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UWF Innovation Institute helps more than 100,000 Florida students explore career opportunities

MyCareerShines surpasses major milestone in online registrations MyCareerShines, Florida’s comprehensive education and career planning system, recently announced that more than 100,000 Florida students have registered to use this innovative, online tool. Making its debut in September 2015, MyCareerShines has quickly become the go-to resource to help Florida students plan for future career opportunities. The system […]

Mar. 07, 2016

UWF music students lead the state at Florida Music Educators Association Conference

The University of West Florida Department of Music recently sent nine instrumentalists and nine vocalists to the annual Florida Music Educators Association Conference held Jan. 13-16, 2016. Seven of the instrumentalists were selected from undergraduate music students around the state to play in the All-State Intercollegiate Band, with two of the students placing first chair. […]

Mar. 04, 2016

Maritime book collection now available at University of West Florida

Archaeologists, historians and the casually curious can all find gold in a rare and distinctive collection of maritime books recently donated to the University of West Florida’s library. Whether the subject of interest is a legal document, a personal diary or notes about shipwreck remains, researchers are likely to find something in the hundreds of […]

Mar. 03, 2016

UWF Presidential Search Committee to host open forum with presidential search firm

The University of West Florida’s Presidential Search Committee will seek input regarding the presidential search through open forum meetings on March 7 and 8, 2016. On Feb. 22, 2016, the UWF Presidential Search Committee selected Greenwood/Asher and Associates, Inc. as the official search firm for the UWF Presidential Search. Greenwood/Asher and Associates, Inc. will be […]

Mar. 02, 2016

Column: 90% high school graduation rate would add millions to area economy

New grads collectively would earn an extra $30M, raise tax revenue by $1M by 2022 By ALLISON TYLER | atyler1@uwf.edu Allison Tyler serves as economic development coordinator for the Haas Center at the University of West Florida in Pensacola. Officials in Alabama are celebrating a recent announcement that the state’s high school graduation rate has […]

Mar. 02, 2016

UWF Center for Applied Psychology to assess PALS program

The Arc Gateway organization of Pensacola has contracted with the University of West Florida Center for Applied Psychology to help evaluate the two-year Program for Adult Learning. The Arc is an organization supporting those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Its PALS program, created in 2014, gives adults with disabilities the opportunity to go to college, […]

Mar. 02, 2016

UWF’s William Healey elected to NIRSA Board of Directors

William M. Healey, recreation and sports services director at the University of West Florida, was elected to the NIRSA: Leaders in Collegiate Recreation Board of Directors as the At-Large Director. The honor was announced on Feb. 8, after an online vote by NIRSA members. Beginning May 1, Healey will serve a three-year term governing strategic […]

Mar. 01, 2016

UWF announces D.W. McMillan Foundation endowment to nursing program

Yesterday, the University of West Florida Foundation announced a gift commitment by the D.W. McMillan Foundation to the University’s BSN Nursing Program. The $250,000 gift will provide program support to UWF’s undergraduate nursing education, to be named the Dr. D.W. McMillan BSN Nursing Program. “The D.W. McMillan Foundation is widely known throughout our region for […]

Mar. 01, 2016

UWF speech and debate program provides leadership opportunities for students through home tournament

The University of West Florida Department of Communication Arts Speech and Debate Program recently hosted the annual Marks Invitational Speech and Debate Tournament. Students from 14 universities met to participate in 13 different public speaking events and parliamentary debate. Nine UWF Speech and Debate students competed in the tournament, with one, senior Candy Roosa, placing […]

Feb. 29, 2016

UWF College of Business accepting nominations for the 2016 Combined Rotary of Pensacola Ethics in Business Award

The University of West Florida College of Business, in partnership with the Combined Rotary Clubs of Pensacola, is accepting nominations for the 2016 Combined Rotary of Pensacola Ethics in Business Award. “We are proud that this will be the 14th year that the Rotary Clubs of Pensacola and the UWF College of Business have recognized […]

Feb. 29, 2016

UWF welcomes new chair of Department of Social Work

The University of West Florida College of Education and Professional Studies welcomes Dr. Roy “Butch” Rodenhiser as the chair of the Department of Social Work. “We are excited to have Dr. Rodenhiser join UWF to lead the department of social work,” said Dr. William Crawley, dean of the UWF College of Education and Professional Studies. […]

Feb. 26, 2016

UWF hospitality professor Dr. Andrew Holdnak receives excellence in research award

The Resort and Commercial Recreation Association presented its 2015 Excellence in Research Award to Dr. Andrew Holdnak, associate chair of the Department of Hospitality, Recreation and Resort Management at the University of West Florida. The award recognizes Holdnak’s case study entitled “Comparing 2010 Gulf Oil Spill Estimated Tourism Impacts on Escambia County, Florida, Using Bed […]

Feb. 24, 2016

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