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Center celebrates religions
Event returns to campus after 13 years
Religious groups from all walks of life will be discussing issues, educating students about their doctrines and hosting church services during the University of North Florida's Religious Awareness
Week Oct. 22-28.
The event, sponsored by the Interfaith Center, is a weeklong opportunity to educate the student body about the different
religious factions on campus, said Angela Davis, office manager of the Interfaith Center.
The mission of the center is to care for the individual and to lead, educate and advocate the expression of religious faith and core values.
"We're doing really good at the caring, leading, and advocating, but we thought we should have more focus on education,"
Davis said.
Throughout the week, faculty members, student groups, and members of the Jacksonville community will be speaking about controversial issues in religion like homosexuality.
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Student advocacy group pushes for uniform statewide grading policy
All state universities follow different grading scales
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Students across Florida are questioning the lack of a statewide grading policy for colleges and universities.
Currently, each of the 11 public universities in the State University System has its own grading scale.
The Florida Student Association, a lobbying organization, is working to address student concern by meeting with SUS officials to discuss possible remedies for the situation.
"It's an issue that's very much on our radar," said Mike Fischer, director of the FSA.
Fischer said students brought this issue to the FSA last year and were concerned about the fact that an A from one institution does not necessarily equate to an A at another institution.
Fischer said FSA is in the process of meeting with different university administrators, the Board of Governors, and SUS Chancellor Mark Rosenburg to determine each entity's possible issues or objections against creating a universal grading policy.
"Faculty at a lot of schools don't want to change their grading scales, but we're in the very preliminary stages of approaching the SUS to see what our
options are about changing the grading scale," Fischer said.
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