $2.6M Federal Grant Bethune-Cookman Receives $908,540 in Partnership with FAMU Beacon Beefs Up Majors Ave Maria Sends Delegates to Rome Saint Leo Lions Golfer Is the Canadian Amateur Champion Ringling Named Top U.S. Film School Flagler Art Professor Awarded Community Foundation Grant Southeastern Opens Buena Vida Building Keiser Becomes Fifth Sun Conference School to Add Football UT Opens New Campus Fitness & Rec. Center

Honor RollHonor Roll!

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$78,000 in UPS Scholarships Awarded to Students at Florida’s Private Colleges and Universities

Thirty low-income students attending Florida private colleges and universities recently re-ceived a combined total of $78,000 in UPS Scholarship awards. Distributed by the Florida Independ-ent College Fund (FICF), students each received $2,600 that can be used toward tuition and college expenses. One undergraduate student at each ICUF member institution received the scholarship. The scholarships are made possible by a grant from the UPS Educational Endowment Fund admin-istered by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) in Washington, D.C. “The path to better career and economic opportunity is through higher education,” said Dr. Ed Moore, president of the Independent Colleges & Universities of Florida. “Florida’s low-income stu-dents deserve these same opportunities and I am grateful to the UPS Educational Endowment Fund for supporting them in their efforts to obtain a degree.” Nationally, CIC and the UPS Foundation teamed up to provide nearly $1.5 million in student scholar-ships this year, which are being distributed through state-based private college associations around the country. “Helping to make college affordable for students from underserved populations is a truly criti-cal need in our society, and it is rewarding to know that The UPS Foundation is addressing this im-portant issue head-on,” said Richard Ekman, president of CIC. “The independent colleges and uni-versities in this country have a remarkable track record in educating and graduating low-income and first generation students, so it is natural that The UPS Foundation would want to work through CIC and its member institutions in this special scholarship program.” “UPS’s long-standing policies and inclusive culture make it one of the most diverse compa-nies in the world. The UPS Foundation is committed to support effective programs—like the UPS Scholarship program through CIC—that provide diverse populations with advancement opportuni-ties,” said Eduardo Martinez, president of the UPS Foundation. “Key partners such as CIC help to advance our mission. The UPS Scholarship program has made a college education possible for more than 19,000 low-income and first generation students and has had a transformative impact on individual lives, on families, and on communities across this country. UPS and its employees, active and retired, invested more than $110 million in charitable giving around the world, including more than 2.3 million hours of volunteer service, to local communities around the world in 2015.”

Dr. Moore presents a mock scholarship check to ICUF presidents

Three ICUF institutions, Rollins College, Stetson University, and the University of Miami, have registered for the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge. Recognizing the importance of helping college students form the habits of civic engagement and participation, the ALL IN Campus Democ-racy Challenge will work with institutions of higher education to improve, measure, and celebrate ef-forts to change campus climate and encourage informed participation in our democracy. The ALL IN Challenge, a program of Civic Nation, recognizes campuses committed to improving democratic en-gagement, increasing voter participation rates, and graduating informed and active citizens. Cam-puses commit to a set of actions, are recognized for achieving established benchmarks, and are pre-sented awards for exemplary efforts. Participation is open to all accredited, degree-granting postsec-ondary institutions in the United States. The ALL IN initiative has multiple prominent partners, such as Campus Compact, NASPA, and TurboVote. Civic Nation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that works with public and pri-vate partners to build tools and campaigns that turn great ideas into action.

Three ICUF Schools Join The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge

Please go to: http://www.allinchallenge.org/ for more information on ALL IN

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Every year, U.S. News & World Report ranks thousands of colleges and universities in an ef-fort to help students make one of the most important decisions of their lives. And every year, ICUF schools rank high in several categories. U.S. News recently released its 2017 rankings, and multiple ICUF schools were recognized. According to U.S. News, schools in the National Universities category, such as Columbia Uni-versity and the University of Pennsylvania, “offer a full range of undergraduate majors, plus master's and doctoral programs. These colleges also are committed to producing groundbreaking research.” In this category, University of Miami was ranked #44, higher than any other Florida institution. Regional Universities offer a full range of undergraduate programs and some master's and doctoral programs. In this category (South region), Rollins College was ranked #2, and Stetson University was ranked #5. Regional Colleges focus on undergraduate education. Here (South region), Flagler College was ranked #2. For more information on the U.S. News & World Report rankings, see http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings. On another list of top colleges and universities, ICUF schools were standouts. College Factu-al (http://www.collegefactual.com/) recently ranked public and private colleges in Florida based on student body caliber, educational resources, degree completion, and post-graduation earnings. Six of the top ten colleges and universities in Florida were ICUF schools: #2, University of Miami; #3, Rollins College; #4, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; #7, Stetson University; #9, Eckerd Col-lege; and #10, Nova Southeastern University. Also, the Wall Street Journal recently published a list ranking 500 colleges and universities, both public and private. WSJ’s rankings are based on 15 factors across four categories: student outcomes, school resources, student engagement, and learning environment/diversity. University of Miami was ranked #37 overall, the highest of any Florida institution, and the only Florida institution in the top 50. On the single measure of learning environment/diversity, Barry University ranked #8. Congratulations, ICUF schools!

ICUF Schools Well Represented in 2017

U.S. News & World Report and Other Rankings

Beacon College President George Hagerty christened the maid-en voyage of Summer for Success, the college’s three-week immersion experience that exposes rising high school juniors and seniors to a concentrated taste of the college experience and arms students who learn differently with strategies and life skills to bolster their success in high school and beyond. The Summer for Success program, Hagerty said, was created “to expose you to the world of college so that you feel comfortable with the expectations. You will live the college experi-ence the next three weeks. Professors will put you though your paces. We want you to explore both that college is achievable and that you can be a great success at it.” Summer for Success shores up students’ communications and life skills with courses in “Writing an Effective Es-say” and “Learning Essentials & Self-Discovery,” and gives students room to explore interests with electives in car ownership basics, digital video, everyday Florida science, food preparation, sculptural casting and more. This year’s edition, 34 students from across the United States and Ecuador, represents the full realization of Summer of Success, piloted last year with students from Saudi Arabia.

Dr. George Hagerty swapped his mantle as

Beacon College president for a skipper’s hat.

Beacon President Christens Summer of Success

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Florida Tech Installs Fifth President

T. Dwayne McCay was formally installed as the fifth president of Flori-da Institute of Technology, championing a new era of success. “Momentum at Florida Tech has been building for several years,” McCay said. “That momen-tum has carried us to be ranked one of the top 20 small universities in the world. It has aided us in attracting talented faculty and students and additional donors to even further build that momentum. Now we are prepared to climb even higher in the ranks of great universities, both small and large,” McCay added. “The student body is increasing in quality, expert faculty are being hired in critical areas and plans are under development for an expansion of programs and facilities to meet the demands of our modern era.”

T. Dwayne McCay

Stetson has Two Florida Campus Compact Award Winners

Two Stetson University community members, Rajni Shankar-Brown, Ph.D., and Veronica Her-nandez, will be recognized at the annual Florida Campus Compact Awards Gala for their commit-ment and support to their communities. Rajni Shankar-Brown, Ph.D, associate professor of educa-tion and director of education graduate programs, was named a Florida Campus Compact Engaged Scholarship Faculty Award Winner. Shankar-Brown, the Jessie Ball duPont Social Justice chair and faculty advisor to the Student Homeless Coalition, is the founder and executive director of the annual Poverty and Homelessness Conference at Stetson University. Additionally, Stetson University and President Wendy B. Libby have been nominated as finalists for the Campus Community Partnership and Engaged Campus of the Year award.

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences held its 43rd Student Academy Award Ceremony honor-ing Computer Animation students Kal Athannassov, John McDonald, and Echo Wu with the Silver Medal in the Animation category for their work, The Wishgranter. Seventeen students were announced as winners this year in the categories of Alternative, Animation, Docu-mentary, Narrative, Foreign Narrative, Foreign Anima-tion, and Foreign Documentary. “This whole experience has been incredible,” remarks student winner Echo Wu. “We did not expect to come so far with the film. But it is moments like this we are extremely glad we worked as hard as we did on the film to make it the best we possibly could.”

According to Animation World Network, the “Academy received a record number of entries this year—1,749 films from 286 domestic and 95 international colleges and universities—which were voted by a record number of Academy members.” Of this year’s seven projects competing in the fi-nal round, three were the work of Ringling College students.

Ringling Students Win 2016 Student Academy Award!

Embry-Riddle Partners with Silver Airways to Address Pilot Shortage

Silver Airways is trying to find solutions to a nationwide pilot shortage the old-fashioned way – by putting its money where its mouth is. The airline is partnering with the state of Florida and its famed Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University to address the shortage by providing financial assis-tance to the school via the Professional Pilot Apprenticeship/Internship (PPAI) Grant program. The program focuses on increasing the level and number of potential pilots coming to the state to earn their undergraduate degree and professional pilot certifications. Silver Airways will provide additional training opportunities and a direct pathway to jobs at the Florida-based carrier.

According to the 2016 Boeing Pilot and Technician Outlook report, between now and 2035, the aviation industry will need to supply more than 2 million new aviation personnel worldwide, in-cluding 617,000 commercial airline pilots – 112,000 in North America alone. The grant, which could be offered to as many as 60 students, will require completion of an undergraduate degree at Embry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach, Fla., campus. After satisfying academic and training qualifications for the grant, it would then provide opportunities for students to be offered jobs as professional pilots at Fort Lauderdale-based Silver Airways.

Money to support the program is from a $2 million grant to the university approved earlier this year by Florida Gov. Rick Scott. “As a global leader in aviation and aerospace higher education, Embry-Riddle is proud of its reputation for providing world-class, all-encompassing and comprehen-sive degree programs for our future pilots – and that includes the vital skills they need to be suc-cessful in their careers by offering the best in hands-on training in and out of the classroom,” Embry-Riddle Interim President Dr. Karen A. Holbrook said in a statement. “An initiative such as this re-flects the unfailing commitment by the State of Florida, the aviation industry and higher education to instill valuable, affordable and quality skills, knowledge, experience and opportunity to its future.”

“This partnership with the State of Florida, Embry-Riddle and Silver Airways will provide stu-dents eager to become pilots with the financial support and a solid career pathway to fulfill their dreams and allow aviation to continue to thrive in our home state,” said Silver Airways President and CEO Sami Teittinen. “This Professional Pilot Apprenticeship/Internship Grant program is yet another example of Silver’s innovative initiatives to provide opportunities for pilots to advance their careers.” Source: Travel Pulse.

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New Research Center at Nova Southeastern Includes a Partnership

Nova Southeastern University held the grand open-ing for its biomed Center for Collaborative Research, a 215,000-sq.-ft., $80-million building that is “really going to be transformational,” says Dr. H. Thomas Temple, the uni-versity’s senior vice president of translational research and economic development. The building will be one of the most advanced and largest research facilities in the state. The center will host NSU’s AutoNation Institute for Breast and Solid Tumor Cancer Research, the Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine, the Rumbaugh-Goodwin Institute for Cancer Research and the Emil Buehler Re-search Center for Engineering, Science and Mathematics along with the U.S. Geological Survey, com-mercial enterprises, incubators and an accelerator. It will house high-performing computers and what NSU says will be one of Florida’s largest wet labs. One additional tenant: NSU’s Cell Therapy Institute, a collaboration with researchers from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, which Alfred Nobel selected to determine who each year should win his namesake prize in physiology or medicine. The institute’s ini-tial focus is on cancers, heart disease and blindness disorders.

Barry’s School of Social Work awarded $2.6M Federal Grant

Barry University's School of Social Work has been awarded a $2.6 million federal grant from the Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA). The grant will be distributed over the course of four years at $650,000 each year. The HRSA grant will provide scholarship dollars for a new student program called Social Work CONNECT, a graduate, educational opportunity program that pro-vides aspiring social work students who are socio-economically challenged with additional educational resources and financial support that would assist them in the pursuit of a clinical social work career. Students of Social Work CONNECT will receive a series of academic supports, mentoring and profes-sional seminars to advance their trauma-informed social work education in the service of medically un-derserved communities.

Students receiving scholarship assistance through the grant will work in behavioral health set-tings, medically under-served communities and mental health clinics, providing them with experiential learning in behavioral health work.

Bethune-Cookman Receives $908,540 in Partnership with FAMU

Bethune-Cookman University will receive $908,540 over a five-year period as a member of the

Center for Coastal and Marine Ecosystems (CCME) funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration’s Educational Partnership Program with Minority Serving Institutions. B-CU is one of

the six partnering institutions working with lead institution Florida A&M University, California State Uni-

versity - Monterey Bay, Jackson State University, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and the Uni-

versity of Texas at Rio Grande Valley. B-CU along with other partner institutions bring an abundance

of significant academic programs and faculty with extensive expertise in coastal marine ecosystems.

These institutions also have well-established records of policy, preparing graduates for productive ca-

reers and conducting high impact research. Dr. Hyun Jung Cho, Professor of Integrated Environmen-

tal Science will serve as the B-CU Principal Investigator and will lead one of CCME’s three thematic

areas, “Place-based Conversation,” which will address management of coastal resources and envi-

ronmental challenges facing coastal communities such as habitat loss, water quality degradation, loss

of biodiversity, and balancing economic issues of resource management and recreation.

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Beacon College this fall became the second American college or uni-versity to offer an undergraduate major in anthrozoology. Anthrozoology ex-amines the science of human-animal relationship. It’s a field popularized re-cently through widely reported news stories including Cecil the Lion, Black-fish, and the Cincinnati Zoo gorilla incident, says Brian Ogle, a Beacon an-throzoology instructor. Beacon students will explore various intersections of human society and non-human animals. Major topics include zoos, pet own-ership, animals as food, conflict with wildlife, and animals in entertainment. Students will gain theoretical knowledge and applied skills in multiple animal-focused industries. “Anthrozoology combines traditional science skills that can be taught in our existing facilities with the modern evolution of biological sciences to fit into our traditional liberal-arts culture,” Ogle says. “The nature of the program will allow our students to thrive in a science program and prepare them to successfully enter into the workforce. This major exemplifies our dedication and commitment to innovative curriculum and instructional practices that sets Beacon apart from any oth-er college,” Ogle says. “It is very exciting to be a part of leading and shaping the future of the field.”

Beacon Beefs Up Majors with Exclusive Anthrozoology

Ave Maria Sends Delegates to Rome for Canonization of Mother Teresa

Brian Ogle

Ave Maria University President Jim Towey, a delegation of 32 AMU Trustees, and a second group of 31 AMU students departed for Rome, Italy this month to participate in the canonization cer-emony for Mother Teresa. AMU is hosting a week of activities for students in honor of the newly pro-claimed saint. The week was packed with opportunities for AMU students to discover this incredible woman of the 20th century, including campus museum tours of the only Mother Teresa Museum in the world, public service activities in the Southwest Florida community and the kick off of a student dorm competition called Champions of Charity. AMU is becoming the epicenter of devotion to Moth-er Teresa in Catholic higher education. In 2013, the Missionaries of Charity granted AMU permission to establish the “Mother Teresa Project at Ave Maria University,” the first-of- its-kind in the world. No other college campus in America has a program of study and service which honors this Nobel Peace Prize winner. The goal of the Mother Teresa Project is to produce AMU graduates who will spread Mother Teresa's compassion and teachings to a new generation of Americans, and in the process, spread peace in the same manner as she did – one person at a time.

Saint Leo Lions Golfer Is the Canadian Amateur Champion

Saint Leo sophomore Hugo Bernard won the 112th Cana-dian Men’s Amateur Championship, at the Royal Ottawa Golf Club in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. Bernard won by two strokes with a four-round total 271 (-11) over Andy Zhang, 273 (-9). The Saint Leo player is from Quebec. Bernard also competed in the 116th U.S. Amateur Championships in Bloomfield, MI where he advanced to the round of 64 before falling in match play to Sam Horsfield, who is ranked No. 1 in the Scratch Player World Ama-teur Rankings. Earlier this year, Bernard and his teammates earned the NCAA Division II National Championship for the Saint Leo Lions. Bernard won the NCAA Division II National Champion-ship individual title.

Hugo Bernard

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Flagler College Associate Professor of Art Sara Pedigo was recently awarded a 2016 Art Ventured Grant from the Community Foundation for Northeast Florida. Each year, the foundation selects regional artists who are “poised to make new strides in their artistic pursuits” and awards them grants of up to $3,500. “Sara has exhibited widely, both regionally and nationally in both solo and group exhibitions,” said Susan Datz Edelman, spokesperson for the Community Foundation. “The panel was influenced by the strength of her work and how it re-flected the beauty of everyday North Florida scenes.”

The grant amount of $3,500 will fund camera equipment to improve Pedigo’s ability to represent the quality of her paint-ings in digital media. The rest will fund supplies and a small sti-pend for time to paint. Pedigo is a representational artist, whose paintings and drawings record the seemingly insignifi-cant moments of everyday life —such as the evening light cast on bedroom curtains, a dog lounging on a sofa or an azalea propped up in a glass jar. “My artistic practice focuses on the search for beauty in mundane surroundings, emanating from a desire to show my gratitude towards life itself,” Pedigo said. “Collectively, these works serve as a testament to being both mentally and physically present in the world. Aesthetically, the works meditate on the fleeting nature of light and life as recorded via perceptual phenomenon.” With generous help from the 2015 Kahler Award, she mentored two senior Flagler College Fine Art majors, Savanna Jones and Van Eggers, in the prepa-ration for the exhibition. Together they photographed the artwork, constructed frames, framed and prepared 31 paintings and drawings for hanging in the exhibition.

Flagler Art Professor Awarded Community Foundation Grant

The Hollywood Reporter came out with its sixth annual ranking of the “Top 25 American Film Schools,” naming Ringling College of Art and Design as number 16. Moving up a space since last year, Ringling College is the youngest film school to make the list. Film students of the College enjoy access to some of the biggest names in the filmmaking indus-try through the Ringling College Studio Lab, includ-ing Roman Coppola, Kevin Smith, Werner Herzog, and Sissy Spacek (among others) and will soon have access to a 30,000 square foot soundstage and post production facility, scheduled to open next year. According to THR, “the magazine assembled the list by consulting with academic experts, industry professionals and scores of film school alumni.” Con-gratulations to the RCAD Film Department!

Ringling Named a Top U.S. Film School

Dylan McDermott (left) directed his web

series, with DP Nick Morgulis

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During a visit to Palm Beach Atlantic Uni-versity, Chief Financial Officer and North Palm Beach native Jeff Atwater encouraged student leaders to rely on the foundation they are receiv-ing at PBA when faced with tough choices in the future. “When your decision-making is founded upon principles, you can become the person that others can find comfort in and strength to do the same,” Atwater said to a small group of Student Government leaders and members of the Univer-sity’s administrative team. Atwater, who served in various elected roles in local and state govern-ment prior to becoming CFO, said he often has faced difficult decisions. But “I never labored over a choice I had to make,” he said. In his current role, he oversees the state’s $82 billion budget and serves as state fire marshal and a member of the Florida Cabinet.

Florida Chief Financial Officer Visits Palm Beach Atlantic

Student Government leaders (from left) Megan

Freeman, Daniel Grasso, Cassie Stanton and Paul

Fisher. Florida CFO Jeff Atwater (center).

Florida College Awards Eighteen Presidential Scholarships

Eighteen President’s Scholars have joined Florida College’s freshman class for the fall 2016 semester. Each of the 18 President’s Scholars earned a 3.65 GPA or above in high school and at least a 32 on the ACT or a 1410 on the SAT. These achievements qualify each of the students to receive the president’s scholarship from Florida College. Paul Casebolt, Florida College’s director of admissions and retention services, is thrilled to welcome these outstanding students to campus this fall. “We are excited to see such a large number of President’s Scholars in our incoming class, in-cluding a National Merit Semifinalist and National Merit Finalist,” Casebolt said. “It indicates that these high-caliber students, all of whom had several college options to consider, looked at the na-ture of the education we offer at Florida College and recognized both its rigor and value.”

High-achieving students like this year’s President’s Scholars come to Florida College for a rigorous academic experience and countless opportunities to grow spiritually, build meaningful rela-tionships and make memories that will last a lifetime. “We look forward to seeing how these students contribute to our community of scholars at Florida College,” Casebolt said. The following students have qualified as President’s Scholars and joined the Florida College class of 2020: Abigail Alford; Ethan Bingham; Sean Bray; Joshua Duke; Brent Dyer; Tyler Henderson; Steven Johnson; David Lancaster; Samuel Lee; Julie LeFort; Jason Mallo; Andrew Robin; Emily Roche; Joshua Sanders; Denae Sink; Mary Rose Stinson; Tasha Whitsitt; and Abigail Wood.

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Southeastern Opens Buena Vida Building

Students arriving back on Southeastern University’s campus this fall were met with a new five-story-building known as “Buena Vida.” A one-of-a-kind building, which can be seen from downtown Lakeland, in-cludes student dorm rooms for more than 300 students, faculty offices, classrooms and a food court with Backyard Burger, Papa John’s Pizza and Einstein Bros. Bagels. “In the last five years, Southeastern has seen a 78 percent increase in our enrollment. Nearly 70 percent of our students live on campus and our housing capacity is at 100 percent. We are expecting more than 1,000 incoming freshmen. As our student body continues to grow, we have continued to expand to meet that growth. The natural next step for us was to build a live/learn facility,” said Ex-ecutive Vice President Brian Carroll. The Buena Vida Building also includes a visual arts gallery, music rooms, a testing center, tutoring lab, and an auditorium that seats 280. The College of Arts & Media, the College of Behavioral & Social Sciences, and the Jannetides College of Business & Entrepreneurial Leadership will be housed in the new building.

The University of Tampa opened a new two-story, 40,000-square-foot Fitness and Recreation Center, centrally located on the UT campus. The center is a one-stop shop for all exercise pro-grams, personal training and evaluation, wellness and nutrition programs, intramurals, recreation activities, club sports and some exercise related laboratory and research activities. It features six group exercise rooms, which include one Spinning® room. Two small fitness assessment rooms have been incorporated in the floor plan, as well as a room for meetings and special events. The facility will offer more than 60 group fitness classes per week, and will house the Office of Campus Recreation.

University of Tampa Opens New Campus Fitness & Recreation Center

Keiser Becomes Fifth Sun Conference School to Add Football

Chancellor Dr. Arthur Keiser announced that Keiser University will add football and begin play in 2018. Keiser now boasts 22 intercollegiate teams, and is the fifth full-time school in the conference to add football. The Seahawks will join Southeastern, Webber, Warner and Ave Maria. Previously known as Northwood University, Keiser acquired North-wood’s West Palm Beach campus in July of 2015. It absorbed all of Northwood’s athletic teams. Keiser’s search for a head coach has begun and the school expects to have its stadium completed at that West Palm Beach campus by the summer of 2018.

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