From AI and construction to nursing programs, here's how funding for Tampa Bay colleges and universities will be spent.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Alarmed by a growing shortage of nurses, Florida lawmakers in 2009 eased regulations on the schools tasked with training them, inviting new institutions to ...

Florida State University has taken the lead on a national scale with a new nursing degree based on what has been the talk of the town in higher education — artificial intelligence (AI). The College of ...

Program to Welcome First Cohort on May 4 to Put More Nurses on the Front Lines, Help Fill the State's Critical Nursing Shortage MIRAMAR, Fla., May 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Grand Canyon University is ...

Getting new nurses into the workforce has become critical in Florida, with a forecasted shortfall of 31,000 nurses by 2035. The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the printed paper ...

After gaining near-unanimous approval in the Florida House, legislation aimed at strengthening state oversight of nursing schools died in the Senate this month, the third year in a row such efforts ...

The for-profit Brilliant Academy Health Center, on Conway Road in Orlando, Florida, won state approval and opened in 2018. It charges aspiring nurses $27,000 annually. The state has placed it on ...

Nursing programs in Florida would have to achieve accreditation within five years of accepting students under a bill sponsored by Republican State Senator Denise Grimsley. Plummeting test scores and ...

In nursing homes across Florida, elderly residents have much to lose from the spending cuts proposed in Washington, D.C. Medicaid is the primary payer for nursing-home care in Florida — and the only ...