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By Kerrin Murray News Editor   President Timothy Flanagan held the final All University Meeting of the year to inform faculty, staff and students of the school’s “strategic plan overarching goals.” The last time the university developed a strategic plan was in 2008. Flanagan said that plan was improved upon in order to make the [...]

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By Karin Radock News Editor   SGA senators attended this year’s annual State House Day to advocate for the support and funding of Massachusetts public higher education on Monday, April 23. FSU’s Student Trustee Kendra Sampson explained that State House Day allows Massachusetts’ state universities to come together and provide state “senators and representatives with [...]

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By Kerrin Murray News Editor   Students, faculty and staff gathered in DPAC to recognize the achievements of the class of 2012 at this year’s Senior Investiture ceremony on Monday, April 23. Jesse Fennelly, ’04, communications director at the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, presented this year’s Investiture Address. He began his speech by offering his congratulations [...]

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By Spencer Buell Editor-in-Chief   A lecture from psychologist and author Howard Gardner on May 16 will mark the conclusion of President Timothy Flangan’s first-ever Distinguished Lecture Series. Flanagan said Gardner’s book “Five Minds for the Future” served as “a productive guiding principle” for the series, which featured talks from five thinkers, nominated to appear [...]

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By Zack Comeau Editorial Staff Starting this fall, a new program will take the place of Arts and Humanities, called Arts and Ideas. According to Linda Vaden-Goad, the academic vice president, the series was renamed because she and the committee in charge of the program “wanted to give it a broader reach across all academic [...]

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Jennifer Hand Staff Writer FSU administrators increased the percentage of full-time faculty members this year. Despite the rise in part-time faculty members working in universities around the nation, FSU is moving in the opposite direction. From academic year 2010-11 to 2011-12, the percentage of full-time faculty members at FSU has risen from 75.9 to 76.3 [...]

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By Kathleen McDonough News Editor This semester, the FSU sociology department piloted its first-ever nonprofit giving course, which culminated in a ceremony awarding two local nonprofits a $2,500 gift each. The course, taught by Ira Silver, FSU sociology professor, and Susan Nicholl, MetroWest Nonprofit Network chair, was part of the Future Philanthropists program funded by [...]

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By Zach Comeau Editorial Staff Starting this fall, a new scholarship honoring Matthew Denice, ’11, will be available to students from Milford High School who attend FSU. On Aug. 20, Denice was riding his motorcycle home around 8 p.m. before an intoxicated illegal immigrant ran a stop sign and struck Denice, killing him. According to [...]

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By Zach Comeau Editorial Staff FSU Campus Police Chief Brad Medeiros said he hoped the Board of Trustees would vote to approve the arming of campus police later this spring at a campus forum on April 18. After the forum, President Timothy Flanagan said he supports the proposal. “My responsibility as president is to recommend [...]

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By Zach Comeau Editorial Staff By Heather Waxman Staff Writer   Recent college graduates face an uphill battle for steady employment in the current economy, according a May 2011 survey by Rutgers University. The survey, “Unfulfilled Expectations: Recent College Graduates Struggle in a Troubled Economy,” gathered information on college graduates from 2006 through 2010. According [...]

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