Flagler News

Ahead of the highly-anticipated St. Augustine Spanish Food & Wine Festival, we talked with Shaun Wright, the wine expert for Friday night’s Cava Reception and Dinner.

Flagler College is pleased to announce its continued partnership with the St. Augustine Spanish Food and Wine Festival, as a host for this one-of-a-kind cultural celebration in the nation’s oldest city from Feb. 23-25, 2023.

Most students only get the chance to live in Ponce Hall for one or two years during their time at Flagler, but Trustee and donor Rick Groux was lucky enough to spend the entirety of his college experience living there.

A 2014 Coastal Environmental Science trip to Bermuda was the catalyst for a young working relationship between Flagler and Bermuda College that was made official through the signing of an articulation agreement last month.

Students in Flagler’s Hospitality and Tourism Management (HTM) Program have the advantage of studying in a city and state with markedly robust tourism industries. The backdrop of St. Augustine’s tourism industry is a built-in training ground for HTM students and Flagler is less than 100 miles from another hotspot of Florida tourism- Orlando. On a recent excursion from campus, HTM students had the opportunity to visit Universal Orlando Resort and learn about what it takes to run such a high-level tourism venture.

Dr. Kathy Deagan sees the future of Flagler’s archaeology program as promising- brimming with potential and the enthusiasm of our students. “I have always thought that Flagler College should be one of the premier training grounds for undergraduate archeologists,” she said.

Flagler College’s Leading, Empowering, Advancing, and Developing (LEAD) Fund is excited to host its third annual Spirits and Sportscars fundraising event Thursday Sep. 22, 2022 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Art N’ Motion vintage showroom, 283 San Marco Ave. St Augustine, Fla.

Maya Angelou once famously stated that “people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” This is exactly what comes to mind when Ronnie Nichols ’97 and Rachel Wootten ’98 think of Delores Rutledge Love, a former Dining-Hall employee at Flagler College.