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For the second year in a row, Flagler College was awarded the Gold Level Award for 2023 Healthiest Companies by the First Coast Worksite Wellness Council (FCWWC) for creating a culture of health and wellness within the organization.

Purchasing life insurance was the right decision for alum and retired Flagler employee Dan Stewart ‘78 and his wife Mary Ellen (Crotty) ’79 when their three children were young. But as the Stewarts reached their 60s, it was time to re-evaluate.

Elaina Wahl-Temple, Resident Designer and Adjunct Professor, has been at Flagler College for 14 years. She has designed costumes for more than 45 productions. In addition to teaching, Wahl-Temple is an award-winning director and choreographer.

Convocation ceremonies are a long-standing tradition among collegiate institutions meant to mark students’ entrance into higher education and welcome them into their new academic communities.

Ranked No. 2 Best Regional College in the South by U.S. News and World Report, named among “The Best Colleges for Your Money" by Money Magazine, and consistently featured in the media as one of the world’s most beautiful campuses- there are many reasons why you should go to Flagler College. But there are also several very valid reasons why you shouldn’t go to Flagler College in the summery city of St. Augustine.

This was a summer of expanded potential for the College. Major renovations came to fruition, and the whole campus community experienced numerous changes. One crucial element of this growth includes the group of talented faculty and staff Flagler has hired to join the College.

This summer, K—12 music teachers from across Florida, the Carolinas, and Tennessee gathered on Flagler’s campus to attend the Summer Music Education Institute.

Summer Hoppenworth, ’16, returned to Flagler College as a full-time employee in September of 2022 after working in the St. Johns County School District as a K-8 Teacher Librarian.

The bond between a professor and student is something Flagler College values as an element of transformative education, and it was something that defined Annabelle Lassiter’s experience as a Saint.

Flagler College is honored to receive a $1.25 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to support The Missing Voices Project. This grant ensures the continuation of its vital work in giving support and voice to young people in faith-based communities who typically find themselves marginalized by society and the church.

Flagler College is an institution that fosters intellectual, social, and personal transformation for its students, where young minds are encouraged to seek knowledge in pursuit of a life well-lived.

Joy Agboola came to Flagler College with confidence in her aspirations for life, two of which include founding a tech company and running her own gym.

A new pathway for global academic exchange was formalized this week as Flagler College signed a memorandum of understanding with Germany’s Ansbach University of Applied Sciences.

Within Flagler’s Crisp-Ellert Art Museum (CEAM), an avant-garde film festival has emerged to showcase experimental short films from a growing network of professional artists and student creators alike.

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Flagler College will celebrate the academic and personal accomplishments of more than 450 graduates at the Class of 2023 Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, May 6.

Michella Basas ‘00, returned to Flagler in 2014 as an assistant professor in Deaf Education and is now the Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning. She lives on a small family farm with her husband, father, and small human where they care for their 20 hens, two roosters, holland lop, corn snake, goldfish, two barn cats, and the most ridiculous labradoodle that ever lived. She said she also looks forward to having some horses and maybe a goat in the future.

Before he arrived at Flagler College, sophomore Peter Mankin said he was worried his adjustment from high school to college would be especially difficult.

More than 2,000 donors contributed to Flagler College’s fifth annual Roar and Raise Giving Challenge this past March 29-30, raising a record-breaking $1,124,643 in support of students, faculty, staff, and historic facilities. To date, it is the College’s most successful fundraising effort ever and will propel the school into a new era of philanthropy and education.

Paula Holanchock, assistant professor of Business Administration and director of the Social Entrepreneurship Program, encourages socially and environmentally conscious entrepreneurs and business leaders to consider a circular economic approach that embraces the triple bottom line. She inspires compassionate, regenerative, and responsible leaders to create prosperous and inclusive ‘life economies’ through spiritual decision-making and conscious leaders for systems change, regeneration, and organizational renewal.