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Florida Tech’s 15-acre Botanical Garden is now the Joy and Gordon Patterson Botanical Garden. Gordon Patterson, Ph.D., a professor of history, has taught in the School of Arts and Communication for nearly four decades. His wife, Joy, recently celebrated her fifth year as a full-time English instructor in the SAC. The couple made a generous commitment to the health and vitality of the Botanical Garden.…

Florida Tech’s music program is in its second act in recent years, adding additional classes and offering opportunities to students from all majors to learn or expand their musical interests. “We’ve increased enrollments in our large ensembles (Concert Choir, String Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, and Panther Big Band) and created several applied group courses such as Beginning and Intermediate Piano, Beginning…

Check out The Communicator for the latest news in the School of Arts & Communication (SAC), including plans new Dean Lisa Steelman, Ph.D., has for the College of Psychology and Liberal Arts. “We’re in really good shape in our college,” she says. “We have wonderful faculty and great programs. We have all of the building blocks that we need to…