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Florida Community College At Jacksonville

School Overview:

School Notes:

• The mission of Florida Community College is represented by three waves. One wave represents the Liberal Arts Transfer function — students planning to finish a four-year degree after completing freshman and sophomore years at Florida Community College. A second wave stands for Workforce Preparation and Advancement, helping students learn specific skills for specific jobs in our community. The third wave is Community Service, a wide range of classes and services that help our community grow and meet its cultural needs. As these three waves are pulled together by our solid base of dedicated professionals, they form a tetrahedron, one of nature's strongest shapes. The dynamic of the three waves touching each other at the peak of the pyramid allows for easy transfer of energy from one wave to the next, one mission path to the next. Throughout the lifetime of each resident of Northeast Florida, all three waves may come into play, helping to begin a career, advancing a career by teaching new skills or teaching a skill that enhances leisure time or retirement.
• Florida Community College campuses or centers are located throughout Duval and Nassau counties, offering courses during the day, evening and weekends. Every campus offers adult studies programs (adult high school, GED and adult basic education) as well as the courses required to earn an associate in arts degree for university transfer. But beyond that, each campus has its own specialties, nuances and attributes that make each a little different than the others. Students may choose to attend one or more campuses/centers of their choice, but keep in mind that the core courses for many associate in science and certificate programs are available only at specific locations.
• Downtown Campus is just a few blocks from The Jacksonville Landing, the heart of urban Jacksonville. The campus, which opened in 1977, is located at 101 W. State St. between Main and Jefferson streets.
• At Downtown Campus, special emphasis is placed on college credit, continuing education and occupational skills training programs. The campus includes classrooms and laboratories for instruction in such programs as building trades, engineering technology, automotive technology, electrical and metal trades, and English as a second language.
• Downtown Campus reaches out to many different segments of the community through programs for widowed persons, senior adults, displaced homemakers and visually impaired adults. Major adult basic education, adult high school and GED offerings are available too. The Business and Industry Outreach program offers customized training programs on campus and in-house to local employers.
• Profile last updated: 08/22/2008.

In the News:

• Mandarin High graduate dies in helicopter crash in Iraq (The Florida Times-Union)
  posted on November 11, 2009 at 12:56:21 am
  Earl Scott III, a 24-year-old pilot in the Army and graduate of Mandarin High School, died in Iraq on Sunday. His helicopter crashed in Tikrit, according to Army officials. His father, Earl Scott Jr., told the Times-Union that his son dreamed about being a pilot. He was studying aviation at then Florida Community College at Jacksonville before he enlisted in March 2006. He hoped to finish his ...
• Mandarin High Graduate Killed In Iraq (WJXT Jacksonville)
  posted on November 10, 2009 at 10:14:25 pm
  An Army soldier observes the landscape as he mans an M-240 machine gun in an UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter flying over Baghdad. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- On the eve of Veterans Day, a Mandarin family learned that their son and brother was killed on Sunday when a helicopter made a hard landing north of Baghdad.
• Guiding the rails (Jacksonville Daily Record)
  posted on October 21, 2009 at 02:44:00 pm
  The Skyway Operation Center on Leila Street off Riverside Avenue is where everything that has to happen to keep the trains moving is headquartered. It’s where operators control the trains with a complex computer system and where the trains are maintained and repaired.
• Softball. UCF Softball Hosts UCF Tournament to Open Fall Season This Weekend (UCF Golden Knights)
  posted on October 7, 2009 at 04:22:09 pm
  Autumn is finally upon us and so is the UCF fall softball season. The Knights kick off their 2009 fall schedule this weekend when they host five area collegiate softball teams at the UCF Softball Complex for the UCF Tournament.
• Lady Tetons split pair of matches (Williston Herald)
  posted on October 4, 2009 at 03:08:26 am
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. â” The WillistonâState College Lady Tetons split a pair of matches in a volleyball tournament held Friday in Jacksonville, Fla.

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