If you smoke, you may be breathing less easily on college campuses these days.
Looking for the designated smoking area at Florida International University? There is none.
Want to light a cigarette inside your car at the University of Florida? Don’t let the cops see you.
Hoping to smoke during your break at Nova Southeastern University? You have six months left until NSU becomes the latest college to go tobacco-free. Come July 1, the covered smoking benches will come down and smoke-free-campus signs will go up.
“Although we’d like people to quit, we’re not saying you have to. You just can’t smoke here,” said Tom Vitucci, NSU’s director of campus recreation and leader of the smoke-free effort.
College campuses are becoming less tolerant of smokers, replacing tobacco restrictions with outright bans, even while in your car. Violators face discipline ranging from warnings to expulsion or termination in extreme cases. Most will just be told to extingish their cigarettes, Nova officials said.
That was a somewhat surprising take-away from a survey unveiled today on attitudes about education — and especially IPS.
The survey was commissioned by Stand for Children, the local affiliate of a national group that advocates for school reform.
MORE COVERAGE: PDF: Stand for Children Marion County results summary. MORE COVERAGE: PDF: Presentation of Stand for Children Marion County results.
a difference that was within the survey’s margin of error.
“That is surprising,” said David Dresslar, executive director of the Center of Excellence in Leadership of Learning at the University of Indianapolis. “This either means there is a general level of dissatisfaction that pervades IPS and township districts, or that the level of dissatisfaction in IPS isn’t as great as was anticipated.”
Karega Rausch, the Indianapolis director of Stand for Children, thinks it’s the former.
“We all have work to do, at least that’s what we’re hearing from the voices of our residents in the county,” Rausch said.
Accepted: First, can you tell us a little about yourself – where are you from? What and where did you study as an undergraduate and when did you graduate?
Kelly: I was born in Beijing and spent my teenage years in Chicago and Singapore before returning to the USA again for college. I went to University of Washington in Seattle and graduated with a Business-Information System degree. Prior to my MBA, I worked as a technology audit manager for Expedia, Inc, the world’s largest online travel company.
Accepted: Why did you decide to attend INSEAD? Why did you choose the Singapore campus over those in Fontainebleau or Abu Dhabi?
Kelly: INSEAD was my #1 choice since the beginning as it represents all the factors I sought for in an MBA program: Ranking and reputation (#5 in the world by Bloomberg), one year program, outstanding professors, global perspective and diversity, strong international focus and recruitment outlook, and last but definitely not least – a school that promises an intense, challenging and fun-filled fast-life.
I chose Asia because interestingly, though I am Asian by ethnicity, it is the region that I have the least professional exposure to. I hav
Parents seeking spots for their children in the Palm Beach County School District’s choice program are seeing a few changes this year as the Dec. 16 application deadline looms.
One is fewer choices. Students can apply for entry only into two programs this year, down from three.
Also, the district is taking aim at what it calls school shopping, where parents apply to programs just to keep students out of their home school.
Students whose home school offers a choice program in a particular field of study, such as medical arts, cannot make a similar program at another school their first choice, said Barbara Terembes, director of the School Choice and Career Options program.
It’s a way to try to keep kids at their home school, Terembes said. The choice program is supposed to be about the program, not applying just to move.
With the deadline still nearly two weeks away, m ore than 10,000 students have applied for new seats in choice programs, Terembes said.
By last year’s application deadline, 17,466 students applied for choice seats and the district was able to place about 9,800 of them in programs, Terembes said.
That marked a decrease from the roughly 10,700 students who were able to find new seats the year before.