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A national free speech group is demanding that Florida International University drop disciplinary charges against seven students who staged a March 13 silent protest against university cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on campus.

Students stood in silent protest against the university's collaboration with ICE during a campus event. The school says because the protest was inside, it violated school conduct policies.

Monday's night's also honored acclaimed Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie K. Brown, who received this year鈥檚 Alberto Ibarg眉en Excellence in Journalism Award 鈥� a special distinction reserved for an outstanding journalist and leader.

Florida International University is holding a critical conversation on the the future of the First Amendment, partnering with Georgetown University鈥檚 Free Speech Project to host "Free Speech: A Florida Dialogue," a symposium tackling today's most "pressing challenges to free speech."

The dramatic move is a culmination of the state鈥檚 years-long battle over sociology as a discipline, and mere months after the state controversially required professors to use a new textbook that was in large part edited by state officials.

The South Beach Wine & Food Festival began at Florida International University鈥檚 Biscayne Bay Campus in 1997 as a one-day, student-run event. Today, it鈥檚 one of the country's largest culinary festivals. But one thing hasn鈥檛 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, SA国际传谋 found. "What was put on our shoulders was saving our discipline and saving our colleagues' jobs,鈥� 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鈥檚 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. FIU officials also announced a new initiative aimed at supporting Cuba鈥檚 transition to democracy.

The XV Conference on Cuban and Cuban American Studies is set to take place February 26鈥�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 鈥� a core concept in sociology,鈥� an associate professor said.