A nonprofit group recently gave 10 students an eight-day trip of a lifetime to New York and Washington, D.C. ...more

July 15, 2009

Historically black colleges and universities, which for decades have been educating students who can't afford to go — or can't imagine going — elsewhere, have been particularly challenged by the nation's economic meltdown. ...more

February 15, 2009

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

Lay off the lattes. Buy a house you can afford. Refrain from grabbing every electronic doodad that rolls off the Best Buy truck. ...more

November 23, 2008

The nation's largest gathering of minority Ph.D. students is taking place through Sunday at the Tampa Waterside Marriott. More than 1,000 doctoral students and college faculty members have assembled to train, network and resolve a mounting challenge: the thin ranks of minority faculty nationwide. ...more

October 24, 2008

The staff at Bruton Memorial Library is once again turning back time with a presenter who will show her audience what a historical writer looked and sounded like about 70 years ago. ...more

September 10, 2008

The way college students come to campus now is much different than in years past. You can expect to see members of the millennium generation arriving for college with parental escorts and modern conveniences such as cell phones and computers. If not in their first semester then certainly by the second, many will have their cars on campus. ...more

September 6, 2008

He lives on Manatee Harbor Drive, with his house number emblazoned on a manatee-shaped plaque. ...more

July 5, 2008

Local paleontologist Frank Garcia celebrated another feather in his cap Friday: A miniature sea cow that swam the seas of Central Florida 5 million years ago will bear his name in the history books. ...more

June 28, 2008

former professor who pleaded guilty to conspiring to aid a Palestinian terrorist group was charged Thursday with refusing to testify before a grand jury in a related investigation. ...more

June 26, 2008