When President-elect Barack Obama takes office in January, the expectations and challenges will be massive. They are so huge, in fact, that Americans need to let reality set in or they are in for a major disappointment. No president past or present could make our problems go away in a short period of time. There's too much to repair that were years in the making. Still, there are a couple of things that must be done, even if the payoff is down the road a ways. ...more

November 30, 2008

Carolyn Collins sat on her couch the night Barack Obama was elected president and thought about her late parents, who had drilled into her that she had the right to vote. ...more

November 24, 2008

A Tierra Verde woman attending college at the University of Pennsylvania is among 32 people from across the United States to win this year's Rhodes Scholarships. Anthropology student Abigail Seldin, 20, curated an exhibit about Pennsylvania's Lenape Indians, a tribe long thought to have left the state by 1803. ...more

November 23, 2008

Florida colleges and universities searching for ways to accommodate an anticipated rush of veterans seeking a higher education next fall now have a financial incentive. ...more

November 11, 2008

When Congress passed a recharged GI Bill for veterans in the summer, most lawmakers probably didn't consider the capacity of Florida's public colleges and universities. ...more

November 1, 2008

Two things, and only two things, are off-limits in the examination of Rose Fernandez's life: "My age and my weight. I don't discuss them." Otherwise, her experiences, decisions, associations, philosophies and maybe even - assuming one thought to ask - shoe size are open for inspection. ...more

October 22, 2008

The nation's credit crunch has frozen Florida's ability to borrow money, but that isn't yet causing problems for the state, a top state money manager said Tuesday. ...more

September 30, 2008

Some of the most influential college admissions officials have moved to break the decades-long stranglehold the College Board has had on the process, saying for the first time that institutions of higher education should move away from their reliance on SAT and ACT test scores in admitting students. ...more

September 25, 2008

As colleges and universities tighten up admissions standards, some students look to improve their acceptance chances by taking the SAT multiple times. ...more

September 19, 2008

Sebring High School junior Kayla Deeson plans on graduating early, in December 2009, so at Monday's College Night she eagerly gathered information and talked to admissions counselors about her plans to study nursing. ...more

September 17, 2008