Yasmin Estrada is devoting part of her summer to help fellow Immokalee youths achieve the same dream she has realized: becoming a college student. The Florida Gulf Coast University junior is…
Under a Round 2 TAACCCT grant, Sinclair Community College is leading a consortium with Austin Community College and Broward College to implement flexibly paced, competency-based education (CBE) programs in information…
Children are not all the same, nor are they equally ready upon graduation for the challenges of college or the modern workforce. A new report by the bipartisan Foundation for…
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…