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

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.

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.

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.

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

The school year still brings the same feelings for the president of Florida State College at Jacksonville. Just before the start of her first fall semester, Bioteau took part in a campuswide convocation, a ritual to celebrate the school year and one she wants to ramp up in the coming years.

It was a morning spent showing GE leadership different Jacksonville neighborhoods like Avondale and Riverside, selling them on Jacksonville and its housing and quality of life for the company’s workers. Then came meetings at the Cecil Airport Conference Center with a full staff on deck. Officials from the city, JEA, CBRE, Hillwood, CareerSource, Florida State College at Jacksonville and the chamber were all in attendance

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Professor Tim Gilmore discusses his new book.

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!

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.

Professor Susan Reilly talks to Shannon Ogden on First Coast News On Point.

Ron Smith, executive director of information technology and chief security officer at Florida State College at Jacksonville, said consumers can minimize their risk by several steps. "Don't use a free WiFi to access your bank account," said Smith.

Florida State College at Jacksonville will become a new partner for preparing educators to teach about the Holocaust.

A few opportunities for job-seekers are coming up.