Indigenous Awareness Week at New College was planned for the week of March 30 to April 5. The initial programming had been introduced in an email from the Student Event Team (SET) team on March 10 with an offer for students to attend a free…
Each year people from around the world submit powerful artwork in hopes of having it displayed in the Embracing Our Differences International Art & Quotation Exhibit located in Sarasota’s Bayfront Park. This year’s exhibition received 16,118 entries from 127 countries and all 50 states with…
Jessica Nabongo is an entrepreneur, travel blogger, brand influencer and self-proclaimed first Black woman to visit every country in the world. On March 3, she arrived in Sarasota to give a presentation organized by the SA[u]CE office and Center for Diversity and Inclusion at Ringling…
On Sunday, Feb. 23, students gathered in “Rural America,” the greens around the softball field, for a wholesome day of fun, sun and family-friendly recreation. “I have a vision for this Sunday afternoon at around 1 pm,” second-year Eliot Greene wrote on the forum the…
Over this past ISP, a group of dedicated students investigated the 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic in Philadelphia from an epidemiological, social and political perspective. Professor of Medical Humanities Tabea Cornel and Professor of Epidemiology Kristopher Fennie led the ISP with hopes to emphasize the importance…
As Jessie “Monkeyman” Moore’s elderly capuchin monkey sucked its wrinkly grey pinky toe without a care in the world, Moore somberly imparted that he is the last true organ grinder in the United States of America. It’s college night at the Florida State Fair, and…
First-year Aidan Monroe first heard of New College in middle school after finding an NCF t-shirt while helping his mother fold laundry. The average student may start to form opinions on colleges once they tour campuses, research SAT score requirements or take advice from counselors.…
Forty-eight years after her death on the farm-labor picket lines in Belle Glade, Fla., New College student activist Nan Freeman (‘71) was celebrated in a recent on-campus memorial event. The panel discussion and memorial service brought together students, professors and members of United Farm Workers…
photo courtesy of Amy Reid Reid’s second translated volume of a trilogy of political novels by Patrice Nganang, When the Plums are Ripe, is coming out this spring. Professor of French and Gender Studies Amy Reid has been teaching at New College since 1995. During…
For religion students at the New College of Florida and potentially all disciplines on the tightly-knit New College campus, the circle of professors you work with is small. Religion houses Professor Marks, Professor [Manu] Lopez-Zafra, Professor Michalson and Professor Langston. Douglas Langston is one…
