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Eckerd College joins growing group of private colleges to offer pre-paid tuition

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Eckerd College is joining a group of 280 private colleges and universities nationwide in the Private College 529 Plan. The plan offers families a way to pay for college for their kids at today’s rates even if their child isn’t going off to college for quite some time. The plan is geared not only to avoid rising tuition, but also to avoid stock market volatility in safe savings plans. “This is a great deal for families seeking to guarantee a…

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New York Times columnist Charles Blow to speak at Eckerd College tonight

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New York Times columnist Charles Blow will speak in St. Petersburg at Eckerd College’s Fox Hall tonight at 7:30 p.m. Blow, 43, has been writing an op-ed column for The Times since 2008, and has been a leading voice over the past year in chronicling the “Black Lives Matter” movement, focusing on the deaths of blacks in the hands of law enforcement. Last year, Blow published his memoir, Fire Shut Up in My Bones. Michael Eric Dyson called it “an instant…

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Tom Kean says it’s still too early to count Chris Christie out

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Although Tom Kean has strong ties to the Bush family, he’s not about to endorse Jeb Bush for president – not this early, anyway. The former New Jersey governor, 80, is perhaps best known nationally as the co-chair of the 9/11 Commission, which was charged with providing the American people the fullest possible account of the facts and circumstances related to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. He was appointed to that commission by Jeb’s brother, George W. Bush. In…

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Former N.J. Gov. Thomas Kean to give commencement speech at Eckerd College

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Former GOP New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean will be speak at the Eckerd College Commencement on Sunday, May 17. Called “the courtly elder statesmen of New Jersey Republicanism,” by The Wall Street Journal, the 79-year-old Kean is perhaps best known nationally as being the co-chair (along with former Democratic U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton) of the 9/11 Commission Report, published in 2003. Kean served as governor in New Jersey from 1982-90. Like one of his successors, Christine Whitman, Kean is associated with that dying…

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St. Pete City Council awards Eckerd College for its role in finding Phoebe Jonchuck’s tiny body

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St. Pete City Council awarded the Eckerd College Search and Rescue team during its meeting Thursday for its involvement in recovering the body of 5-year-old Phoebe Jonchuck. The little girl was tragically thrown from the Dick Misener Bridge of the Sunshine Skyway early in the morning of January 8. Her father stopped at the top of the bridge and threw her over before an officer could approach his car for a traffic stop. The St. Pete Police Department immediately contacted…

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Deveron Gibbons joins Charlie Crist in leaving Republican Party

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Former St. Petersburg, Florida, mayoral candidate Deveron Gibbons spoke with a political science class at Eckerd College on Wednesday night and revealed that he was no longer a registered Republican. He was the guest speaker that the instructor invited to talk with the class about lobbying. At one point during the class, the floor was open to questions. One student commented on his own perception that Gibbons was a moderate among a very conservative Republican Party in Florida. The student then…

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