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On Jan. 18 the Flagler College Office of Diversity and Inclusion will partner with the Dr. Martin Luther King Celebration Committee of St. Johns County, Inc. to host the 36th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Breakfast event.

This month Flagler College students participated in a day of community service for the fifth year of the college’s community service efforts called Reach Out Raise Up.

This month, Kenan Distinguished Professor of History and Director of the African-American Studies minor J. Michael Butler will deliver a lecture to his Rock and Roll History class titled, “From Civil Rights to Black Power in Rock.” The difference won’t be its virtual delivery for the first time in Butler’s teaching career, but the broadcasting of the class by C-SPAN.

The 2020 Flagler College/W.W. Gay Mechanical Contractor President’s Classic Golf Tournament was held Nov. 6 at the World Golf Village’s King & Bear Golf Course. The event raised $74,550, which helps support athletics scholarships.

The week-long programming is an opportunity to celebrate the many benefits of international study and cultural exchange. The week is officially slated to start Monday, Nov. 16 and go through Friday, Nov. 20. However, events on campus begin this week with “Culture Convo: Elections” which will be a group discussion with specially invited guests including Professor and Mayor of St. Augustine Tracy Upchurch.

President Joseph G. Joyner has announced that he plans to retire at the end of the 2020-21 academic year. “On behalf of the entire Board of Trustees, I want to thank President Joyner for his exceptional service to the College over the last three and a half years,” said Rick Groux, chair of the Flagler College Board of Trustees. “As the leader of our beloved institution, we’ve witnessed significant forward movement since 2017.”

New student organization F-STEAM is gaining steam on campus despite the pandemic. President and founder Kyle Clarke recently announced the new academic club on radio show and podcast Flagler Footnotes with host Tonya Creamer. The acronym stands for Flagler College Science, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Arts and Mathematics. The club’s advisor is Professor and Dean of the School of Business, Education and Mathematics Kurt Sebastian.

On Election Night, Tuesday, Nov. 3, Associate Professor of Political Science and Dean of Academic Life Art Vanden Houten will appear on Action News Jax to lend insight on the election during the station’s live election night coverage. Vanden Houten has already appeared once this election season and will again appear the morning after the election for analysis and breakdown of results.

Some Flagler alums are seizing the moment we’re in to start their passion projects, businesses and nonprofits. We’ve asked a few of them to share about various aspects of their journey.

Beginning on Oct. 6, the Office of Institutional Advancement hosted the LEAD Fund “Putting for a Cause” event at the Royal St. Augustine putting greens. The event unfolded over a period of three days and raised scholarship funds for future Flagler students. Elite Putters Club co-hosted.

On Sept. 16, the Office of Institutional Advancement hosted a hybrid model meeting to introduce Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences Melissa Southwell, along with other science faculty, to the new Science Advisory Board. Those in attendance included representatives from Northrop Grumman, NASA, Gwanda, Bayfront Marine, LAN Associates, Carter Environmental Services, North Florida Land Trust and St. Johns River Water Management District, as well as a tech company, dentist, radiologists and environmental consultants.

The Flagler College Department of Visual and Performing Arts presents “The Wolves” on Oct. 29 and 30 at 7:30 p.m. The fall production is being live-streamed. “Admission” is $10 on the college’s ticketing site at tickets.flagler.edu.

The WFCF Endowment Fund was established to supplement the budgetary needs of WFCF Flagler College Radio 88.5FM “Radio with a reason.”

The Crisp-Ellert Art Museum (CEAM) and Flagler College welcome Elisa Harkins to the CEAM Artist Residency Nov. 9 – 21. As a part of her residency, Harkins will travel to St. Augustine along with her collaborator, the musician and activist Marcus “Quese IMC” Frejo, and both will engage with campus and the community in a variety of ways. Harkins will give a virtual performance on Thursday, Nov. 12 at 5 p.m., and Quese IMC will perform virtually on Tuesday, Nov. 17 at 1 p.m. Both of these events, co-hosted by the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Art at Florida International University in Miami, are free and open to the public.

Flagler College Archives and Special Collections, along with the Lightner Museum present “Meet the Collections and Curators: Our Remembrance of the 75th Anniversary of World War Two” on Friday, November 6, 2020 from 1-7 p.m. at the Lightner Museum.

Local group Historic St. Augustine Research Institute (HSARI) recently awarded their annual William L. Proctor award of $1,000 to Dr. Susan Parker for her work “Oldest City: the History of Saint Augustine” (St. Augustine Historical Society, 2019) for its engaging fundamental survey work on St. Augustine’s story. HSARI hosts this juried award competition for writing focused in the areas of history, archaeology and historic architecture related to St. Augustine.

The Crisp-Ellert Art Museum (CEAM) and Flagler College welcome Sasha Wortzel as the CEAM Artist-in-Residence from Oct. 5-15, rescheduled from last spring. During her visit she will engage with Flagler College students, faculty, staff, and the St. Augustine community through virtual class visits and visits to local historical sites.

Flagler College honored its highest achieving students from the Spring 2020 academic semester with mailed certificates of achievement and a special letter. Both Dean’s List and President’s List were recognized; President’s List is the highest recognition awarding those who’ve achieved a 4.0 grade point average with at least 12 hours of graded credit.

The Flagler Office of Business Services started a project in 2017 to begin implementing safety measures in high-traffic areas of campus, which includes the addition of two pedestrian crosswalk signs with blinking light indicators.

In conjunction with our current exhibition "The Nameless Now: NEFL Artists Respond," on view from Sept. 4 through Oct. 24, 2020, the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum will co-host a panel discussion with Flagler College’s Black Student Association on Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 5 p.m. in Flagler College’s Auditorium. The in-person portion of the event is limited to Flagler College students, staff, and faculty, while a virtual attendance option is available for everyone.