
Dual enrollment provides academic, cost-saving opportunities to Polk State students

Polk State serves nearly 3,000 students each year through its dual-enrollment, early-admission, and collegiate high school programs, providing a variety of accelerated-learning and cost-saving opportunities for students and their families. Dual-enrollment and early-admission options allow…

Polk State KCTIPS Director Capt. Garcia: Growth comes from getting out of your comfort zone

Capt. Theresa Garcia’s 20-year career in law enforcement has been a successful one, with Garcia quickly rising through the ranks, starting her career as one of few female narcotics detectives, and now settling into the…

KCTIPS students receive Dustin Ramsey Memorial scholarships in memory of late recruit

Polk State College Kenneth C. Thompson Institute of Public Safety (KCTIPS) recruits Clayton Cox and Brad Johnson were each awarded $1,000 from the Dustin Ramsey Memorial Scholarship Fund in memory of the late recruit remembered…

Polk State to close for winter break, spring 2020 enrollment will remain underway

Polk State College will close at 5 p.m. Monday, Dec. 16, for winter break, but enrollment for spring 2020 will remain underway. College offices will reopen Thursday, Jan. 2, and classes will start Monday, Jan.…

Polk State celebrates 121st graduating class

Polk State College celebrated nearly 1,200 students who qualified to participate in the 121st commencement Thursday at the RP Funding Center in Lakeland. More than 550 graduates, families and friends, and guests who attended the…

Jesse Stine Memorial Scholarship for Future Paramedics awards first recipient – Stine’s best friend

It was difficult for Alex Marshall to pose with his scholarship and smile for a picture Tuesday – just days before the anniversary of his best friend’s passing who the award is in memory of.…

Back to school at 40 and graduating, Polk State Aerospace student gets to “do every day what I dreamed of as a kid”

Anthony Reynolds wanted to fly since childhood. At 6 years old, he told his aunt he aspired to become a pilot. At 17, he flew his first plane. But at 19, he decided to stay…

Students graduating with Polk State’s 10th Diagnostic Medical Sonography class are going on to variety of careers in the field

Many people encounter a sonographer for the first time when they are checking up on their not-yet-born bundle of joy. In fact, several of the dozen students graduating with Polk State College’s 10th Diagnostic Medical…

POLKcast: Scholarships and the power of giving with Tracy Porter

Tracy Porter is Executive Director of the Polk State College Foundation, which awards approximately $1.5 million in scholarships to Polk State students each year. In this episode of POLKcast, Porter shares the support that is…

Polk State named Philanthropic Corporation of the Year, student receives Youth in Philanthropy Award

Polk State College and the Polk State College Foundation were collectively named the Philanthropic Corporation of the Year during the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Greater Polk County’s National Philanthropy Day Celebration, where student Makenna…