Natalie Catasús (‘07) is the new Assistant Director of the Writing Resource Center (WRC). She is responsible for the WRC website, the training and hiring of Student Writing Assistants (SWA) and informative presentations on the WRC and writing processes. In her last two years at…
photo courtesy of David Berry A poster for the latest Ringling Underground event on March 1. The Ringling Museum of Art will be hosting a new way to experience art in a party-like atmosphere, geared towards college students. Ringling Underground: An Art After 5 Experience…
Search “the history of income distribution in economics” and Google will serve up links with hard facts on inequality, growth, and tax policy. Any recent theories on income distribution, however, have been locked away in the academic dog house since the mid-twentieth century--until now. Once…
all photos courtesy of the Girl Scouts of Gulf Coast Florida According to the Clearwater/Tampa Bay Area Task Force on Human Trafficking, there are 27 million humans in slavery worldwide. In the United States, Florida is ranked third in prevalence of labor and sex slavery,…
Cassandra Corrado/Catalyst The center's new main office area. The Center for Career Education’s (CCE) has refocused its attention toward graduate program preparation, local job searches, resume building and internships. At the beginning of the spring semester the Center for Career Education (CCE) moved out of Palmer…
On Feb. 21, local radio station WSLR hosted the second section of its media education film series, Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising’s Image of Women. Afterwards, a group discussion was led in part by New College Professor of Sociology Emily Fairchild. Killing Us Softly 4…
Since the ACE Building debuted in August of last year, one area of the building has remained vastly unoccupied. The original plan was to make what has now come to be known as the ACE Lounge into a student café, complete with “cooking equipment, ovens,…
“I have never been a big Martin Luther King fan,” bell hooks said during a discussion about the late civil rights leader. “I was more of a Malcolm X type girl.” hooks, New College’s Distinguished Visiting Scholar, talked with students and the Sarasota community on…
Taylor Meredith/Catalyst The SMOA's newest banners boast reaching past the halfway point of its fundraising goal. The Sarasota Museum of Art (SMOA) is designed to be a modern contemporary art museum that will be housed in the historic campus of Sarasota High School. The $22…
photo courtesy of ncf.edu Dedicated on Jan. 6, the new lab has been in the process since 2001. Here, Dr. Sendova works with a student. The largest federal grant in New College history was awarded to create a lab for studying bite-sized matter. The Optical…
