Colleges That Change Lives

New College of Florida students in the Forest Ecology Lab class have joined students and researchers worldwide in a project to gather data about the global carbon cycle. And, they’re using an inexpensive and novel tool to gather the data: tea bags.
The project, called the Tea Bag Index (www.teatime4science.org), began at the University of Utrecht, in The Netherlands, in 2010, where researchers came up with a cheap and easy method to measure the decay rate of plant material. The results can help...

This year, during Orientation, New College replaced the longstanding Common Read, a book assigned over the summer, with the Common Challenge — an issue that students would discuss and eventually address as part of their introduction to the college.
One group tackled the issue of food insecurity, looking into the causes of modern-day hunger — often from personal experience — such as low wages making quality food unaffordable; the persistence of “food deserts;” the proliferation of fast food, sometimes...

LexisNexis, which uses Big Data to assess and mitigate risks for its clients, is one of several companies that embed New College’s Data Science students into their workplaces where they apply critical thinking and technical skills to solve real-world...

As one of many ways it supports first-generation college students, NCF’s Center for Career Engagement and Opportunity (CEO) hosted a First-Generation College Student Recognition Day. Current first-generation students as well as faculty and staff who...