FCAN Blog
The Students Who Make Florida Talent Strong — Smaya Arana
This story is Part 4 of FCAN’s The Students Who Make Florida Talent Strong series, which highlights the different pathways available for Florida students to achieve education beyond high school. Read Part 1 2 and 3 now. Smaya Arana is a traditional-aged,...
Register today for December 14 FCAN webinar — Serving Undocumented Students in the College-Going Process
Guest presenters: Luz Corcuera, Executive Director, UnidosNow Daniel Barkowitz, Assistant Vice President Financial Aid/Veterans Affairs, Valencia College Pedro Hernandez, Director of Outreach Services, Office of Student Financial Assistance, Florida Department of...
Share the ways you are #Thankful4Pell during NCAN’s weeklong campaign Nov. 15-19!
Pell Grants play a crucial role each year in helping millions of low-income students pursue and achieve their postsecondary ambitions. That’s why the National College Attainment Network (NCAN) has re-launched its annual campaign to help tell the stories behind those...
NCAN Guest Blog: Making in-roads between K-12 and higher ed is more than freezing summer melt
Bill DeBaun, National College Attainment Network Earlier this year, NCAN observed that “summer is the time for K-12 and higher ed to be friends.” As it turns out, fall is a pretty good time for that, too! Our sense from talking with districts and schools across the...
COLUMN — Closing the growing gender gap in higher education
By Paul J. Luna and Charleita M. Richardson The following column was originally published in the Tampa Bay Times on Nov. 1, 2021. A gender gap in higher education has steadily expanded into a chasm, with male students lagging in both college entrance and completion...
Key takeaways from “Strengthening Campus Connections: How Living Learning Communities Increase Student Success”
Guest presenters: Brenda Spencer, Director, Living-Learning Community Program, Florida A&M University Neudy Nuñez, Assistant Dean and Director, Office of Multicultural Affairs, University of South Florida Delaenam Akahoho, First-year Master’s student (College of...
“First Look” FAFSA completion dashboard for the 2021-22 school year is now available
Thanks to the U.S. Department of Education, information on the number of this school year’s Florida high school seniors who have completed the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is now available! FCAN has published a “First Look” data dashboard showing...
Business leaders share top components of career readiness for a Talent Strong Florida
Today’s young adults are much less likely to have had a paid summer job or been employed in the last year, and the pandemic has only exacerbated these trends. Many employers find that recent high school and college graduates lack “soft skills” or are not “career...
The Students Who Make Florida Talent Strong — Marquis McGary and Florentina Denis-McGary
This story is Part 2 of FCAN’s The Students Who Make Florida Talent Strong series, which highlights the different pathways available for Florida students to achieve education beyond high school. FCAN believes that in order to build a Talent Strong Florida with a...
Key takeaways from “Supporting the College Success Needs of Black Students: Findings from Florida Student Surveys”
Guest presenters: Vanessa Coca, Ph.D., Director of Research, The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice Kallie Clark, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice FCAN host: Kimberly Lent, Assistant Director of...