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Florida Gulf Coast University and its partner, the FutureMakers Coalition at the Collaboratory in downtown Fort Myers, has been awarded a $22.9 million dollar grant. The grant will help fund an effort to fundamentally change how people are trained and jobs are filled in Southwest Florida and beyond.

FGCU received a transformative $22.9 million grant to boost education and economic collaboration in the local working community.

FGCU President Emeritus Dr. Wilson Bradshaw talks about how much has changed around issues of social justice and anti-racism over the past year and a half, including the new "Stop Woke Act" -- or HB 7 -- that governor Ron DeSantis signed into law on July 1, 2022.

Explore ways our modern response to the COVID-19 pandemic might have similarities to plagues in history, and how writers like, William Shakespeare, responded.

The Lee County Sheriff’s Office has launched a death investigation following a drowning incident, Monday, involving two children in a lake on the campus of Florida Gulf Coast University.A social media post from the San Carlos Park Fire Protection & Rescue Service District says two victims, a boy and a girl, were transported to Gulf Coast Medical Center in critical condition.

Madison Franz, an advocate for gun reform and early childhood education student at Florida Gulf Coast University, is planning a march on Saturday, June 11 in downtown Fort Myers. The event is in partnership with hundreds of similar demonstrations across the country and internationally through the nonprofit Marches For Our Lives.

"Moore About Business" provides information and insights on Southwest Florida business. This week, Karen Moore focuses on the funds from the American Rescue Plan Act and other small business programs.

Employers in southwest Florida are searching for employees with expertise in specific areas, which may require additional schooling beyond a standard college degree. Enter micro-credentials.

Ghostbird Theatre Company is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a play 400 million years in the making. Called, "One Island," the performance is inside the Wasmer Art Gallery at FGCU.

As Florida Gulf Coast University’s academic year comes to a close, we reflect back on the first year of the university Journalism program’s “Democracy Watch” initiative. It’s a collaboration between FGCU’s Journalism BA program and the WGCU-FM news team designed to give exceptional upper-level students real-world experience reporting in the field while also enhancing and expanding WGCU’s coverage of important local government actions that often go overlooked and unreported. We reflect back on this first year of the program with members of the inaugural class of “Democracy Watch” fellows.