Story Links ORLANDO, Fla. – The Sunshine State Conference announced its weekly award winners for the week of January 19-25, and two Sharks were highlighted. Ross Reeves and Emilia Ronningdal were named Men’s Basketball Player of the Week and Women’s Swimmer of the Week, respectively. Hailing from Orem, Utah, Reeves powered the Sharks to a 2-0 week with key conference wins over Saint Leo University and No. 4 Palm Beach Atlantic University. On the road against... Read More
Category: Education
Broward schools back down on plan to hold graduations in gymnasiums
The Broward School District has agreed to return most graduation ceremonies to rented venues after a plan to move them to three high school gymnasiums generated a firestorm of controversy. Superintendent Howard Hepburn issued a memo to Broward School Board members late Friday announcing the change in plans. The School Board heard from numerous students, parents and elected officials at a Wednesday meeting opposing the use of high school gyms. Public speakers questioned why some classes got... Read More
Conservative group says Los Angeles school policy hurts white students in federal lawsuit
By JAIMIE DING LOS ANGELES (AP) — A conservative group filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging a Los Angeles schools policy meant to address the harms of segregation, alleging that it discriminates against white students. The 1776 Project Foundation, created by the 1776 Project PAC, targeted in its lawsuit a Los Angeles Unified School District policy that provides smaller class sizes and other benefits to schools with predominantly Hispanic, Black, Asian or other non-white students.... Read More
Broward School Board members call for state DOGE audit after DeSantis rebuke
A day after Gov. Ron DeSantis described the Broward School District as a “disaster,” School Board members held a pair of news conferences Tuesday, inviting the district to be subjected to a state DOGE audit. School Board member Adam Cervera, a DeSantis appointee who has become increasingly vocal about recent district management missteps, held a solo news conference late in the morning to request the state’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to conduct “a whole-scale review... Read More
Vanderbilt seeks $250M in second-round fundraiser for West Palm Beach business school campus
Vanderbilt University reaffirmed its intention Monday to build a version of its Owen School of Management in downtown West Palm Beach. Along with the commitment, top university officials said they’re launching a second fundraising appeal, this time for $250 million after assembling sufficient funds to start a project that had a reported initial goal of $300 million. The South Florida business school campus has been more than two years in the making for the Nashville,Tennessee-based... Read More
DeSantis declares Broward School District ‘disaster,’ and says placing it in receivership might be needed
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday excoriated the Broward School District for a “laundry list of failures” and suggested it’s been so impervious to reform that placing it in receivership might be an option to fix it. “Honestly, it’s been a disaster. Let’s just be honest, it’s been a disaster in many different ways. It is really run more to benefit the entrenched interests, particularly the school unions, rather than the parents and the students,” DeSantis said at a news... Read More
Broward schools to investigate administrators related to botched construction oversight effort
Two high-level Broward schools administrators, including one who has already announced her resignation, are facing personnel investigations as a result of an audit that revealed failures in the district’s attempt to hire a company to oversee district construction, Superintendent Howard Hepburn said. The district’s human resources department is investigating Jennifer Andreu, executive director of procurement, and her boss, Chief Operating Officer Wanda Paul, Hepburn told School Board... Read More
Athletic Department Boasts Highest Semester GPA To Date
Story Links FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The Fall 2025 semester was a record-breaking one for the Nova Southeastern Athletic Department, as it posted the highest overall departmental grade point average to date with a 3.52 GPA. The 3.52 mark was just above the previous high of 3.51, set in Fall 2022 and tied in the Fall 2024 semester. The Fall 2025 semester marked the 31st consecutive semester with a 3.0 departmental GPA or better for the Athletic Department. “We are... Read More
Graziani, Nap Honored as Players of the Week
Story Links ORLANDO, Fla. – The fourth-ranked Nova Southeastern Sharks men’s basketball program had two players earn weekly awards after their two conference victories last week. Standouts Dallas Graziani and Jaxon Nap were highlighted as SSC Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week on Monday afternoon. Graziani’s performances were pivotal in the Sharks’ two key conference wins against Eckerd and Florida Southern (RV). He started the week off hot by... Read More
From classroom to cure: Student-led discovery of future antibiotics
Editor’s note: This article was written by Dr. Aarti Raja, a professor at Nova Southeastern University, in collaboration with South Florida Sun Sentinel staff writer Cindy Krischer Goodman. Antibiotic resistance has become an increasingly fatal problem that South Florida college students are trying to solve. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that in 2019, antimicrobial resistance killed 1.27 million people worldwide and nearly 5 million deaths were associated with... Read More