The Lakeland City Commission will be asked Monday to amend the city’s impact fee structure to allow 100% discounts for high-wage “target” businesses that move into a proposed 4,484-acre “innovation district” in the northeast reaches of the city near Florida Polytechnic University. FOLLOWUP: The proposal was approved 6-0. Commissioner Sara Roberts McCarley was absent from […]
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Florida Poly Gets Funding for Applied Research Center
Florida Polytechnic University says its Applied Research Center can open on time in spring 2022 now that a $14.8 million allocation has been approved in the state budget, Tampa Bay Business Journal reports. | Also: Other Polk County projects dodged vetoes, The Ledger reports Source: Tampa Bay Business Journal
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Lakeland Colleges Encouraging But Not Requiring Covid Vaccines
Florida Southern College, Polk State College and Southeastern University are not requiring students to be vaccinated for COVID-19, but the institutions are encouraging students to receive a vaccine. Florida Polytechnic University has not yet made a decision.
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FSC Opens Accelerated MBA Program to Florida Poly Students
Florida Polytechnic University students will be able to earn their STEM bachelor’s degree and then a master’s in business from Florida Southern College in five years, thanks to a new partnership between the two institutions.
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Florida Poly Prioritizing $3 Million in Budget Cuts
Administrators at Florida Polytechnic University are grappling with how to cut $3 million from the STEM university’s budget, as requested by the Florida Board of Regents, Tampa Bay Business Journal reports. That correlates with an 8.5% reduction in state general revenues and lottery funds. Source: Tampa Bay Business Journal
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Three Lakeland Colleges Place in U.S. News 2021 Rankings
Three Lakeland institutions — Florida Southern College, Florida Polytechnic University and Southeastern University — made the cut when U.S. News and World Report released its annual college rankings earlier this month.
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Venture-Capital Fund Partners With Florida Poly
Florida Funders LLC, a Tampa-based venture-capital fund, is partnering with Florida Polytechnic University to connect potential entrepreneurs there with career opportunities, Tampa Bay Business Journal reports | Florida Funders LLC Source: Tampa Bay Business Journal
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Avent: Pending Land Sale Could Boost Research Park
Hopes for a research park adjacent to Florida Polytechnic University could get a boost via a pending deal by a developer to buy several thousand acres from the Williams Companies, the university’s president told Lakeland city commissioners on Tuesday.
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Florida Poly Merger Bill Advances Toward a House Vote
The bill to merge Florida Polytechnic University and New College into the University of Florida is headed for the House floor after being passed following abbreviated discussion by the Appropriations Committee Tuesday evening. Opposed by both schools and committee Democrats, the bill could become embroiled in “smoky back rooms where lawmakers trade priorities at the […]
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DeSantis Introduces Another Poly Merger Option: USF
As the Florida Legislature ponders a proposal to place Florida Polytechnic University under the administrative control of the University of Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis has introduced another option: the University of South Florida. House Speaker Jose Oliva said he also likes the idea of merging both Florida Poly and Sarasota’s New College with Tampa-based USF; […]
