Senior Associate Dean for Student Affairs Mark Stier announced on Feb. 4 that, based on national COVID-19 vaccine deployment, New College administration was anticipating a return to “normal operations” by fall 2021. While several details are still up in the air, the Fall 2021 housing…
Ever since campus shut down in March 2020, health education at New College has been focused on COVID-19. Health Education Coordinator Susan Stahley said that her first few months at NCF since she arrived in Sept. 2020 have been spent trying to advertise and navigate…
This February has seen a series of virtual lectures, screenings and volunteer events in honor of Black History Month, including the “Health Disparities and Creative Intervention” lecture on Feb. 9, showcasing the work of the Multicultural Health Institute (MHI). In a discussion run by founder…
The COVID-19 pandemic has cost students much of their college experience over the past year. More than students’ classroom environments or living situations, COVID-19 has also changed how students are able to socialize on campus. This fall students attempted to find compromise between long-standing traditions…
The ACE academic plaza used to be full of classes, but due to COVID ACE hasn't seen the same amount of students. With the fall semester finally drawing to a close, mid-semester progress reports indicated that students have faced significant academic struggles due to isolation…
A photo of Zelznak's room in Pei, where they quarantined for two weeks. On Tuesday, Oct. 13, third-year Jessica Edmonds was in the middle of an online class at her parent’s home in Tallahassee when her roommate, thesis student Jacob Lough, called. Edmonds waited until…
The COVID-19 liaison's are paid and will look to improve communication of COVID-19 information on-campus. On Oct. 5, New College Student Alliance (NCSA) President and Catalyst co-Copy Editor Sofia Lombardi sent a weekly update to the student email list saying that she, Dean of Student…
The walkway (the dark path on the map) would create a direct connection to the airport. The Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport (SRQ) has been the next-door neighbor of New College’s Pei Campus since 1961, when the land many on-campus students now live on was first leased.…
If a student does not fill out a break form, housing will assume the student will be leaving for Thanksgiving break and will secure their room. Between this year’s move-in process, which phased students in over the course of a week to avoid overcrowding, and…
Photos Courtesy of "The Ringling, Tibbals Circus Collection." Barnum & Bailey, Miss Katie Sandwina, 1912 This August marked the 100 year anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which officially granted women’s right to vote. While the suffrage movement is widely associated with figures such…
