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U.S. News Ranks NCF in Top Ten for Graduate School Success
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 New College of Florida ranks ninth in the United States for the percentage of students who go on to graduate programs within a year of graduation.
U.S. News & World Report published the finding online Jan 2. in its ongoing series The Short List, which explores the data collected for its annual Best Colleges issue.
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Re-release: Wall Street Journal Ranks NCF among Nation's Best
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Which colleges and universities send the most students to elite grad schools like Yale Medical School, Harvard Law and the Wharton School of Business? That's the question The Wall  Street Journal asked in a special one-time-only look at the country's top undergraduate schools and their success in graduate school placement. The article was called "Want to Go to Harvard Law," and it appeared in the September 26, 2003, Weekend Edition of the Journal. After all the number-crunching was done, the Journal found that New College of Florida, the state's Honors College for the Liberal Arts and Sciences, produces one of the nation's highest per-capita percentages of graduates bound for premier law, business, and medical schools. Read More |
YeVette Thornton Named Director of Human Resources
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YeVette M. Thornton has been promoted to Director of Human Resources, effective Dec. 23, 2012. She has served as the department's interim director since August 2012 and joined the department as associate director in 2007. "YeVette is an experienced professional who brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to this position," said John Martin, vice president for finance and administration. "She is, without question, well prepared and ready to lead our HR Department."
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Party Networks in American Politics
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January 9 at 2 p.m.
Academic Center, Room 201
Richard Skinner, candidate for assistant professor of political science at New College, will give the talk "Party Networks in American Politics." The lecture is free and open to the public. Call 941-487-4888 for more information.
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Chasing Florida's Fossil Seashells
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January 10 at 4 p.m.
Pritzker Marine Biology Research Center, 381 College Drive
Free and open to the public; no reservations necessary
Call 941-487-4888 for more information Ron Bopp of Shell Club will give a screen presentation of why, where and how to easily find and enjoy the most common occurring Florida mollusk, the fossil shell. Although new to this hobby, Bopp has passionately collected and displayed shells and has won many ribbons and awards at several area shell shows. He is a semi-retired obstetrician/gynecologist and lives with his wife, Mary Jo, in Bradenton.
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New Topics New College, "Positive Aging Pioneers"
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January 15 at 5:30 p.m.
Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
Tickets $15; free for New College students, faculty and staff Reserve online at donate.ncf.edu/events or call 941-487-4888
 The Institute for the Ages has an ambitious vision: To be the world's largest and most significant change agent for positive aging. Institute for the Ages President and CEO Tom Esselman will provide the community with an update on how individuals and community groups within Sarasota as well as innovators around the world are focused on the global aging phenomenon. Esselman will discuss groundbreaking research initiatives and the development and applications of products, services and policies that are improving our lives as we live to be older and older.
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New Music New College, "Psychoanalysis, Gender and Jazz"
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January 18 at 11 a.m.
College Hall Dining Room, 351 College Drive
This discussion with pianist and psychotherapist Marilyn Lerner is co-sponsored by the New College Gender Studies Program and is open to New College students, faculty and staff only. Visit newmusicnewcollege.org or call 941-487-4888 for more information.
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New Music New College, Artist Conversation with Marilyn Lerner
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January 18 at 3:30 p.m.
Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
 Free and open to the public; no reservations necessary Visit newmusicnewcollege.org or call 941-487-4888 for more information. This free Artist Conversation with pianist Marilyn Lerner and New Music New College Director Stephen Miles precedes Lerner's performance, Dreamwork, on Saturday, January 19.
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New Music New College, Marilyn Lerner, Dreamwork
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January 19 at 8 p.m.
Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
Tickets $15; $5 for non-NCF students; free for New College faculty, staff and students
Reserve online at donate.ncf.edu/events or call 941-487-4888 newmusicnewcollege.org  Widely recorded and internationally renowned, Marilyn Lerner's work speaks to improvisation, not just as an approach to music making, but as a way of life, a mode of being that is accessible to all of us in our daily lives. Her groundbreaking recordings have garnered much recognition, including her two solo recordings, Luminance and Romanian Fantasy, as well as Special Angel with Sonny Greenwich. Her intimate knowledge of the piano, combined with a fearless experimental and passionate spirit, render her a true original. Lerner's work spans the worlds of jazz, creative improvisation, klezmer and 20th-century classical music. She composes for film, theater, radio and television. She is also an audio artist and has created a series of soundscapes using samples of sounds she collects in the natural environment.
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Klingenstein Lecture, "The Essentially Ambiguous Jewess"
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January 22 at 7 p.m.
Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
 Free; reserve online at donate.ncf.edu/klingenstein or call 941-487-488 Cynthia M. Baker, author of Rebuilding the House of Israel: Architectures of Gender in Jewish Antiquity, will give the talk "The Essentially Ambiguous Jewess: Exploring Images of Jewish Women through the Centuries." Drawing on art and literature from the distant to the recent past, this talk will illuminate ways in which Jewish women have been imagined--and have imagined themselves--as significant points of contact between their own and other cultures. Baker is associate professor of Religious Studies at Bates College. Click here for a complete calendar listing of events
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