New College News

New College Foundation has received a strategic partnership grant from the Community Foundation of Sarasota County to support the College’s 43rd Annual Clambake. The event raises funds for student scholarships.

Cultivating his legal prowess was a skill Michael Reese ’88 learned at New College of Florida, and the experience has served him for decades as a successful lawyer. So, in early September, Reese decided to pay it forward, donating $50,000 to his alma mater’s Law Society.

Looking for fresh ideas and new talent? New College of Florida’s Community-Driven Internship Program is sponsoring a select number of nonprofit organizations and government agencies in Sarasota and Manatee counties to hire interns this spring. The deadline to submit internship project proposals is September 30.

Students at New College of Florida are known to vote, to an award-winning degree, in local and national elections. And Washington Monthly has taken notice this year, naming the state’s designated honors college to its “2022 Best Colleges for Student Voting Honor Roll.”

Want to learn more about the latest technologies and trends in sustainable home building? Join us at the IDS Environmental Design Conference: Green Building, Healthy Lives!, Sept. 22 and 23, at the Harry Sudakoff Conference Center, New College of Florida, 5845 General Dougher Place, Sarasota.

Sustainability nonprofit Southface Sarasota lost its base of operations recently when the lease on the Florida House green demonstration home and gardens ended and was not renewed. But, when that door closed, another opened at New College of Florida.

To encourage young girls to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields, New College and Girls Inc. launched the Eureka! Program in Summer 2021.

This summer, New College of Florida hosted two programs for local middle and high school students from June 6 to 17 on campus.

Studying French in Senegal this fall will be a dream realized for New College of Florida third-year Michael Bolesh, who was just selected to be a Boren scholar.

Below is the entirety of Maxeme Tuchman’s 2022 commencement speech, given at New College of Florida on Fri. May 20 on the College Hall bayfront.