Florida International University

The South Beach Wine & Food Festival began at Florida International University’s Biscayne Bay Campus in 1997 as a one-day, student-run event. Today, it’s one of the country's largest culinary festivals. But one thing hasn’t changed: the FIU connection and the students behind the scenes.

The controversial new Introduction to Sociology textbook, created by the state of Florida to meet its new academic restrictions, is missing entire chapters like Race and Ethnicity, Global Inequality and Gender, Sex and Sexuality, WLRN found. "What was put on our shoulders was saving our discipline and saving our colleagues' jobs,” said a sociologist who helped create the book.

Gov. Ron DeSantis took part in a dedication of a statue for President Ronald Reagan at Florida International University on Friday as part of his commemoration of the nation’s 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. FIU officials also announced a new initiative aimed at supporting Cuba’s transition to democracy.

The XV Conference on Cuban and Cuban American Studies is set to take place February 26–27 at FIU's Modesto A. Maidique campus.

Peter Gutierrez, 21, has lived in Cutler Bay for much of his life, but when he reached adulthood, he began to question whether Miami was where he wanted to settle down.

On an ideal morning, Giovanna Ruiz would wake up slowly as the sun spilled across her bedroom wall. Wrapped in a lounge set with a warm cup of coffee in hand and her cat Chi Chi curled beside her, she might journal, paint or read, just because she can.

In a dramatic escalation of a years-long battle over sociology in Florida colleges and universities, FIU faculty allege that new state mandates for an Introduction to Sociology course amount to an attack on academic freedom and censorship of the discipline. "There are no discussions of systemic or structural racism — a core concept in sociology,” an associate professor said.

Former Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez took her oath of office Friday, cementing her (semi-)new title: president of Florida International University. The FIU community and Nuñez’s network gathered for her presidential investiture ceremony in Miami, complete with video comments from Gov. Ron DeSantis. She’d served at FIU on an interim basis since she left the governor’s office in February,

The annual Fulbright fellows gathering will be held for the first time in Miami this week — hoping to help reverse the U.S.'s pullback from influential international exchange programs.

Erika Donalds, wife of Florida gubernatorial candidate Rep. Byron Donalds, made a stop at Florida International University on Wednesday night, not to stump for her husband, but to advocate for the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education and other conservative education reforms, reports POLITICO Florida.

The Trump administration is trying to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs as part of a broader campaign to end what it calls “wokeness” in American education. As part of this rollback, the Justice Department announced in July 2025 that it would no longer “defend” the federal definition of Hispanic-Serving Institutions, or HSIs.

The protest immediately followed the brokerage of another ceasefire between Israel and Hamas militants — and potentially an end to the two-year-old conflict.