Polk State College is getting a boost to its nursing program, with Florida-based AdventHealth donating $1.7 million to the program
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Polk State College Will Launch a Civics Academy for High School Students
Polk State College is one of three state institutions awarded $6.5 million to establish civics academies to prepare high school students for careers in government service, ClickOrlando reports. “They are actually going to partner with their local school districts. Students can enter the program as early as ninth grade… at the state college,” Gov. Ron […]
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Polk State College Forgiving $1.2 Million in Student Loans
Polk State College is using $1.2 million of its federal COVID-19 relief funds to forgive 1,300 student loans, Fox 13 News reports. The debt relief applies to loans issued by the college to students enrolled between March 2020 and June 2021. Amounts vary from 47 cents to $17,000. | ALSO: News Channel 8, Bay News […]
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Lawsuit Against Polk State College Seeks Return of Unused Activity Fees
A student represented by Morgan & Morgan has filed a class action lawsuit against Polk State College seeking the return of activity fees collected last year from all students but unused because of Covid campus closures, The Ledger reports. The suit also challenges a new state law shielding colleges from such lawsuits. Plaintiff Shantrell Fisher’s […]
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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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Polk State May 2 Graduation Sells Out
A full house is anticipated at the RP Funding Center’s George Jenkins Arena next Thursday when 650-plus students participate in Polk State College’s 6:30 p.m. commencement ceremony. The students have claimed their allotment of six tickets each and no more are available, the college said in a news release. The ceremony will be live-streamed. Source: […]
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SCHOOL BUS REDUCTION: More than 1,500 students would be affected as the Polk County School District proposed doing away with bus service for all charter schools and for many students who live within two miles of their schools. POLK STATE UNION: Adjunct professors at Polk State College filed to establish a union with peers at […]
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Lakeland PSC Enrollment Has Passed Winter Haven
As Lakeland has grown, so has enrollment at the local campus of Polk State College, PSC President Angela Falconetti said in the Listen Lakeland podcast. “It used to be that the Winter Haven campus had more students than the Lakeland campus,” she told Lakeland Vision’s Ashley Troutman. “Now the Lakeland campus has a higher enrollment […]
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New Program Helps Low-Income PSC Students
Polk State College students with financial need will get help finding college and community resources under a new, $100,000 program co-sponsored by United Way of Central Florida aimed at improving graduation rates. Case worker Casmore Shaw will be available on the Lakeland campus 1-5 p.m. Tuesdays and 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursdays in LTB […]
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HIGHER ED: PSC students get easy access to UCF online courses under a new agreement | Florida Poly‘s enrollment grows even as its freshman class shrinks TEACHER: Lakeland native Jessica Fredricks connects with students countywide through drumming and enthusiasm. Source: The Ledger