Explore, create, lead: FGCU’s journals prepare students for what is next
July 08, 2026 / Tags: FGCU's Journals, Aquila, Student Research, career exploration, Mangrove Review
The Mangrove Review team at the Florida College English Conference in Ybor City (Tampa, Florida), part of an extraordinary year for the student-run literary journal.
Mangrove Review
Since its first, slim publication in 2002, Mangrove Review has provided an unparalleled showcase of student creativity and professional expertise, from training staff and critiquing submissions to working with a design team to finalize layout. Each spring, this work culminates in a new issue with poems, stories, photographs, and other forms of art and literature.
The journal’s reach goes beyond English and art majors. Students from different disciplines and career paths, including commuters and transfer students, enrich the community at every level. Reflecting FGCU’s Strategic Plan: Innovating for student success, Mangrove Review elevates partnerships for regional impact through affiliated programs such as Open Arts at the Library, the Samuel Pepys Reading Series, Storytelling at FGCU, and support for the Sanibel Island Writers Conference.
As generative AI continues to reshape the academic and professional landscape, Mangrove Review helps students develop critical thinking and transferable skills through reviewing original, human-created content and collaborating with others in reviews and publication processes. These inherent relational skills cannot be replaced by AI. Each volume is led by an editor in chief supported by lead editors for each genre, who recruit and train assistant editors to conduct blind reviews.
Mangrove Review welcomes submissions from students, faculty, staff, alumni, authors, and artists from around the world. The 2026 issue showcased seventy talented artists and writers. Learn more: fgcu.edu/mangrovereview.
Aquila: The FGCU Student Research Journal
Launched in 2014 and now housed in the University Library, Aquila is an interdisciplinary student-centered journal with two goals: celebrating student scholarship and professionalizing student editors with career-ready skills
Aquila: The FGCU Student Research Journal is an interdisciplinary, student-centered journal published by the University Library, showcasing undergraduate and graduate scholarship from across all colleges and disciplines.
Aligned with FGCU’s Skills Advantage Program, the journal incorporates the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) competencies, encouraging student toward professional goals and producing artifacts students can use in transferable skills digital badges in areas such as written communication, critical thinking, and teamwork. Every publication receives a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), making the work permanently discoverable through Google Scholar.
Undergraduate and graduate students from any major can contribute original research, literature reviews, case studies, and, beginning fall 2026, recorded performances.
The March 2026 issue included four articles on research conducted by FGCU students and faculty. The articles explored golf swing kinetics, vitamin A, criminal recidivism and justice for crime victims, and human-to-animal interactions.
Learn more: journals.flvc.org/FGCUAquila
