Faculty scholarship and activities
Mark FensterProfessor
- Sept. 16, 2009, The Alligator
Fenster shed light on a proposed waiver that would make student government records available to the public. Fenster said he thinks the waiver is an unnecessary step because he does not believe Student Senate records are similar to the educational records FERPA was initially designed to protect. "The everyday records of a student-run organization -- one that is setting policy and spending student fee money -- is a far cry from the grades and punishments meted out to individual students," he wrote in an e-mail. In Senate, students act as executives or public officials, not students, Fenster said. He said FERPA could apply to SG officials if an official committed an offense in his or her SG work but was given a student punishment, such as suspension. "When those two things begin to merge, when something they did as an official of Student Government allows them to be punished as a student, then I think you're back into FERPA territory," Fenster said.
Joseph LittleProfessor
- Sept. 10, 2009, Pensacola News Journal
Little provides a perspective into the motivation of parents to maintain its school prayer despite court orders. This is why, despite 50 years worth of court cases and U.S. Supreme Court decisions, the argument persists, said Joe Little. “These are people who are deeply invested and deem this to be deeply important,” he said in a telephone interview Thursday. “I think it’s deeply important. Maybe each little skirmish is not, but the ongoing balance is.” Little said these battles bring together communities, like Pace, where residents believe their very way of life and their culture are threatened by outside forces. “There is no question that decisions such as these and disputes such as these that change long-standing practices do forever change the character and the role of the school in the community,” he said.
Timothy McLendon
Legal Skills Professor
- Sept. 11, 2009, Treasure Coast News
McLendon provided insight into historic home preservation as an author of “Economic Impaces of Historic Preservation in Florida.” The argument that the old house is hurting property values is not a sound one, said Timothy McLendon, an attorney and researcher at the Center for Governmental Responsibility at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. He and other researchers from Rutgers University produced a report “Economic Impacts of Historic Preservation in Florida.” “The study was done for whole neighborhoods,” said McLendon, “but has some applications to the situation you have in Stuart. Generally, we found that historic preservation increased, not decreased surrounding property values.”
Elizabeth Rowe
Professor
- Jack Wessel Excellence Award, Office of the Provost
Rowe was one of the 11 faculty members who received the Jack Wessel Excellence Award in spring 2009. The award focuses on junior faculty and recognizes excellence in research. Each award is a one-time allocation of $5,000 in support of research that can be used to fund travel, equipment, books, graduate students, and other research-related expenses.
Daniel Sokol
Assistant Professor
- Presented “A Comparative Analysis of Antitrust Law Regimes: Designing Better Institutions for Deciding Antitrust Issues” at Loyola University Chicago School of Law Friday, Sept. 11, 2009.
