Did you know that the average worker will have eight different jobs in their lifetime? Or that there are more than a quarter of a million job openings in Florida…
The District of Columbia is the student debt capital of America. At nearly $41,000, the average student loan burden for someone living in Washington, D.C., is $10,000 higher than in…
Starbucks made headlines last spring as more than just a campus hot spot when it announced a free college tuition plan for its employees. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and health insurance…
Orlando doesn’t just represent Mickey and Minnie anymore. Central Florida’s institutions of higher learning are creating a seamless pipeline of social mobility. Orlando doesn’t seem like ground zero for the…
Local students can get a head start on college while they are still in high school thanks to a cooperative program sponsored by Bay District Schools and Gulf Coast State…
Interest in adult college completion, both for adults with some college credit and those who have never before attended college, has dramatically increased across the higher education community. This report…
Younger associate degree graduates are more likely to earn a bachelor’s degree within six years than older graduates, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The…
If you’re like most people — about 95 percent of adults who can work — you have to get up and go into the salt mines each day. So there…
How local leaders are trying to close the higher education gap and diversify the workforce. For most Southwest Florida adults, education stopped at high school. Just 27 percent of working-aged…
A decade ago, 14 states allowed their community colleges to confer baccalaureate degrees, a bold, sometimes controversial departure from the colleges’ tradition of conferring two-year associate degrees and skills-based certificates….