New College News

5th Year Antonia Ginsberg-Klemmt and Alumnus Orion Morton '17 are featured in a recent WEDU program, highlighting solutions and changes Gen Z is making to live eco-friendly.

Three days of events during The New College Challenge launch week brought hundreds of attendees to the New College of Florida campus. Students, faculty and staff (along with business, community and higher education leaders) engaged in community conversations about coastal, economic and social resilience from October 25 to 28.

On a picturesque slice of the Sarasota bayfront, the dream of founding a college that would be a hub for freethinking innovators came to life in 1960. New College of Florida was a grand experiment at the time.

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.

Jayne Gardiner, Ph.D.—an associate professor of biology and the director of the Pritzker Marine Biology Research Center at New College of Florida—has been named a rotating program director for the Biological Oceanography Program of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

When I first heard about New College of Florida, I was 2,210.1 miles away, in the mountain town of Prescott, Arizona, at Prescott College.