Promotional Campaign Launched for ICUF Website’s Military Veterans College Network The Student GPS on ICUF’s Website Florida Tech Receives $246M Siemens Technology Grant Southeastern University President and U.S. Uni-versity Leaders Launch “Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration” Edward Waters Names Head Football Coach Barry Receives Engaged Campus of the Year Award Bethune-Cookman Gives to Local Families During the Holidays Flagler Reaches Out to Local Organizations Florida Southern Makes Princeton Review of Business Schools Saint Leo Professor Honored for Mentoring Boys & Girls Clubs Partners with Jacksonville University ICUF Fact of the Week

December Preferred Vendors

JourneyEd.com, Inc.

Workday

&

INDEPENDENT

Colleges

Universities of Florida

D e c e m b e r 2 0 1 7

E D H . M O O R E , P h D P R E S I D E N T ( 8 5 0 ) 6 8 1 - 3 1 8 8 e m o o r e @ i c u f . o r g

Promotional Campaign Launched for ICUF Website’s Military Veterans College Network

Promotion of ICUF’s redesigned website, ICUF.org, will begin in 2018. The

goal of this renovated site is to reach more potential students and route them to

our colleges and universities. A key element of this site is the Military

Veterans College Network. It is one of the six highlighted homepage slides. The

homepage “STUDENTS” pulldown links to resources for active military, veterans

and military families. The site provides education, benefits, transition and support

information, and resources. It directs potential students to ICUF college and uni-

versity websites, admissions offices, and veteran contacts on campuses. The

website’s direct address is http://www.icuf.org/students/military/.

Florida is the nation’s most military-friendly state, with more than

1,500,000 veterans and 21 major military installations. Florida recognizes the

importance of giving back to those who have sacrificed for us. ICUF is proud to

be part of this outreach. The Presidents of Florida’s Independent Colleges and

Universities created this Network to ensure ICUF fully supports military students

and their families. The Veterans College Network breaks down barriers that pre-

vent veterans from attaining their college degree, shares best practices, and

seeks new initiatives that enhance the military student experience. This unique

Network leverages the incredible value that veterans’ leadership, life experience

and maturity bring to the educational environment on campuses.

ICUF institutions are accessible and affordable for active duty military,

veterans and military families. The majority of ICUF schools have Veteran Centers

and Student Veteran Coordinators that link military students with admissions, aca-

demic counseling, financial aid and other resources. ICUF institutions also work

diligently to fully recognize the academic value of military service through the

Prior Learning Assessment process. These Centers significantly enhance military

students’ college experience by providing a personal outreach. ICUF institutions

provide the military community routes to degrees, careers, and success in Florida.

Twenty ICUF colleges and universities are Yellow Ribbon colleges and

universities. The Yellow Ribbon Program is a provision of the Post-9/11 GI Bill

that allows veterans to attend private colleges and universities that cost more

than the public tuition cap. Under the program, participating colleges and universi-

ties offer veterans-only scholarships, which the VA will then match up to the full

cost of tuition and fees. ICUF will continue to promote and perfect its Military

Veterans College Network. We thank our veterans and their families for their

sacrifices and look forward to serving them.

December Page 2

Siemens has provided Florida Institute of Technology with an in-kind software grant that will enable the university to offer students powerful, hands-on learning experiences to better equip them for future STEM careers. The in-kind grant has a commercial value of more than $246 million. It is centered on Siemens’ industry-leading product lifecycle management (PLM) software, which is used by more than 150,000 companies around the world in the aerospace, automotive, medical device, machinery, shipbuilding and high-tech electronics sectors. More than 75 companies in Florida use the software, including Northrop Grumman, whose Manned Aircraft Design Center of Excellence is based in Melbourne. These companies use Siemens’ PLM software – including Simcenter™ and NX™ software, the Teamcenter® portfolio and the Tecnomatix® portfolio – to design, develop and manufacture some of the world’s most sophisticated products, and Florida Tech students across the university’s colleges and programs will now be able to use the same programs. “This is huge,” said Florida Tech President Dwayne McCay. “One of our core values is to prepare students for a lifetime of success, and this grant will offer them the opportunity to learn the cutting-edge skills that will be essential for success in advanced manufacturing.”

Florida Tech Receives $246M Siemens Technology Grant

The Student GPS on ICUF’s Website

A new tool on ICUF’s redesigned website www.icuf.org provides tactics, technology, tools and training for students, parents, counselors, educators and employers to chart simple, swift and afford-able routes to success from schools, colleges and universities to careers.

Today, a mobile phone’s GPS (Global Positioning System) provides different routes to any destination. ICUF’s website Student GPS provides a graduation pathways system with toolkits for high school, college and university students. It has a toolkit to help students make career decisions. There is also a toolkit for academic and career planners at schools, colleges and university. Each toolkit provides a short tutorial to get started and links to additional help planning a higher education pathway. The goal of this new Student GPS is to reach more potential students and route them to our colleges and universities. The Student GPS is one of the six highlighted homepage slides. The homepage “STUDENTS” pulldown links to resources for high school, college and university stu-dents, as well as counselors. Here is the direct link address of the GPS. An important first step is to decide on the colleges or universities to explore. The ICUF web-site provides additional general information about independent colleges and universities in Florida, as well as specific information on 30 Florida independent colleges and universities. For students looking for distance learning certificate and degree programs, there is a search tool to find online of-ferings at institutions, programs available and the level of certificates and degrees awarded. This ICUF website can be a helpful start for students, but the best sources of information on a specific college or university is its website, its admissions staff and counselors at high schools, col-leges and universities who can answer student questions on higher education. ICUF counselors know the importance of a college degree to enhance your career opportunities. The 30 Independent Colleges and Universities are non-profit, Florida-based institutions with diverse missions, students, programs and communities. We offer on campus and online undergradu-ate, graduate and first-professional degrees throughout. Our courses, programs and degrees are accessible and affordable. The Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida (ICUF) are serving 157,000 students at 135 main and branch campuses in communities and on state college campus-es. For more information, please visit icuf.org and the Student GPS.

Edward Waters Names Head Football Coach

Edward Waters College has named Greg Ruffin the 14th full-time head coach in the history of the school’s foot-ball program. Ruffin comes to Edward Waters from Bethune-Cookman University of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Confer-ence, where he spent the 2017 season as Tight Ends Coach. Prior to his time at B-CU, he spent one season as head coach at Texas College.

Ruffin also has experience in building programs from the ground up. He was head coach for Paine College during the school's football program resurgence, after being dormant for more than 50 years. In 2002 he revived the football program at Shaw University after its 23-year hiatus, guiding the Bears to a 7-3 record in his lone season.

Greg Ruffin

December Page 3

Southeastern University President and U.S. University Leaders Launch “Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration”

Southeastern University’s president, Kent Ingle, along with over two dozen American higher education leaders across the United States, have launched the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Edu-cation and Immigration. The Alliance is a collective effort to improve how colleges and universities address immigration-related matters affecting their campuses. The Alliance will support adoption of best practices on campuses, and work in a unified manner to communicate the need for federal and state policies that create a welcoming environment for immigrant, undocumented, and interna-tional students. “A Presidential Alliance on immigration can amplify our collective voice as we rep-resent the needs and interests of the students in our educational institutions at the national level,” said Ingle. “The Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration is imperative to provide our students the support they need through being a part of shaping this national conversation.”

The Founding group of presidents and chancellors and the institution they lead include: Leon Botstein, Bard College, NY; Sylvia Burwell, American University, DC; Angel Cabrera, George Ma-son University, VA; Nancy Cantor, Rutgers University-Newark, NJ; Noelle Cockett, Utah State Uni-versity, UT; Shirley Collado, Ithaca College, NY; Michael Crow, Arizona State University, AZ; José Luis Cruz, Lehman College, CUNY, NY; John J. DeGioia, Georgetown University, DC; Christopher Eisgruber, Princeton University, NJ; Mark H. Erickson, Northampton Community College, PA; Drew Faust, Harvard University, MA; Jane Fernandes, Guilford College, NC; Elizabeth Hillman, Mills Col-lege, CA; Kent Ingle, Southeastern University, FL; Paula Johnson, Wellesley College, MA; Eliza-beth Kiss, Agnes Scott College, GA; Thomas LeBlanc, George Washington University, DC; Dorothy Leland, University of California - Merced, CA; Patricia McGuire, Trinity Washington University, DC; Diana Natalicio, University of Texas - El Paso; TX, Eduardo Padrón, Miami Dade College, FL; Bart Patterson, Nevada State College, NV; Lee Pelton, Emerson College, MA; Carol Quillen, Davidson College, NC; M. David Rudd, University of Memphis, TN; G. Gabrielle Starr, Pomona College, CA; and Timothy White, The California State University, CA. The Alliance is led by a Steering Commit-tee that includes presidents and chancellors from various institutions.

December Page 4

Barry Receives Engaged Campus of the Year Award

Barry University is a recipient of the Engaged Campus of the Year Award from Florida Cam-pus Compact. The award is presented in recognition of the University’s achievements in “advancing the public purposes of higher education, improving community life, and educating students for civic and social responsibility.” Dr. Glenn Bowen, executive director of the Center for Community Service Initiatives, accepted the award on behalf of the University. The presentation was made by Dr. Edwin Massey, president of Indian River State College and a member of the Florida Campus Compact Ex-ecutive Committee, at the organization’s Awards Gala, hosted by Rollins College in Winter Park.

Barry was honored for high achievements among the independent colleges and universities of Florida. Florida Campus Compact noted that community engagement is an institutional priority and social justice a core commitment at Barry University. Holding the Carnegie Community Engage-ment Classification, Barry prides itself on its role in inspiring students to bring positive change to the local and global community,” Florida Campus Compact acknowledged. “Each year, Barry is named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, most recently with distinction, for demonstrating strong levels of institutional commitment and providing a compelling case for part-nerships that produce measurable impact on the community.”

Bethune-Cookman Gives to Local Families During the Holidays

Bethune-Cookman University is spreading good cheer across Daytona Beach and surrounding communi-ties. The Office of Chaplaincy collected nearly 100 gift baskets during the annual Thanksgiving Day Chapel Service. Each basket was filled with a Thanksgiving meal for families in need. Since the early 1980s, B-CU has hosted this initiative to provide for the local community. This year, over 60 families received assistance.

More than 300 Flagler College students, faculty, staff and alumni fanned out across St. Au-gustine recently,for a day of community service that benefitted 14 local nonprofit organizations, ranging from an emergency shelter for abused women to a local reserve for unwanted exotic ani-mals. Called Reach Out Raise Up, the day is planned and organized by a student-led club at Flagler called the FC Volunteers. This is the fourth Reach Out event at Flagler, and FC Volunteers President Paige Arm-strong said it was by the far the biggest yet. “The turnout has been incredible, and it’s very exciting to see,” she said. The day had about 150 participants.

Armstrong said the day was not only about reaching out to the community and lending a hand, but also serving as an experiential learning opportunity for students. “It’s not just about helping, but also reflecting on what the im-portance of giving back is,” she said. “We want everybody to get something out of it, both the organizations and the students.”

Flagler Reaches Out to Local Organizations

December Page 5

The Barney Barnett School of Business and Free Enterprise at Florida Southern College has been included for the first time in the Princeton Re-view’s 267 Best Business Schools, a na-tionally respected guide for students and parents to the most elite schools. The Bar-nett School was one of just 10 colleges in Florida listed among the Best On-Campus MBA Programs. The Barnett School offers hybrid and online options for its MBA pro-gram and is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Busi-ness (AACSB), a distinction achieved by only 5 percent of college business schools in the world. Dr. James W. Fenton, Jr., dean of the Barnett School, said it was gratifying to be included in the 267 Best Business Schools. “This recognition is the result of our high quality students and our faculty, who are true master teachers. When you have great students and great professors, great outcomes will always follow,” he said.

A new 20,000-square-foot, $2.5 million “Jacksonville University Boys & Girls Club” near cam-pus will be among the vanguard of the nonprofit’s facilities when it opens in 2019, on land owned by the University. In a strong signal of its intentions for area improvement, JU has agreed to lease a ma-jority of its four-acre, property to the nonprofit at $1 per year for 50 years. The Boys & Girls Clubs will use the southern three acres of the parcel, with JU retaining the remaining acre for potential sale or additional future development. “We at the University are proud to team up with this great, community-based organization, the Boys & Girls Clubs, to help further enhance the neighborhood we call home,” said President Tim Cost, who created the partnership recently in discussions with BGCNF President and fellow JU alumnus Paul Martinez. More than 100 teens ages 12-18 are expected to be served each day at the new state-of-the-art facility, which will include a learning center, tech lab, fitness area, art studio, robotics lab, lounge and gymnasium with a full basketball court, among other amenities.

Boys & Girls Clubs Partners with Jacksonville University

Dr. Passard Dean, professor of accounting and finance at Saint Leo University, was named the Sunshine State Conference Faculty Mentor Award nominee for the NCAA Dr. Dave Pariser Faculty Mentor Award. The NCAA Dr. Dave Pariser Faculty Mentor Award honors an institutional faculty mem-ber at an NCAA Division II institution who has demonstrated dedication, support, and guidance to student-athletes and the institution's athletics program as a faculty member.

As the SSC's nominee for the NCAA Dr. Dave Pariser Faculty Mentor Award, Dr. Dean was selected by the SSC's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. "We are fortunate here at Saint Leo to have an extraordinarily gifted faculty who are supportive of our student-athletes both in their academic pursuits and as competitive athletes, and Dr. Dean has certainly been fore-most among those," said Francis X. Reidy, Saint Leo's director of athletics. Originally from Jamaica, Dr. Dean joined the Saint Leo faculty at Uni-versity Campus in 2008.

Dr. Passard Dean

Florida Southern Makes Princeton

Review of Business Schools

Saint Leo Professor Honored for Mentoring

December Page 6

December Page 7

of Independent Colleges and Universities Florida

Preferred Vendors

S P OT L I G H T S

Click HERE for a listing of all our ICUF Preferred Vendors

S P OT L I G H T S

JourneyEd.com, Inc.

5212 Tennyson Parkway, Suite 150 Plano, TX 75024 www.journeyed.com more about JourneyEd.com

JourneyEd.com, Inc., is the #1 resource for higher education technology buyers. We provide software, hardware and IT network solutions for thou-sands of schools nationwide.

Primary Contact: Kimberly Mauney Senior Account Manager (800) 876-3507 x 7119 kmauney@journeyed.com

Workday

6230 Stoneridge Mall Road Pleasanton, CA 94588 www.workday.com

Workday provides Higher Education with solutions built in this decade, delivered in

the cloud and accessible on any device, from anywhere. Core products include HCM/

PY & Finance (Gartner Magic Quadrant Leaders) & Student (the fastest growing SIS

in the market introduced in 2014). Workday serves over 150 schools worldwide and

12 in Florida including some ICUF members.

Primary Contact: Jason Hayes, Florida Higher Education Account Executive 1022 Carolina Blvd. Isle of Palms, SC 29451 (843) 364-7881 Jason.hayes@workday.com

Adventist University of Health Sciences

Ave Maria University

Barry University

Beacon College

Bethune-Cookman University

Eckerd College

Edward Waters College

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Everglades University

Flagler College

Florida College

Florida Institute of Technology

Florida Memorial University

Florida Southern College

Hodges University

Jacksonville University

Keiser University

Lynn University

Nova Southeastern University

Palm Beach Atlantic University

Ringling College of Art and Design

Rollins College

Saint Leo University

Southeastern University

St. Thomas University

Stetson University

The University of Tampa

University of Miami

Warner University

Webber International University

Please email comments and suggested news items to:

marmstrong@icuf.org.