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Julianna Bendeck

  • FGCU’s Contemplative Life community has been helping students learn to tackle life's challenges.
    Mental Health
    Class and club build community around meditation and mindfulness
    Julianna Bendeck
    For 10 years, FGCU’s Contemplative Life community has been helping students learn to tackle life's challenges.The Contemplative Life course teaches students meditation, yoga and other skills that allow for greater mindfulness, stress management and emotional resilience. Dr. Maria Roca introduced the class – and what eventually became a community — to FGCU.
  • The books being collected during the FGCU Honors College Book Drive will be given to children in grades K-5 at San Jose Elementary School in Kabankalan, Philippines. Since Feb. 3, FGCU students have been dropping off books to one of five boxes in front of the Honors College (Reed 155). Each box represents a different “house” that honors students can be sorted into: Dolphin, Flamingo, Manatee, Panther or Sea Turtle. Nearly 100 books have been collected so far.
    Education
    Book drive by FGCU Honors College helping elementary school children in the Philippines
    Julianna Bendeck
    Behind FGCU’s Honors College book drive is a story of cultural ties and compassion. Students are donating books to support children in the Philippines— an effort inspired by the dean’s wife’s heritage.FGCU’s Honors College is made up of students who take an active role in their education and demonstrate leadership skills. According to FGCU’s website, students in the Honors College have access to exclusive course sections, advising, project funding and more.