Boosting Black Student Success is a Boost for Tampa Bay

Boosting Black Student Success is a Boost for Tampa Bay

by Paul Luna, President and CEO, Helios Education Foundation Across the Tampa Bay region, more than 345,000 students will start school this month. The new school year brings with it the shared hope, among everyone invested in the success of our schools and...
COLUMN — Closing the growing gender gap in higher education

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...
New Helios-funded effort seeks to stop COVID melt

New Helios-funded effort seeks to stop COVID melt

Nationwide, far fewer high school graduates went to college immediately after high school in the fall of 2020 as a result of COVID-19. To help bolster college enrollment opportunities in the state, the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) recently announced a $1.5...

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