To understand Patty Adeeb’s compassion for her students, you have to go back to her childhood. It was a traumatic one that inspired a deep desire to help others.

Here is a big green thumbs-up to Florida State College at Jacksonville.

Take advantage of special FSCJ staff & student discounts to start your summer off right with great entertainment!

There are far too many residents who struggle to afford consistent dental care, so let’s praise Florida State College at Jacksonville’s Dental Hygiene Clinic for helping to fill the void.

Brandi Bleak discusses some free and paid apps for Apple and Android that provide weather updates and up to the minute notifications.

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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