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….
More than 40 percent of American undergraduate college students are adults over the age of 25, many of whom are holding down jobs while working toward a degree. Yet the…
It took Shannon Connor, 48, a long time to realize her dream of college, and she had to overcome many obstacles along the way. But once she enrolled inSeminole State…
Attaining a college diploma, especially a bachelor’s degree, has a large effect on the average worker’s labor market earnings. Largely as a result, many young Americans enroll in college –…
With movement currently stalled on the Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization in both chambers of Congress, lawmakers have turned their attention to another pressing education matter: overhauling the Higher…
In the first year of the precision-machining and automation program at Sarasota Technical College, 100 percent of the students graduated with a job or job offer. That fact caught the…
Degree attainment rates are up in seven of Florida’s top eight metro areas, according to the Lumina Foundation’s latest Stronger Nation report. Florida has eight of the nation’s 100 most populated…
When Joe Murray suggested placing academic advisors in campus parking lots, he got a good laugh from his colleagues at Florida Atlantic University. But Murray, the campus’ director of advising…