The Florida State College Foundation and the City of Jacksonville were awarded a $25,000 grant by the Walmart Foundation through the Walmart Foundation’s State Giving Program for the Pre-Collegiate Studies College Reach-Out Summer Program.

RateMyProfessors.com released its annual list of Top University Professors today, charting the best teachers in higher education based on student reviews. FSCJ had two teachers ranked on this list.

A number of factors have combined to create the difficulty of finding workers. Among them: Many of those who worked in the industry during the boom years abandoned it when things went bust, and students coming out of high school in those years stayed away in droves.

Local nurses are speaking about the Ebola outbreak following three local scares at area hospitals.

The U.S. Department of Labor today announced $169,771,960 in grants to expedite the employment of Americans struggling with long-term unemployment.

Watch as FSCJ Professor Danna Morris discusses the appropriate precautions that nurses are taught in the FSCJ Nursing program.

Chicago's legendary sketch comedy theatre, The Best of The Second City, will play at Jacksonville's Times-Union Center's Terry Theater on Saturday, January 31, 2015 at 8:00PM for one performance only, featuring some of the best sketches, songs, and improvisations from The Second City's 55-year history.

Florida State College at Jacksonville hosts a day of awareness on vision loss and the deaf community with Thursday events at two of its campuses.

Chef Tim Talley credits FSCJ with being instrumental in his rise to Executive Chef at The Ponte Vedra Inn & Club.

Differences remain about raising base salaries

FSR magazine recently selected Florida State College at Jacksonville’s Culinary Arts program as one of America’s Top 20 culinary schools.

The popularity and creativity of contemporary fiber art has been trending steadily upward in recent years. Several local members of the North Florida group, the Fiber Artists’ Network, were juried into the Members Exhibit of contemporary fiber art, on view now through Oct. 29 at the Florida State College at Jacksonville, North Campus Art Gallery.

The new U.S. National Tour of Annie, the world’s best-loved Broadway musical, opens the FSCJ Artist Series season from October 21-26 at the Times-Union Center!

Professor Tim Gilmore discusses his new book.

In recent years, mounting concerns about inequality have fixated on the need for greater economic diversity at elite colleges, but the interest has tended to obscure the fact that the vast majority of high school students — including the wealthiest — will never go to Stanford or the University of Chicago or Yale. Even if each of U.S. News and World Report’s 25 top-ranked universities committed to turning over all of its spots to poor students, the effort would serve fewer than 218,000 of them.

For Florida State College at Jacksonville, outside hitter Alexandra Henriott (Bartram Trail) has a team-best 199 kills. Abbey Barnhard (Ponte Vedra) is fourth with 103 kills.

FSCJ Learning Innovations Engineer Brandi Bleak leads a technology segment on The Chat on First Coast News.

Florida State College at Jacksonville (FSCJ) was one of only 78 organizations in the U.S. recently awarded the Susan Harwood Capacity Building Training Grant. This is the fourth consecutive grant awarded to FSCJ.

Community colleges in 21 states have added four-year bachelor’s degree programs in high-demand fields, for example, and those in California will follow suit next year. They’ve connected closely with local businesses, and provide education so much more in tune with workforce needs that people who have bachelor’s and even master’s degrees return to community colleges for training that will get them jobs. Among students who transfer from four-year public universities, more than half now go in the opposite direction of Miramontes and switch to a community college, the National Student Clearinghouse says.

Negotiations are set to continue between the union representing faculty of Florida State College at Jacksonville and its management.