The Crisp-Ellert Art Museum will host experimental filmmaker Sky Hopinka as the CEAM Artist in Residence for Spring 2018. During his visit, Hopinka will work closely with Flagler College students and faculty through class visits and critiques, and will give a workshop for Flagler students. The museum will screen a selection of Hopinka’s short films, including “Dislocation Blues” (2017), “Anti-Objects” (2016), “I’ll Remember you as you Were, not What You’ll Become,” (2016) and “Visions of an Island,” (2016) on Feb. 12 at 6 p.m. in Kenan Hall on the Flagler campus, room 300. The screening, followed by a short Q & A, will be free and open to the public.

Flagler College’s Ideas and Images lecture series will host Andrew Nagorski, former senior editor of Newsweek International and former vice president and director of public policy for the East/West Institute on Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. Nagorski’s talk is titled “From the Soviet Union to Putin’s Russia” and will focus on Russia’s history, current actions and future prospects. Nagorksi’s talk will be presented in the Lewis Auditorium, at Flagler College, 14 Granada St.

Flagler College will celebrate the inauguration of Dr. Joseph G. Joyner as the fourth president of Flagler College with a week of community-focused events in February centered around the theme of “Citizenship in a Diverse Democracy.”

Flagler College will hold a public screening of the documentary "Dare Not Walk Alone" followed by a panel on the legacy of the civil rights movement on Jan. 28 at 5 p.m. in the Lewis Auditorium.

Flagler College and the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services will hold a Naturalization Ceremony on Feb. 21 in the Lewis Auditorium for approximately 50 individuals as part of the college’s Inaugural Week for new President Dr. Joseph G. Joyner.

Beginning Jan. 18 and running through Jan. 21, Flagler College will play host to the Saint Augustine Film Festival, featuring films from Syria, Georgia, Afghanistan, Poland, Estonia, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States, among others.

The Crisp-Ellert Art Museum and Flagler College are pleased to announce "A Tondo for Rajon Rondo," an exhibition of recent work by Jibade-Khalil Huffman, including video, photography and sculpture. The exhibition will kick off with an artist talk on Friday, Jan. 19 at 5 p.m. in the Gamache-Koger Theater in the Ringhaver Student Center on the Flagler campus, followed by an opening reception from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Flagler College’s Ideas and Images lecture series will host Dr. Laurie S. Stoff, Senior Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University, for a talk on “American Women and the Russian Revolution Then and Now” on Jan. 24 at 7 p.m. in the Flagler Room of Ponce de Leon Hall, 74 King St.

Now that her first semester at Flagler College is complete, Dr. Joanna M. T. Krajewski has found a balance between educating students on the world of strategic communication, and focusing her free time on her own personal research concerning sustainable practices.

A winner has been chosen from among 34 submissions from Flagler College Professor Natalie Stephenson’s design classes for a new food concept at the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum. Lauren Curtis’ torpedo design will be the logo for the Tin Pickle Local Gedunk, a snack counter in the newly restored World War II Garage, recently unveiled during the Museum’s Grand Opening in September. 

The Flagler College Honors Program is no longer without a home; students recently moved their operations to the Palm Cottage. A committee of Honors students moved into the Palm Cottage at the end of the 2017 fall semester.

Flagler College announced that it has awarded Melissa Southwell, associate professor of Natural Sciences, the 2018 Kahler Grant for her proposal “Shoreline Development and Coastal Hazards.”

Domenico Montanaro, NPR’s Lead Editor for Politics and Digital Audience, will give a talk on “The Golden Age of Grievance” at the Flagler College Forum on Government and Public Policy on Feb. 1 at 7 p.m. in the college’s Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada St.

Nicholas Johnston, one of the founding editors of online media company Axios, will speak at Flagler College’s Forum on Government and Public Policy on Thursday, Feb. 8, about the complexities of building a media company during the Trump presidency.

High school students from across the nation and our state will have the opportunity to learn about the academic disciplines of the humanities at Flagler College, specifically focused on St. Augustine, thanks to a $20,000 grant from the Florida Humanities Council.

Institutions earning the Military Friendly School designation were evaluated using both public data sources and responses from Victory Media’s proprietary survey. For the first time, student survey data was taken into consideration for the designation. More than 1,300 schools participated in the 2017-2018 survey with 849 receiving the designation.

Flagler College’s Women of Vision Advisory Board, which provides scholarships and opportunities for women who attend the college, welcomed six new members recently. They include Robin Borland, Letti Bozard, Araan Burnett, Lisa Chismark, Paula Fallon and Susan Joyner. 

Three students receiving diplomas at Flagler’s fall graduation ceremony represented a major milestone for the college: the first students to graduate from the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Master’s Program. The college’s first master’s program was launched in 2016 as a distance-learning program, and Mary Catherine Serfilippi, Miranda McMillan Slusser, and Olivia Grace Williams joined more than 180 undergraduate students for the commencement on Dec. 9.

Craig Gordon, Washington Bureau Chief for Bloomberg News, will give a talk on “Trumping Fake News: Facts in the Age of Trump” at the Flagler College Forum on Government and Public Policy on Jan. 16 at 7 p.m. in the college’s Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada St.

Flagler College handed out more than 180 diplomas on Saturday at its fall commencement ceremonies, including to the college’s first three graduates from the Deaf/Hard of Hearing master’s program.