First Coast News and Action News covered the press conference with Year Up Jacksonville. Year Up Jacksonville is an intensive year-long program, composed of six months of technical training and professional skills development, followed by a six month internship with one of the local business partners. Students earn college credits and are paid a stipend during both phases of the program. The program launched in January 2015 and is currently serving 24 students and will expand to serve 40 students in Fall 2015.

“The American Dream,” which its author, Harolyn Sharpe, describes as a one-hour presentation using prose, drama, live and recorded music and screen images of paintings and photographs to reveal America’s history of “getting the dream, losing the dream,” will be performed Monday and Tuesday.

With the fourth of July coming up, Brandi Bleak discusses some great travel apps that can help you on your trip.

This year, more than 530 workforce certificate students, 90 high school equivalency graduates and 32 adult high school graduates earned their diploma/certificate through FSCJ.

When veterans rejoin civilian life, one of their greatest challenges is finding a new career.

The 10th Annual High School Summer Musical Theatre Experience at Florida State College in Jacksonville is bringing a time-honored classic to life this summer.

At this time four years ago, the Alvin Brown era was just beginning for Jacksonville.

For students who didn’t make it into the University of North Florida this year, a new door to a four-year bachelor’s degree there just opened.

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In case you missed it, the ERP/Campus Solutions Project just launched a dedicated monthly newsletter to help keep faculty and staff apprised of important information regarding the College’s transition to Oracle PeopleSoft.

As hurricane season approaches, we want to make sure that faculty, staff and students know how and where to find important information during emergency situations.

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Florida Chief Financial Officer and State Fire Marshal Jeff Atwater announced the Department of Financial Services initiative at Florida State College at Jacksonville's Fire Academy of the South on Thursday.

FSCJ launched the Mechatronics certification in January of 2014.

Florida State College at Jacksonville is one of the 19 communities getting a $192,300 job training grant from the Environmental Protection Agency.

Cleve Edward Warren is a Jacksonville native with a long track record in finance, education and community service.