Jacob OglesDecember 30, 2022
9min0
The budget will fund the federal government through September.
Tag: Pell GrantsA nice warm evening in Tallahassee on a very busy street while taking this shot.
Jacob OglesDecember 30, 2022
Renzo DowneySeptember 13, 2021
4min1351
The school also moved up 13 places among all public institutions.
Associated PressApril 28, 2021
5min1010
A trillion here, a trillion there: Biden's talking about real money.
Drew WilsonOctober 12, 2020
4min834
But cost is a barrier.
Renzo DowneyDecember 12, 2019
5min623
The higher education analysis reform bill made headlines last year.
Lloyd DunkelbergerMay 13, 2018
7min294
Florida’s public universities graduated 57 percent of low-income students receiving federal Pell Grants in six years, but that trailed the graduation rate of non-Pell students, a new study shows. The analysis by Third Way, a Washington, D.C.- based think tank, used newly reported federal data to track a 2010 cohort of first-time, full-time Pell students […]
Shannon NickinsonSeptember 29, 2015
8min189
This should be the University of West Florida time in the sun. Pensacola’s university saw funding restored this year following a marked improvement on the new state-mandated performance metrics. The measurements –10 in all from academic progression rates, to graduation rates to median first-year salaries for graduates — are Florida’s latest salvo in the ever-expanding […]
Mitch PerryApril 1, 20156min201
The St. Petersburg City Council won’t be voting on that newly revised agreement that Mayor Rick Kriseman worked out with the Tampa Bay Rays last week that seemed to resolve the main conflict in why the Council didn’t approve the deal last December: the redevelopment rights to Tropicana Field. The new deal the mayor negotiated […]
Mitch PerryMarch 31, 2015
5min206
Since the 1970s, tuition rates have risen over 1,000 percent, while state funding of universities has declined by 40 percent. And the proportion of young Americans with education debt more than quadrupled, from 5 percent to 22 percent. Pinellas County Republican David Jolly says student debt is a serious issue, and he wants to find […]
Mitch PerryMarch 31, 20155min159
Since the 1970s, tuition rates have risen over 1,000 percent, while state funding of universities has declined by 40 percent. And the proportion of young Americans with education debt more than quadrupled, from 5 percent to 22 percent. Pinellas County Republican David Jolly says student debt is a serious issue, and he wants to find […]