With a baby on the way, classes to teach and students to mentor, Assistant Professor of Glass Brian Frus had to get creative after being offered a plum commission by Hobnob restaurant, a soon-to-open heavy-hitter in the quest to make …
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Entrepreneurship project a ‘win-win-win’ for students, JU and Arlington businesses
Entrepreneurship students are teaming up with local small business owners to help spur their companies’ growth as part of a Davis College of Business course described as a “win-win-win” for JU, its students and Arlington.
Under the guidance of Prof. …
Read More »Sport Business students get a behind-the-scenes look at the Florida Cup
A select group of JU students and faculty recently got an insider’s view of both the athletic and business sides of the Florida Cup held at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports in Orlando. an annual event that features an international …
Read More »Business/English standout Ellis Harr named citizen member of Times-Union editorial board
International Business/English double major Ellis Harr, a Presidential Student Ambassador who also heads Sigma Chi fraternity on campus, will bring his voice to The Florida Times-Union Editorial Board this semester as a citizen member, the newspaper announced.
The five members …
Read More »Professional rebirth: artists rekindle their passions in MFA in Visual Arts program
Duval County Public Schools art teacher Joi Hosker had a quandary: She wanted to teach full-time at a university someday, but didn’t want to leave her job to advance her education.
Enter Jacksonville University’s Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in …
Read More »Attack of the $13 Trillion Monster: Professor Richard Cebula explores the “new normal” of deficit spending
Illustrations by Cleo Brock ’16
Throughout most of U.S. history, the nation’s biggest budget deficits have come in times of war. From the Revolutionary War through Vietnam, armed conflict has ballooned the nation’s budgets and borrowing. But when the fighting …
Read More »Civil, robust debate as Public Policy Institute hosts third of mayor’s town halls on emotional LGBT rights issue
With impassioned views on both sides over whether the city’s anti-discrimination laws should be expanded to cover lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, the Jacksonville University Public Policy Institute did its job well Tuesday, Dec. 15, hosting respectful discussion on …
Read More »Public Policy Institute wraps up banner year
The Jacksonville University Public Policy Institute finishes an extraordinary year of progress in 2015, with substantive political debates, a much-cited inaugural GOP primary poll, important lectures, the conferring of the first MPP degrees in the history of Florida, and more. …
Read More »EPIC’s ‘Collaborate JU’ harnesses interdisciplinary learning to prepare students for real world
Strong mix of Davis College of Business students honored on 2015 Top 40 Talent list
From Sport Business majors gaining coveted internships with the Jacksonville Jaguars to Aviation Management students setting up foreign exchange programs for JU in Taipei to Consumer Goods & Services Marketing MBA candidates breaking gender barriers in the supply chain industry, …
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