Categories | Student success

Senior moment: Capstone show a peak experience for art grads

January 13, 2023 0

Countdown to showtime Power drills buzz and hammers bang in bursts of activity fueled by excitement, anxiety and caffeine in...

Grad student follows early inspiration into forensic studies

January 9, 2023 0

When Florida Gulf Coast University graduate student Delanie Fether was young, her inquisitive mind was captivated by “Bones,” the long-running...

Nisita Fund ensures student success and community enrichment

December 14, 2022 0

Thanks to The Nisita Fund for Music Excellence, gifted to Florida Gulf Coast University five years ago by Maurizio and...

PGA golf professionals help students get on successful career course

November 30, 2022 0

For the past 14 years, students in the PGA Golf Management program, a part of the Lutgert College of Business at Florida Gulf...

Princeton Review ranks FGCU 15th for undergrad entrepreneurship

November 22, 2022 0

Florida Gulf Coast University’s undergraduate entrepreneurship program leaped seven spots to No. 15 in The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine’s...

Brothers teach others how to strive for success

November 18, 2022 0

America is a land of second chances, and two brothers with Florida Gulf Coast University ties use this ideology as...

FGCU celebrates The Water School with Nov. 18 open house

November 14, 2022 0

When Greg Tolley, Ph.D., joined Florida Gulf Coast University in 1997 as a founding faculty member, he and many of...

Navy veteran charts course toward career in software engineering

November 10, 2022 0

For Ronny Fray Regato, a senior software engineering major from North Port, the voyage from high school through service in the U.S....

Community policing is a passion for criminal justice alum

November 8, 2022 0

As overseer of the Community Relations Unit in the Fort Myers Police Department, Sgt. Gilberto Benitez takes special pride in...

FGCU celebrates $2.5M gift to construction management program

November 2, 2022 0

Florida Gulf Coast University’s construction management department received a $2.5 million gift from Stock Development. The funds will allow the program to continue...

Take a break at SoVi’s Take Care Carnival 

November 1, 2022 0

College can sometimes feel like a rollercoaster — with plenty of ups and downs and few moments of calm, it’s...

FGCU Water School researchers survey Hurricane Ian’s impact on Gulf

October 18, 2022 0

Do hurricanes make red tide worse? How are creatures that live on the bottom of the sea dealing with the...