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FSU, TMH sign agreement to build new academic health center in Tallahassee
FSU, TMH sign agreement to build new academic health center in Tallahassee
Florida State University and Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare recently signed a memorandum of understanding to seal their partnership for a future academic health center in Tallahassee, slated to open in fall 2026.
Through the agreement, a new “FSU Health TMH Trustees” will oversee decisions related to the academic health center and a medical campus underway in Panama City Beach on behalf of the university and hospital.
The joint center’s governance structure will consist of five voting trustees appointed by FSU, including President Richard McCullough, who will serve as chair of the board; four additional voting trustees appointed by TMH, with TMH President and CEO Mark O’Bryant as a nonvoting member, and a vice provost for FSU Health as another nonvoting member.
The memorandum of understanding, or MOU, “is an important step in solidifying our relationship with TMH and establishing the basic operating and governance structure for our partnership as part of the FSU Health initiative,” McCullough said in a prepared statement.
FSU secured $125 million from the Florida Legislature and Gov. Ron DeSantis two years ago to build the health center, which will be a five-story building of up to 130,000 square feet.
The state-of-the-art facility — to be located on the northeast sector of TMH’s campus off Centerville Road — is expected to help FSU and TMH work toward their main goal of transforming the future of health care across the region during a time where North Florida continues to face a crucial shortage of professionals in the field.
FSU and TMH’s long-term partnership also consists of other initiatives such as the establishment of residency programs for psychiatry, internal medicine and general surgery.
“TMH has been working toward this goal of partnering with FSU to create an academic health center for almost 15 years,” O’Bryant said in a release. “This is a monumental step forward in our relationship, and I’m incredibly excited and proud of the work our teams have done.”
In addition, FSU and TMH will explore combining all the Tallahassee-based residency programs under a single Graduate Medical Education office with guidance from the board and will also develop Centers of Excellence in various clinical areas.
For the flow of funds, FSU will be responsible for the funding of education while TMH will spearhead the funding of clinical programs and services, according to the signed agreement.
FSU YearBooks (1900-1903)
https://www.on3.com/boards/threads/realignment-redemption-raiders-of-the-lost-acc.723540/page-2068
Ever see the yearbooks from that period?
1900-1901: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSUYB_1900_1901
1901-1902: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSUYB_1901_1902
1903: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSUYB_1903
You should all look at the thousands of FSU athletics photos on nolefan.org. As well as the stats and box scores for every game or match ever played for all our sports and the individual stats and photos for over 11,000 former Seminole athletes from 1947 thru today.
nolefan.org.
It is a goal of mine to have nolefan.org linked to Seminoles.com. Everyone at FSU Athletics uses this site as the veritible bible for researching and writing about FSU teams and athletes.
it was created and is maintained by without any compensation by the most important volunteer in FSU Athletics history, Hall of Famer and Moore-Stone Award winner, Bob Peronne. He spends 2-3 hour each day updating it.
Doak Campbell Stadium Renovation
Doak Campbell Stadium and Dunlap Football Center Progress from Seminole Boosters Inc. on Vimeo.
Dunlap Champions Club Renovation Information from Seminole Boost
Want to learn more about the @FSUFootball stadium renovation? Watch the video below ⬇️
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How will FSU stadium experience change in 2024 amid renovations? Expect 24,000 fewer seats
Construction is well underway at the stadium. Renovations are set to continue leading into the 2024 season and should be completed before the start of the 2025 season ahead of the Seminoles' opener against Alabama.
Alford admitted the construction will have an impact on the 2024 season. Capacity is likely to be capped at around 55,000, down from the sell-out capacity of 79,560 in 2023.
In 2025, Alford said he anticipates the maximum capacity to be back in the upper-60,000s, lower-70,000s range. But the experience for the fans should be improved, even with a lower capacity.
While an exact capacity has not been established yet, Alford said in a Board of Trustees Meeting on Feb. 1 that he expected the capacity of the stadium to be in the upper 50,000 range.
That likely makes FSU football game tickets more premium than they have been in past seasons. There will also be constant construction going on around the stadium, meaning gameday traffic will also be different than in seasons past.
Alford said the premium club seats are almost 75% sold out already and they are starting to develop a waitlist for people.
While FSU will have a reduced capacity even when the construction and renovations are fully done in 2025, there is an upside to it: More room at your seat.
All of it leads to a better fan experience, according to FSU.
"Right now your tread depth is 27 inches, meaning your knees are in the back of the person in front of you," Zierden said. "Then when we go through and even the bleachers that we put back there will be brand new bleachers, not the same bleachers that are out there now, a 33-inch tread depth.
Alford said the premium club seats are almost 75% sold out already and they are starting to develop a waitlist for people.
While FSU will have a reduced capacity even when the construction and renovations are fully done in 2025, there is an upside to it: More room at your seat.
All of it leads to a better fan experience, according to FSU.
"Right now your tread depth is 27 inches, meaning your knees are in the back of the person in front of you," Zierden said. "Then when we go through and even the bleachers that we put back there will be brand new bleachers, not the same bleachers that are out there now, a 33-inch tread depth.
Rumble & tumble at #Doak @FSUFootball @SeminoleBooster #progress pic.twitter.com/bd8EL0ppyO
— Hugh Tomlinson (@Hugh__Tomlinson) February 15, 2024
Saturday, May 25, 2024
FSU-led project has potential to transform regional economy
The @floridatriumph board of directors has endorsed a record-setting grant award of $98.4 million to @FloridaState for its planned InSPIRE project, subject to agreement on terms. Learn more: https://t.co/nmxTrPXOoo
— 850 Business Mag (@850BizMag) May 23, 2024
📸: @mikefender
https://www.850businessmagazine.com/manufacturing-opportunities/
About the time that the Bay County Economic Development Alliance, working with The St. Joe Company, succeeded in bringing GKN Aerospace to Panama City Beach, Dr. John Holdnak, then president of Gulf Coast State College and Glen McDonald, its current president, floated an idea.
Holdnak and McDonald believed that an advanced manufacturing research and development center might serve as a complement to businesses like GKN. In addition, they believed it could be a difference-making jobs generator and a meaningful factor in the region’s economic development and, thus, a strong candidate for a grant from Triumph Gulf Coast. They viewed Florida State University, given its status as a Tier 1 research university, as the ideal candidate to apply for such funding.
Back then in 2017, the timing wasn’t right for FSU, recalled Bay County EDA president Becca Hardin. But circumstances would change, and Dr. Richard McCullough — a chemist, entrepreneur and a man with a passion for R&D — would succeed John Thrasher as FSU’s president.
Six years later, the Bay County EDA was working to win over electric air taxi manufacturer Joby Aviation, which was seeking a site for a 2,000-job plant, when the Holdnak/McDonald idea resurfaced. This time, it gained traction, Hardin said, and resources for preparing a funding proposal were dedicated to it.
McCullough was among 15 representatives of FSU who traveled from Tallahassee to DeFuniak Springs last November for a meeting of the Triumph Gulf Coast board. Agenda items included an application from FSU for $100 million for a “collaborative center for manufacturing and aerospace technology.” The project has come to be known as InSPIRE, the Institute for Strategic Partnerships, Innovation, Research and Education.
Hardin has worked with Triumph and its board chair David Bear on varied proposals but told him regarding InSPIRE, “You’ve seen some impressive projects but nothing like this. This one is truly transformational.”
The board responded by voting to support InSPIRE’s pre-application with $98.4 million in funding, the largest award in its 10-year history. FSU has pledged $65 million to the initiative, whose total cost is estimated at $300 million. FSU’s proposal listed state, federal and private contracts and grants; state and federal budget allocations; private donations; and student tuition and fees as additional anticipated funding sources.
On Feb. 5, the Triumph board met at FSU Panama City (FSU PC) and unanimously approved the term sheet, sometimes referred to as clawback criteria, for InSPIRE. At this writing, a location for the project has not been finalized, but sites at the Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport are the leading possibilities, Hardin said.
As a Triumph board member, Leslie Weiss, a civil engineer who heads up a firm located in Crawfordville, assessed FSU’s application based on factors including its forecast economic impact.
“For every Triumph dollar spent, we expect to get $10 back out of it, which is a great amount,” said Weiss, who is a member of the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Advisory Board.
Dr. Farrukh Alvi, the associate provost for innovation, research and entrepreneurship in STEM at FSU, was the team lead in developing the proposal. Dr. Stacey Patterson, FSU’s vice president for research, was the principal investigator. Their work involved ensuring that a long list of collaborators and partners were informed and on board.
“This is a community initiative,” Alvi said. “FSU led but not FSU only.”
Projected partners include FSU colleges and research centers; K-12 public school districts; state colleges and technical colleges; military bases; businesses ranging from Danfoss Turbocor to Space X; and economic development agencies.
Patterson said InSPIRE will employ a pull strategy, seeking to attract partners for whom the institute’s unified, multi-disciplinary team of experts can solve problems. Barriers that may separate engineering and physics departments, for example, in academic environments will not exist here.
“The work carried out at InSPIRE will change as industry needs evolve,” Patterson said. “We are going to have to be nimble. We’re going to have to act like a business.”
In conversation, Alvi tries to avoid the word ecosystem, finding that it is overworked, but he occasionally relents.
“Exactly what we are trying to build is an ecosystem and a culture, so that it becomes second nature for people to associate the area with not just beaches but also applied R&D,” Alvi said.
He sees parallels between Huntsville, Alabama, when its evolution toward becoming “Rocket City” was young, and what will be the early stages of InSPIRE.
“We are confident that the investment made by FSU and Triumph and other funding entities in InSPIRE will be dwarfed by the investment in the region that it will attract,” Alvi said.
As they undertook the proposal-writing process, Alvi, Patterson and others had the “luxury and challenge” of starting with a clean sheet of paper.
“We began by thinking about the needs of the region,” Alvi said. “We recognized that it is too reliant on tourism. We looked at businesses that are already present in the region and assets including military bases.
“At FSU, we’ve been working closely with Eglin Air Force Base for more than a decade,” Alvi said. “We do research for them and provide training. We’ve done programs at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Bay County. We spoke with military bases as we refined our proposal and obtained letters of support from them. Those conversations informed our plan and our decisions about what areas to emphasize first.”
Alvi, who has been with FSU and the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering for a combined 30 years, recalls when FSU PC, in 2009, was recommended for closure by an FSU budget crisis committee. The campus survived, in part, by agreeing to enrollment growth requirements.
In addition, FSU PC worked to become more relevant by strengthening ties with area employers. At the time, Alvi was an associate dean at the College of Engineering in charge of graduate programs there. He was instrumental in bringing about a master’s program in systems engineering at FSU PC, a development that helped meet needs at the Naval Surface Warfare Center.
“We took available expertise and bridged gaps,” Alvi said. “That’s what we want to do with InSPIRE — fill in missing pieces by building on a foundation.”
Alvi stressed that, appropriately, InSPIRE will be additive, not duplicative and will allow FSU to play to its strengths.
“We’re building upon things that we have done and do well,” he said. “FSU is in a grant position to execute project aims because of its expertise in education in STEM fields. Nationally, we are well known in aerospace additive manufacturing for energy and national defense applications. This is going to be the initial thrust, but we hope down the road that there will be other areas that will come in.”
Alvi mentioned health care as one possibility, noting that additive manufacturing will play a big role in the production of wearable, health-monitoring devices.
He anticipates that InSPIRE will attract companies that will have employment opportunities for military personnel who are transitioning out of active duty; people with four-year degrees and associate degrees; and graduates of certificate programs.
“We want to build a talent pipeline from an early age,” Alvi said. “We want students in middle and high school to start envisioning the kinds of careers they can have. Workforce development is integral to our proposal — talent nurturing and retention.”
“InSPIRE is a game-changing project for the entire Northwest Florida region,” Hardin said. “It is going to put our area on the international map like never before. It is focused a lot in the aviation sector, but its additive manufacturing component has application to the automation of manufacturing in all sectors.”
Meanwhile, FSU is not prepared to rest solely on its Triumph triumph. With other schools, it is writing a National Science Foundation funding proposal called NSF Engines.
“We are talking about economic engines,” Alvi said. “The focus is on additive manufacturing for defense and energy. There is tremendous synergy between InSPIRE and the NSF proposal. It’s not a given that it will succeed, but if it does, it is possible to receive up to $160 million over the life of the project.
“That’s an example of the kind of thing that InSPIRE will allow us to leverage. We’ll be able to think bigger and be competitive because funders and industry will see that we are seriously invested already.”
Patterson is excited about what can be InSPIRE’s regional impacts.
“The opportunity for us to recruit industry partners will provide new opportunities for students to not only go to school in North Florida, but to stay in North Florida and build their families. When regions can do that, it raises the bar for everyone and everything improves.”
Where ACC Students Come From
Where ACC Students Come From (2023)Not-so-shocking ACC student body factoids.
— Grant Hughes (@GrantHughesNC) May 19, 2024
UNC and NC State rank Top 3 with highest percentage of in-state kids (80+ %).
Duke and ND rank dead-last. Duke's campus is just 11.6% in-state (!) and has nearly twice as many NY, NJ, CT kids than North Carolinians. pic.twitter.com/JmnlhVfYAp
Mostly In-State:
FSU 84.8%
UNC 83.4%
NC State 82.6%
Cal 77.7%
Louisville 72.7%
VT 63.9%
UVA 61.8%
GT 56.4%
Pitt 54.1%
Clemson 52.4%
The vast majority of the students at FSU, UNC, NC State and Cal are from in-state.
For GT, Pitt, and Clemson, it's slightly more than half.
Mostly Out-of-State:
Notre Dame 93.7%
Duke 88.4%
Wake 86.1%
BC 78.8%
Miami 76.5%
Syracuse 71.9%
Stanford 65.5%
SMU 61.8%
A mere 6.3% of Notre Dame's students come from Indiana. Wow! Duke and Wake are in the high 80% in terms of out-of-state students, too.
Conclusions:
For the most part, public schools tend to have higher percentage of in-state students, while private schools tend to attract more out-of-state students.
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