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he U.S. Education Department said it has discovered a calculation error in hundreds of thousands of student financial aid applications sent to colleges this month and will need to reprocess them — a blunder that follows a series of others and threatens further delays to this year’s college applications.A vendor working for the federal government incorrectly calculated a financial aid formula for more than 200,000 students, the department said Friday. The information was sent to colleges to help them prepare financial aid packages but now needs to be recalculated — even as the department works through a backlog of more than 4 million other financial aid applications.

Ben Sasse, the former Republican U.S. senator for Nebraska, was formally inaugurated Thursday as the 13th president of the University of Florida during a ceremony full of pomp and symbolism that dated to the Middle Ages.

A notice posted on the Hodges University website Friday announced the closing of the Fort Myers school after 33 years of education services.

Aum Dhruv, a recent Fort Myers High School graduate, was awarded a $20,000 scholarship check from FPL Tuesday7. He plans on attending Princeton University in the fall.

Some experts say there is a largely hidden group — full-time college students struggling with serious food insecurity — that is an issue which came out of the shadows during the pandemic with at least 30% of college students suffering from being food insecure.

Leaders of a First Amendment group and a national higher-education association are pointing to a controversial new law shielding presidential candidates’ identities as harmful to public trust and academic freedom.

Florida's Board of Governors is slated to take up the issue during a meeting Thursday. Presidents and trustee chairs of all 12 state universities co-signed a letter endorsing the idea of an out-of-state tuition hike.

The Immokalee Foundation’s Career Pathways Program offers educational scholarships and unique job training to bolster the future of Southwest Florida's workforce.

Gov. Ron DeSantis' office is scrutinizing diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at Florida's universities, as part of a campaign to root out what they claim is "indoctrination". But a top official overseeing the schools says some of the programs should continue.