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Florida Atlantic Expands Nursing Opportunities With New Traditional BSN Track
As South Florida healthcare organizations continue to compete for nurses, Florida Atlantic University is expanding its undergraduate nursing offerings with another route into the profession. FAU’s Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing is launching a new Traditional Bachelor of Science in Nursing track, with the first cohort scheduled to begin...
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Miami Herald
Racist group chats sparked fear at FIU. Now a judge signals who may win lawsuit
A federal judge in Miami signaled Thursday that she is strongly inclined to rule in favor of Florida International University in a First Amendment lawsuit brought by four students suspended or expelled over racist, antisemitic and violent messages exchanged in private group chats. Chief U.S. District Judge Cecilia Altonaga, speaking after two days of testimony, said the university had presented strong evidence that the messages frightened students, disrupted campus operations and interfered with its educational mission, regardless of whether the students intended their remarks as jokes. “I’m strongly inclined to deny your motion for preliminary injunction and enter a judgment on the merits for the defendant,” Altonaga told the attorneys and students. “Strongly inclined to do so.” The judge emphasized that she has not reached a final decision and would give the students’ lawyers another opportunity to persuade her through additional arguments. But she delivered a direct warning about their prospects. “It does not look good for you gentlemen over there,” Altonaga said, addressing the students. Her remarks followed extensive testimony from Dr. Emmanuele Bowles, a senior FIU administrator, who described students afraid to attend classes, complaints from parents and faculty members, increased campus police patrols and weeks of university
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Football Preview: The First Academy Trades the Road for Home to Face West Boca Raton + How To Watch
The First Academy has been away from home for two games now, but on Tuesday they'll finally make their return. They will face off against the West Boca Raton Bulls at 5:00 p.m. West Boca Raton is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 35.8 points per game this season.
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FAU expands youth mental health services and graduate counseling training through the OWLS-FLY initiative
Florida Atlantic University’s College of Education is expanding its clinical training opportunities for graduate counseling students while providing free mental health services to underserved children ages 6 to 17 and their families. This initiative vis through OWLS-FLY (Opportunity, Wellness, Leadership & Strength with Families Leading Youth), a three-year initiative...
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Columbus Makes History as First Florida High School Approved for Its Own Specialty License Plate
Christopher Columbus High School, a Catholic, Marist, college-preparatory school for boys in Miami, is making history as the first high school in Florida approved for a specialty license plate. Now, the school is calling on Explorer Nation—its community of alumni, families, students, faculty, staff and friends—to purchase the 3,000 presale vouchers required to begin production. […] The post Columbus Makes History as First Florida High School Approved for Its Own Specialty License Plate appeared first on Miami’s Community News .
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Likely Boundary Plan Puts All Westlake Students At New Elementary School
Present and future pre-kindergarten through fifth-grade students living within the entire City of Westlake likely will be attending the three-story, 96,000-square-foot elementary school going up at the intersection of Persimmon Blvd. and Green Lane. The School District of Palm Beach County’s Advisory Boundary Committee voted 10-0 on Thursday, Oct. 22...
Miami Herald
FIU students defend racist, violent group chats as jokes in federal trial
A Florida International University student expelled over racist and violent messages exchanged in private group chats testified Wednesday that even comments about beheading Black people were intended as humor, insisting that the university misunderstood deliberately shocking jokes when it punished students for their participation. “In this context, yes,” Dariel Gonzalez answered when questioned about whether a message advocating the beheading of someone because of their race was funny. Gonzalez, one of four students suing FIU over disciplinary sanctions they contend violated their First Amendment rights, acknowledged that the language could appear horrifying when viewed in isolation but argued that members of the private chats understood it as provocative humor. “If you just see this by itself, then yeah, it looks horrible,” Gonzalez said. “But if you see it within the context, it’s perfectly fine.” The testimony came during the first day of a two-day federal trial before Chief U.S. District Judge Cecilia Altonaga in Miami, where four students are challenging suspensions and expulsions the university imposed after racist, antisemitic and violent messages from their private conversations became public. The case pits the students’ claims of constitutionally protected private speech against FIU’s position that the messages contained threats and caused fear