Colleges and Universities

Orange Bowl's Fate Riles Facebookers

Being Straight Edge in Drug-laced College Culture

Florida Student Loan Subpoenas

Last Night: Guster at the Culture Room

Donna Shalala Won't Be Your Drinking Buddy

McCane, How Punny

Stonewalled

FIU's first gay-rights group finds disciples of Anita Bryant alive and well on campus

Crossing the Bar

When Dade's Chamber of Commerce considered backing FIU instead of FAMU in the fight for a new state law school, they figured it would be a walk in the park

Mustang Sally

How to turn your trivia knowledge into fabulous prizes

UM Addresses The Impact of Econ Crisis

Nothing is immune to the economic crisis, not even the palm tree'd oasis in Coral Gables known as the University of Miami. After many alumnus expressed their concern, president Donna Shalala sent out a letter to all alum today addressing the impact on UM. Here's the highlights: UM has made a lot of ... More >>

Building Block

The state Board of Regents isn't standing between FIU and an accredited architecture school - Mitch Maidique is.

The Young and the Restless

The state Board of Regents isn't standing between FIU and an accredited architecture school - Mitch Maidique is.

Get Some Time Alone

Experimental filmmaker Chris Kraus speaks at MoCA.

University of Miami Returns to Playboy's Top Party School Glory

via Wikimedia CommonsUniversity of Miami used to be a "Top Party Schools" mainstay back in the 80's, coming in at #2 on Playboy's first 1987 list, but with a rise on academic lists came a fall on the party lists. UM didn't even make Playboy's list last year (the top spot went to University of Florid ... More >>

Pay off Your Loans

Gabe Pendas wants to save college kids a bundle. And this brawler might just do it.

Shane & Shane and Bebo Norman

Gabe Pendas wants to save college kids a bundle. And this brawler might just do it.

Catwalkin’ Babes

Cheer on the sisters as they strut, pivot, and turn

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Stomp the Yard

Tin Chefs

The disconnect between a culinary student's white-collar dreams and the restaurant world's blue-collar reality

Mad Hampster

The disconnect between a culinary student's white-collar dreams and the restaurant world's blue-collar reality

The Song is You

It's up to the Voice to bring the religions together

BEST REASON NOT TO GO TO COCOWALK

The parking garage

FIU, too! All right?

Why Mitch Maidique and Armando Codina hate Amendment 11

Poor Miami: Enough Whining

Got a clever idea for snuffing out local poverty? Let's hear it!

Punt

That's what UM administrators did rather than answer questions about athletes and academics

End Run

The second time a professor caught him cheating, UM football star Andre Johnson seemed to be in deep trouble. That's when home-field advantage kicked in.

The Battle of the Barry Bulge

As the university grows and grows, it has hit some of its neighbors

Letters from the Issue of December 20, 2001

The Sunny Side of the Bleat: C'mon, guys, put on a happy face!

Fear and Loathing in la Escuela

President Eduardo Padron has instituted an impressive program of intimidation at Miami-Dade Community College

Gridiron Fever

FIU administrators think spending millions on a football program will do wonders for their school, and they'll sideline anyone who disagrees

Best Place To Rollerblade

FIU University Park Campus

Schoolyard Bully

Metro-Dade Community College president Eduardo Padron has won a reputation as a take-charge leader -- and an intellectual thug

The Music Man

Forget River City; there are problems aplenty at the New World School of the Arts, where members of the music faculty have declared war on their boss

How to Succeed in Education Without Really Studying

Superintendent Roger Cuevas and a few dozen of his top administrators received graduate degrees from diploma mills. No wonder Dade's schools are in such great shape.

Degrees of Ineptitude

If the City of Miami would check, as we did, they'd find an administrator without the proper credentials

The Graduate

After ten years as city manager, Cesar Odio is still catching flak about his college education. Give the guy a break. Better yet, give him a diploma.

A Case of Date Rape

After ten years as city manager, Cesar Odio is still catching flak about his college education. Give the guy a break. Better yet, give him a diploma.

From Animal House to Bleak House

-- dry rush. No hazing. And you need to pull a permit to throw a decent party. It's enough to make a UM Greek hurl.

Sex & Cars & Rock & Roll

I entered the Rolling Stone Rock & Roll Bowl on a whim. How'd I do? Just call me Johnny Ca$h.

Does the State University System Have a Problem with Lady Power?

UWF President Judith Bence and USF President Judy Genshaft: Exceptions to an unwritten rule? Do Florida's public universities have a reluctance to put women on top? On one side, you could point out that only two of the 11 schools in the system have a female president. On the other hand, you co ... More >>

At Florida Memorial University, surviving assaults is part of the curriculum

UWF President Judith Bence and USF President Judy Genshaft: Exceptions to an unwritten rule? Do Florida's public universities have a reluctance to put women on top? On one side, you could point out that only two of the 11 schools in the system have a female president. On the other hand, you co ... More >>

Not Just a Pretty Face

UWF President Judith Bence and USF President Judy Genshaft: Exceptions to an unwritten rule? Do Florida's public universities have a reluctance to put women on top? On one side, you could point out that only two of the 11 schools in the system have a female president. On the other hand, you co ... More >>

R.I.P. Francisco Aguabella, Afro-Cuban Jazz Great

​ Francisco Aguabella left Cuba in the 1950's and quickly established himself as a master conguero and bata musician in the American and nascent Afro-Cuban jazz scenes. Noted for his fluidity and energy, he was a sought-after performer who shared the stage with musicians as varied as Frank Sinatr ... More >>

Florida Schools Rank Low on Forbes Best Colleges List

​In US News and World Report's rankings of America's best colleges, the state of Florida boast two schools in the top 50: University of Florida and University of Miami. Forbes is now in the college ranking business too, and the rankings for the schools in Florida strike as a bit weird. Only o ... More >>

Kendrick Meek, Undocumented Students Rally at Miami-Dade College In Favor of DREAM Act

​Standing before a row of undocumented Miami-Dade College students downtown this morning, Senate hopeful Kendrick Meek urged Congress to pass a long-debated bill that would give college graduates and military members a quick path to full citizenship. Democrats plan to attach the DREAM Act to a def ... More >>

Guns at College? Father of Girl Shot at FSU Frat House Doesn't Think So

​Ashley Cowie, a sophomore at Florida State University, was shot and killed last month after an AK-47 accidentally went off at a party at a property housing fraternity brothers. Clearly, firearms and college parties don't mix well, but a bill introduced last month would allow students at Florida ... More >>

Daryl Gardener, Former Dolphin, Arrested at UCF Sorority House After Fight With Girlfriend

​The arrest of former Miami Dolphin Daryl Gardener has it all: cougars, accusations of cheating, sorority houses, cologne bottles, and a club called Fubar.The 38-year-old former defensive tackle was arrested early Tuesday morning in front of the University of Central Florida's Zeta Tau Alpha house ... More >>

Florida Lost 115,000 Jobs to China Between 2001 and 2010

​It's not news that Americans love buying cheap Chinese-made goods, but the disparity between how much we import from China and how much we export to the country has resulted in about 2.8 million American jobs being displaced to China between 2001 and 2010. Florida has been particularly hard hit, ... More >>

FAMU Is Not Penn State: Hazing Should Not Kill A Storied Program

Alex Izaguirre​Luther Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Campbell comes to the defense of Florida's largest historically African-American university, which has been caug ... More >>

Former 'Cane Jeffrey Brown Takes Plea Deal in Sexual Assault Case

​Jeffrey Brown, a 19-year-old former redshirt freshman defensive lineman with the Miami Hurricanes, has accepted a plea deal in a case involving his alleged rape of a female University of Miami student in a dorm room. As part of the deal Brown will face no prison time and will not have a felon ... More >>