Polk State Lake Wales Arts Center to Kick Off Arts Incubator Series on June 20
Polk State College’s Lake Wales Arts Center will kick off a first-of-its-kind series, the Arts Incubator, on June 20 at 6:30 p.m. The first installment of the Arts Incubator Series, dubbed Works in Progress, will…
Polk State’s Roe Earns Second Invite to Clinton Global Event
Polk State College’s Eric Roe will participate in the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative America meeting in Chicago later this week, where leaders from the business, nonprofit and government sectors will strategize solutions for the nation’s…
Polk State Hosting Several Summer Athletics Camps
Polk State is offering several athletics camps for kids this summer, all of which will feature the College’s expert coaching and lots of fun. Baseball Polk State’s baseball camps include stretching and…
Polk State’s Ross Quoted in Inside Higher Ed Article on New Education Bill
Polk State College’s Kenneth Ross recently lent his perspective on a sweeping new education bill to the news website Inside Higher Ed. A June 5 article titled Remediation If You Want It examines the potential…
Holden On Track to Lead Florida Association of Colleges and Universities; a First for Polk State
Polk State President Eileen Holden is on track to lead the Florida Association of Colleges and Universities in the year 2015-16, becoming the first from this institution to ever do so. Holden is currently serving…
Polk State Lakeland to Host First Full-Length Play
Polk State Lakeland’s burgeoning theatre presence will mark a new milestone on June 20, with Almost Maine, the first full-length play to be staged at Polk’s largest campus. Almost, Maine is a series of nine vignettes, each of…
Taiwanese Visitors Impressed with Polk State’s Offerings
On Thursday, Polk State hosted six Taiwanese visitors who are in Central Florida as part of a Rotary International exchange program. The group is three weeks into their tour of Hardee, Highlands, Hillsborough and Polk…
Sports Fan from Niagara Falls Has Deep Love for Eagles Athletics
Herb Hull, 76, loves baseball. Hull has watched his favorite New York Yankees play at Yankee Stadium. He’s visited the stadiums of the old days to watch past stars, such as Jackie Robinson and Sal…
Polk State Changes 135 Lives With Elementary Scholarship Week
Wednesday was the last day of school for thousands of Polk County students, but for 135 of them, the end of the year was also the beginning of a new chapter in their lives —…
Polk State Public Safety Institute Receives Sheriff’s Commendation
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd issued a special commendation on Monday to Polk State College for the performance of its public safety training institute, which recently became the first of its kind to receive Accreditation…
