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Florida State College at Jacksonville’s Original Shero: Professor Mildred Barnert

Posted on January 27, 2023 | Leave a comment

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At first, Professor Barnert’s protest was tame. Florida Junior College had fired her, but wouldn’t say why. Faculty had no tenure, no union. After Barnert’s “sleep-in” made the front page of The Jacksonville Journal, male administrators rated her looks and belittled her. Though she loved her students, she didn’t need the job. She protested “on principle” and won rights for those who followed.

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From Mini-Museum to Big-House: The Art of Richard McMahan

Posted on October 19, 2018 | Leave a comment

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Richard McMahan’s intensity does not waver. Whether it’s the thousands of miniatures he’s created of Van Goghs, Frida Kahlos, Picassos and duChamps, or it’s the prison stories and illustrations, the collection of shackles and prison uniforms, Richard’s work is obsessive.

courtesy Community Foundation of Northeast Florida & laird/blac palm inc

Everything Richard does forms part of a life’s-work. His Mini-Museum offers a survey of the world’s great art, while his Big-House project asks “the biggest question[s] of all.”

photo by James Hunter

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Florida Junior College, What the Beginning Looks Like, the Chance to Create a New World

Posted on March 10, 2018 | Leave a comment

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“It was not a frivolous time. We felt like we were doing something really important. You couldn’t help but feel that way.”

In idealistic camaraderie, they built a new curriculum and course outlines from scratch, socialized until late in the night, and discussed what books their students should read.

Erstwhile underground bomb shelters opened up. In one building “down toward Park Street,” FJC headquartered its Experimental College.

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Tagged A College Tells Its Story, Arnold Wood, Betsy Griffey, Charles Smires, Cumberland Campus, Edgar Napier, Erskine Key, Experimental College, FCCJ, FJC, Fred Kent, FSCJ, J. Bruce Wilson, Jennifer Grey, Jewell Haddock Blackburn, Kent Campus, Robert Gentry, SACS, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, UNF, University of North Florida, Vivian Payne

Hansontown Lies Beneath FSCJ’s Downtown Campus

Posted on October 7, 2017 | Leave a comment

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Hansontown lies beneath Florida State College at Jacksonville’s Downtown Campus, figuratively and, in part, literally.

When Florida Junior College consolidated its downtown locations into the new Downtown Campus in the late 1970s, it eliminated the last of Hansontown, a century-old neighborhood built for freed slaves and former U.S. Colored Troops.

Some FSCJ leaders now espouse views on urbanism much like those the college abandoned by building Downtown Campus.

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