Other Research & Instructional Units
Center for Academic & Professional Development
Director: William H. Lindner; Associate Director: Kerry McElroy
The Florida State University Center for Academic and Professional Development (CAPD) is the continuing education and academic program outreach entity for the campus, the community, and students of all ages everywhere. Housed in the Augustus B. Turnbull III Florida State Conference Center, the experienced staff of CAPD support a variety of learning opportunities as they provide services to colleges, departments, and students on campus and online. CAPD can be reached online at https://learningforlife.fsu.edu.
CAPD promotes lifelong learning and personal productivity enhancement. For example:
Professional Development/Personal Enrichment. CAPD offers self-paced Professional Certification in Trauma and Resilience, Professional Certification in Human Trafficking Prevention and Intervention, College Student Wellbeing, Trauma and Resilience, and the Certificate in Financial Planning. These courses are instructor-led and offer an online interactive experience.
Test Prep Classes. CAPD also offers online and face-to-face courses in Test Prep for the GMAT, GRE, LSAT, and SAT.
Academic Credit. CAPD provides academic credit courses, including part-time degree and certificate programs for the non-traditional student. Courses are offered on campus and at a distance. Special courses and teacher institutes are held each summer. CAPD also coordinates returning student scholarships for students twenty-three years of age or older.
CAPD continues to identify and develop new course offerings to support lifelong learners in their quest for personal enrichment and sustain successful careers.
CAPD's team can assist you with your training needs, web-capturing your lessons, creating a custom web page with a unique URL to link to your training and/or convert your web-captured materials to short videos with specific learning objectives.
The Center's professional staff of meeting planners is readily available to put their expertise to work helping you organize events. For more information, please visit https://learningforlife.fsu.edu/fsu-conference-center-2.
The Florida State Conference Center
The Augustus B. Turnbull III Florida State Conference Center, located at 555 West Pensacola St., is adjacent to FSU's five-story St. Augustine parking garage. The Conference Center is approximately 47,000 square feet, featuring a gothic brick exterior and three floors to house a large auditorium, a 336-seat dining room, eight breakout rooms, an executive boardroom, food preparation facilities, and administrative offices. It employs the latest technology, including three video walls, LCD screens and live Webcasting in its conferencing rooms, and is capable of hosting anything from small meetings to large regional conferences. The Conference Center also has a full service studio outfitted with industry standard equipment and capability, including teleprompting and Webcasting.
Campus Reimagined Initiative
Director: William H. Lindner
The Florida State University Campus Reimagined Initiative (CRI), established in 2018, is committed to facilitating the future success and exceptional student experiences on our destination campus. Housed in the Augustus Turnbull III Florida State Conference Center, the experienced team of CRI supports a variety of cross-functional, future-oriented, technologically enhanced initiatives. The CRI mission is to create a living and learning environment, built on a data-informed, technology-centric platform, where students can seek and acquire the knowledge they need to discover, develop, and fulfill their personal aspirations.
The initiative's goals are:
Create a campus ecosystem that supports each individual student's unique living and learning experience.
Give students real-time access to the specific campus information they need, exactly when they need it.
Deliver information in a mode and format that best fits the individual student's communication and learning preference.
Whenever possible, design the components to be self-populating, self-regulating, and self-funding.
Center For Global Engagement
See the “International Education” chapter in this General Bulletin.
Center For Intensive English Studies
See the “International Education” chapter in this General Bulletin.
FSU International Programs
See the “International Education” chapter in this General Bulletin.
Florida Center For Reading Research
Director: Nicole Patton Terry
The Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) is a multidisciplinary research center at Florida State University that was established in 2002 by the Governor's office and the Florida Legislature. FCRR explores all aspects of reading research—basic research into literacy-related skills for typically developing readers and those who struggle, studies of effective prevention and intervention, and psychometric work on formative and summative assessments. For more information on the Florida Center for Reading research visit http://fcrr.org.
The Florida Center for Public Management
Director: Linda Jimenez-Lopez
The Florida Center for Public Management (FCPM) was established in 1978 to provide assistance to elected leaders and public managers in state and local governments in Florida. Its staff of full-time, experienced management consultants is available to help these officials improve their operations through a variety of services, including executive development seminars, organizational improvement diagnoses, leadership and staff team-building workshops, and various problem-solving techniques. FCPM efforts include the Florida Certified Public Manager Program, a nationally recognized comprehensive training and development program for public sector managers. FCPM is a part of the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy.
To obtain further information about FCPM and its services, visit https://www.fcpm.fsu.edu or call (850) 644-6460.
Florida State University – Republic of Panama
Rector: Carlos R. Langoni
Florida State University's Office of International Programs administers a permanent campus of approximately 450 full-time students in the Republic of Panama. FSU-Panama offers a full program of courses at the lower-division level leading to the associate degree, undergraduate courses leading to the baccalaureate degree in selected majors, and graduate courses leading to the master's degree in International Affairs. The campus serves U.S. citizens and residents in Panama, Panamanian citizens, and visiting scholars from through-out the world. Courses are taught by regular and adjunct faculty as well as rotating faculty from the Tallahassee campus; students from the Tallahassee campus also study at FSU-Panama, taking advantage of the resources of Panama and the ease of receiving full academic credit from the University. Internships are arranged for Tallahassee students majoring in fields ranging from biology to international business. A full range of facilities is offered at the FSU-Panama campus, including housing, an athletic complex, a library, technology-enhanced classrooms, laboratories, administrative offices, and student center. The campus is located in Clayton – the City of Knowledge – across from the Miraflores Locks of the Panama Canal and a few miles from the center of Panama City, the nation's capital.
FSU-Panama also offers additional courses and cultural activities of special interest to U.S. students who seek study-abroad opportunities, either for one semester or for a full year. It also offers continuing education opportunities as well as English as a Second Language instruction through the Professional Development Program and the FSU Panama English Program, respectively. For further information, please consult the campus' website, https://panama.fsu.edu, write to the International Programs office at A5500 University Center, call (850) 644-3272, or visit https://www.international.fsu.edu.
Institute for Cognitive Sciences
Director: Michael Kaschak
The institute was founded in 1984 for the encouragement of interdisciplinary research, communication, and graduate study in the cognitive sciences. Its members include faculty and graduate students from the fields of computer science, psychology, philosophy, linguistics, education, business, and physics. Research has involved computer modeling of memory and problem solving, artificial and computational intelligence, knowledge-based computer systems, fuzzy logic and soft computing (e.g., genetic algorithms and neural networks), computer diagnosis of novice difficulties in problem solving, similarities and differences between human and lower-animal cognition, cultural aspects of cognition and language, linguistics and cognition, formal and natural languages, philosophy of knowledge and cognition, philosophy of artificial intelligence, study of the brain, robotics, education, and vision. Recently, research into cognitive aspects of the management of technology and of the perception of its affordability/cost has been included. A specialized studies program is offered for graduate study in cognitive sciences.
Learning Systems Institute
Director: Rabieh Razzouk Associate Director for Research: Stephanie Zuilkowski
The Learning Systems Institute (LSI) is at the forefront of developing innovative education and human performance solutions that bridge theory and practice. For 54 years, LSI has provided innovative work in 47 countries while delivering systems that measurably im-prove the learning and performance of organizations and individuals. A leader in multidimensional education projects and capacity building for reforming and strengthening educational systems, LSI faculty and staff have extensive experience successfully implementing educational programs in Florida, the United States, and worldwide. LSI has also built a strong record of managing multi-million-dollar research and service projects, generating more than $760 million in externally funded research over its five-decade history.
Internationally, LSI has overseen more than 50 projects. Many of these international projects aim to improve primary, secondary, and tertiary education and support educational reforms that call for pre- and in-service teacher education, curriculum, and materials development for all these levels, including technical and vocational training for workforce development. Organizations such as the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Department of State, UNICEF, CARE International, and various non-governmental organizations have entrusted LSI with research and development work, as have government agencies in Indonesia, Ethiopia, the Philippines, India, Ukraine, South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Pakistan, Tuvalu, nations in Latin America, and elsewhere.
Another focus at LSI is the Florida Center for Research in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (FCR–STEM), awarded to Florida State University in 2007. It is operated by LSI faculty and staff. The mission of FCR-STEM is to help the State of Florida im-prove STEM teaching and learning in grades K-12 and prepare students for higher education and STEM careers in the 21st century. Among FCR-STEM's significant accomplishments are the impacts of professional development on teacher and student outcomes, the de-sign and delivery of intensive professional development for over 40,000 K-12 math and science teachers in Florida and serving instructional resources to millions of educators and students.
LSI's expertise in STEM education, teacher training, policy and standards, literacy, instructional design and curriculum development, education technology, higher education capacity building, inclusive education, and research, monitoring, and evaluation is driven by top researchers from multiple departments at FSU and leading institutions globally.
To obtain further information about LSI, contact the Learning Systems Institute, 4600 UCC, Tallahassee, FL 32306-2540, or call (850) 644-2570. LSI's website may be accessed at https://lsi.fsu.edu.
FSU Early Childhood Autism Program – Panama City Campus
Program Director: Emily (Nikki) Dickens
Unique to the Panama City Campus, the FSU Early Childhood Autism Program (ECAP) is a non-profit, community outreach program that provides home, school, and clinic-based Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy for clients diagnosed with developmental disabilities, including autism spectrum disorder. The primary mission of ECAP is to provide effective, evidence-based behavioral treatment for clients and the secondary mission is to provide supervised clinical training to Florida State University graduate students as part of their practicum with the ABA Master's Program at FSU Panama City. Service provided by ECAP include but are not limited to:
Individualized skill and behavioral assessments
Development and implementation of behavior treatment plans focusing on increasing important behaviors (e.g. language, social, and communicative skills) and decreasing problematic behaviors
Parent consultation and training
Direct 1:1 therapy and teaching with clients
ECAP graduate students conduct services under the supervision of doctorate and master's level board certified behavior analysts who hold national certification with the behavior analyst certification board. For more information about ECAP visit https://pc.fsu.edu/ecap or call (850) 770-2241.
L.L. Schendel Speech & Hearing Clinic
Director of Clinical Education: Tricia Montgomery
The dual mission of the speech and hearing clinic is to provide effective community service to improve the communication abilities of clients, and to provide a teaching and clinical research laboratory to develop exemplary assessment and treatment procedures for use by Florida State University students in speech-language pathology. Specific services include but are not limited to:
Comprehensive speech-language assessment and intervention
Hearing assessment, hearing aid dispensing, and other clinical services related to hearing impairment
Assistive communication lab
Dialect/Accent evaluation and reduction
Services are provided by graduate students under the direct supervision of faculty members. All professional staff members are licensed by the Florida Board of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology and certified by the American Speech Language Hearing Association.
Fees vary according to the nature of services. Students, faculty, and staff receive a reduced rate. Further information is available by calling: (850) 644-2238 (Voice and TDD).
Museum of Fine Arts
Curator: Meredith Lynn
Located in Tallahassee, MoFA has a history of exciting projects – from lush painting to dynamic sculpture exhibitions, from challenging installations to provocative photography shows. Every season begins with an international competitive exhibition that embraces all media and every semester closes with the youth and exuberance of the graduating artist exhibitions.
The Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts is a member of Florida Association of Museums, Florida Art Museum Directors' Association, Florida Cultural Action Alliance, Southeastern Museums' Conference and is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.
Naval Science
The Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) program at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) is open to both men and women of Florida State University through the FAMU–FSU Cooperative Program. The NROTC Program at FAMU is administered by the NROTC staff. This program affords the opportunity for selected men and women to receive instruction in naval science courses, which, in conjunction with a baccalaureate degree, will qualify them for a commission in the United States Navy or the United States Marine Corps. Students enrolled in the University who are physically qualified, and who are United States citizens, are eligible to apply for the NROTC program.
The FAMU NROTC Unit offers five programs: (1) the Navy–Marine Corps College Program (non-scholarship); (2) the four-year Navy–Marine Corps Scholarship Program; (3) the two-year NROTC College Program; and (4) the two-year Scholarship Program. Navy-Marine Corps College Program students are eligible to compete for available Naval Education and Training Command (NETC) scholarships any time after one semester of participation in the program. Selection is based on academic achievement, physical fitness, and military aptitude. Scholarships include full tuition, lab fees, and a textbook allowance of $375.00 per semester. Additionally, a stipend of $250.00 (freshmen), $300.00 (sophomores), $350.00 (juniors), or $400.00 (seniors) is paid per month to help defray the cost of living expenses. Navy–Marine Corps College Program students, if selected for advanced standing in their junior or senior year, receive a $350.00 and $400.00 per month stipend, respectively.
The NROTC Unit is located in the Perry-Paige Building on the FAMU campus. For additional information, visit http://www.famu.edu/index.cfm?navyrotc.
Written requests for information should be addressed to: Recruiting Officer, NROTC Unit, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, P.O. Box 6508, Tallahassee, FL 32314-6508; or call either (850) 599-8412 or (850) 599-3980; or e-mail nrotc@famu.edu.
Reserve Officers Training Corps
The University includes among its offerings both an Air Force and an Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program; students of Florida State University may apply for admission to the Navy ROTC Program offered through Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU). Interested male or female freshmen and sophomores are encouraged to enroll and apply for a Navy or Marine Corps scholarship. Naval Science classes are listed in the FAMU General Catalog under “Division of Naval Sciences.” The Air Force ROTC program is offered to students at FSU, FAMU, TCC, and the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University extension campus at TCC. The classes are listed in this General Bulletin under “Aerospace Studies.” For additional information, visit https://airforcerotc.fsu.edu/, call (850) 644-3461, or stop by 212 Harpe-Johnson Hall. The Army ROTC Program is offered to FSU and TCC students. The classes are listed in this General Bulletin under “Military Science.” For additional information, visit https://armyrotc.fsu.edu/, call (850) 644-8806, or visit in person at 201 Harpe-Johnson Hall.
Seminole Productions
FSU's professional video production unit, Seminole Productions, housed in the College of Communication and Information, provides a variety of services to University departments. One major partner is the Florida State Athletics department. Seminole Productions produces over 120 live events and over seventy-five television shows every year for Athletics alone. In addition, Seminole Productions has partnered with ESPN and Fox Sports to produce numerous live events and special television programming for their networks. Seminole Productions is also a leader in Stereoscopic (3D) production and programming. Mark Rodin and his team of professionals have been working in stereoscopic technology for over ten years, outpacing universities across the nation in this medium. FSU students have the opportunity to learn from industry professionals, working with state-of-the-art equipment on real world projects, as part of their coursework. Everything Seminole Productions staff does is on a professional level for real paying clients. This ensures students are ready to meet the challenges of real world production after graduation. So whether it is working on live events, television shows, in pre- or post-production, graphics and animation, or even 3D stereoscopic production, students have numerous opportunities to become involved in Seminole Productions.