Video Tour: FEC Residence Halls

SIFE wins second national title

Flagler Students in Free Enterprise become two-time national champs

Whether teaching Nepalese refugees or training young employees on workplace ethics, the Flagler College Students In Free Enterprise team produced several unique projects this year that not only helped others, but also earned them a second national championship.

Students take host of major awards, scholarships

Flagler College students and recent grads landed a number of awards and scholarships during the spring semester

Learning to do nothing

Retiring English Professor Vincent Puma reflects on his Flagler career

Vincent Puma has done a lot for Flagler College over the last 36 years. He built the school’s composition program from scratch when he arrived in 1973, and he later established a peer writing center that’s grown from just two student tutors to more than 60.

Flagler Art Faculty in Naples Museum of Art exhibition

Two of Flagler’s art faculty members are part of a new Naples Museum of Art exhibit called “Florida Contemporary” that brings together 50 of the state’s photographers and painters.

Associate Professor Patrick Moser and Assistant Professor Sara Pedigo, both painters, were picked for the exhibition that showcases the rich variety of artists living and working in the state from realism to abstraction. The museum calls the show “an overview of the innovative images, subject matter and mediums that characterize the work being created in the state today.”

Jud Damon named athletic director

As teams get ready to begin play in the Peach Belt Conference, Flagler College has hired Jud Damon as its new athletic director. Damon had been athletic director at Georgia College and State University.

Damon has spent the last year at Georgia College in Milledgeville, and he served in the same capacity at the Savannah College of Art and Design from 2000-2008. He also served as the athletic director and head baseball coach at Trinity International University in Miami from 1997-2000.

Flagler gets a little greener

The Flagler College campus has seen a variety of environment-friendly changes recently, from a low-impact renovation of Kenan Hall to a student-run recycling program.

The recycling effort has been spearheaded by the Flagler Outdoors Club, which was founded by students two years ago. Melissa Kafel, a sociology major and president of the club, said recycling on a large scale can get surprisingly expensive.

Flagler joins Peach Belt Conference

It’s been three years in the making, but Flagler College finally has a conference for its athletic teams to call home. In December, the Peach Belt Conference announced that Flagler and the University of Montevallo had been accepted for membership in the league, which now totals 13 colleges and universities.

“I am thrilled that our college has been accepted for membership in the Peach Belt Conference, a well-established athletic conference with a solid record of competitive athletic programs at its member institutions,” said Flagler President Dr. William T. Abare Jr. “We are eager to compete against some of the top NCAA Division II programs in the nation.”

Adventures in the Andes

Spanish students learn through service in Peru

The trip is over and the bags are unpacked, but nine Flagler College students just can’t stop talking about Peru. This past summer, Assistant Professor of Spanish Aggie Johnson and her students travelled to Cusco, Peru – the former center of the Inca civilization – to learn, volunteer and see the sights. The group stayed with local families and attended classes at a center known for its research on the highland people.

Slideshow: Images from Peru

Worth a thousand words

Journalism student chronicles hidden cemetery in photo essay

In a secluded graveyard, simple labels like “mother” and “grandmother” peek out from slabs of cement, colored brightly with shades of pink and blue. Love is apparent there, as is the lack of money loved ones have to spend on deceased relatives.

But right next to the makeshift plots, separated only by a transparent fence, sits the pristine and modern Evergreen Cemetery. Visitors would have to move branches and step through weeds and overgrowth to get back to this “other” area, where the dates on the markers are as recent as 1990.

Audio Slideshow: Photo Essay by Haley Walker