Flagler News

For some alumni, Flagler College is more than the place where they earned their degree. It is where they met the person who would become their partner for life.

When Carl Florez learned that Flagler College’s School of Business was exploring the launch of a student-run record label, the idea struck a deeply personal chord. More than an academic initiative, the project resonated with his lifelong passion for music and his love for his late son, Mike.

For some alumni, college is a chapter that closes at graduation. For Jerry Provin ’91, Flagler College has remained a place of memory and meaningful attachment.

The Arctic Circle is an unlikely setting for the typical Flagler College story. For alumna Claire Mortensen ’19, it became the place where her education translated into hands-on research contributing to global climate science and policy.

Students in Dr. Lisa Van Zwoll’s FlagSHIP course, Visual Storytelling, Reality TV, and Memoir, spent the JanTerm grappling with questions that sit at the core of reality media culture: where truth lives in storytelling, who shapes it, and what happens when lived experience becomes content.