Crowe on Campus Brings Real-World Experience to the ‘Hill’
Crowe LLP, a public accounting, consulting and technology firm, announced that Crowe on Campus, an innovative in-school paid internship, launched at FAMU’s School of Business and Industry. Crowe has 40 offices, including three in Florida.
FAMU is the first historically Black university to participate in this unique collaboration offered at just four other universities. Crowe on Campus is an opportunity for real-time learning that combines classroom and professional experiences.
Students are provided with a lab environment in which to learn about public accounting and auditing – without the hassles of commuting to an office or a client site. An on-site supervisor from Crowe will be present whenever students are working to train, monitor, assign tasks and lead the interns to build their technical expertise. Students will work using a Crowe-provided computer, and they will receive continual feedback from their on-site supervisor as well as the off-site teams they work with.
FAMU Prepares for Its Statewide Small Farm Program Series
FAMU’s Statewide Small Farm Program is an active participatory sustainable development strategy that provides relevant education, technical assistance and hands-on training to underserved farming populations and their communities. This year’s Small Farm Program Series, under the theme “Enabling a Thriving Sustainability” kicked off on Sunday, February 17, at 2:30 p.m., with “Reclaiming the Roots of Organics” at the Viticulture and Small Fruit Research Center, located at 6361 Mahan Drive.
This series will feature special guest John Ikerd, Ph.D., an internationally and nationally recognized visionary, professor emeritus of Agricultural Economics at the University of Missouri and author of six books, including the critically acclaimed Small Farms Are Real Farms Sustaining People through Agriculture.
This series will be in collaboration with the FAMU Statewide Small Farm Program, School of the Environment and local small farmers. For session times visit FAMUnews.com. Contact Jennifer Taylor, Ph.D. at (850) 599-3546, (850) 412-5260, or Jennifer.Taylor@famu.edu for additional information about this and other sustainable development efforts.
FAMU Professor Invited to Perform at Havana International Jazz Festival
Florida A&M University (FAMU) Professor of Trumpet and Composition, Longineu Parsons Jr. Ph.D. was invited to perform at The Havana International Jazz Festival 2019, one of the largest events for jazz enthusiasts around the world.
Parsons represented the University and its outstanding commitment to the arts. He has been praised worldwide as one of the finest trumpet players. Parsons, alongside other jazz professionals, celebrated the significance of jazz and its role in the Cuban culture during the event.
The festival took place January 14 – 21 in Havana, Cuba, in honor of its 34th edition of the event in Havana City and third edition in Santiago de Cuba.
