New College

Graduates of New College of Florida held an alternative commencement at the Sarasota Art Museum on Thursday. Hundreds of family and friends joined them in celebrating.

The 700-student Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts has offered students at Florida's New College admission, and is matching their current cost of tuition.

2018 marks the bicentennial of the publication of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus," and Southwest Florida is marking the…