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Fleming Talks Assistive Technology at Annual Media Accessibility Conference

December 14, 2018

Dr. James Fleming was a featured speaker last month at the Association of Higher Education and Disability’s 21st annual Accessing Higher Ground Conference in Colorado leading a session on accessible technology and learning disabilities.

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Student Ambassadors Put Beacon’s Best Foot Forward in Collegiate Outreach

December 13, 2018

Student ambassadors Kendall Augustine and Lianne Smith assist guests a recent Beacon Salon Speaker Series event.

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Visiting Educators Learn the Beacon Way during Two-Day Fly-in Program

November 30, 2018

Nearly 100 educational professionals from 24 states descended on Beacon College this week to learn more about the school and its pedagogical strategies during the college’s “Professional 2-Day Fly-in” session.

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Beacon History Professor Selected for Prestigious Museum Seminar in D.C.

November 30, 2018

Beacon College historian Dr. Christopher Huff will return to Washington, DC in January to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for a faculty seminar exploring how Nazis also targeted the disabled for genocide.

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Beacon President Delivers State of the College Address

November 9, 2018

Beacon College President George Hagerty in October discussed the continued growth of the college campus-wise and programmatically in his annual State of the College address during Parents Weekend.

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Beacon Anthrozoologist to Judge Prestigious National Science Clash

October 30, 2018

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College Honors Couple Who Helped Author Writing Success for Students

October 10, 2018

The Beacon College community Saturday saluted a pair of benefactors and celebrated their generous legacy — one that each year writes new chapters of success — during the dedication of the Robert & Jane Weiner Writing Center.

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Runners Finish for Fun, Fitness, Philanthropy in Annual 5K Run

October 10, 2018

Beacon College students and staffers' fingerprints were all over the Third Annual Beacon College 5K Run or Walk Saturday as two students finished first and second and a Beacon staffer was a top-three female finisher.

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Beacon College Names 2018-19 ICUF Presidential Fellows

October 1, 2018

Beacon College will send two motivated students to Tallahassee next year as part of the statewide ICUF Presidential Fellows program to educate legislators about the school and to lobby them to maintain a critical state-sponsored scholarship for private schools.

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Durand Park Opens with Touching Ceremony

August 20, 2018

Beacon College officials dedicated the Virginia and Robert Durand Garden in a ceremony Friday at the new downtown pocket park.

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New Director Takes Reins at Center for Student Success

July 3, 2018

Sheryl Nichols recently was appointed the new director of the Center for Student Success at Beacon College.

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Beacon College Invests in Entrepreneurs with Disability Chamber Partnership

June 12, 2018

Beacon College has forged a partnership with the Central Florida Disability Chamber of Commerce in support of twin entrepreneurship programs for veterans and for high school students with unique abilities, school officials recently announced.