Florida State University Panama City has received recognition as a registered program with the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) Board to offer a new bachelor’s degree in financial planning.

The new FSU financial planning degree includes the CFP curriculum for financial planning and trains students in additional finance-related areas, such as financial advising, investments, portfolio management, estate planning, risk management, financial customer service/consulting, ethics and finance-related entrepreneurship. 

Florida State University Panama City is pleased to welcome new faculty member Sarah Wofford-Mares, who will begin teaching biology courses at FSU Panama City in the Fall 2022 semester.

Florida State University Panama City invites the community to a Summer Send Off for the Kinsey African American Art & History Collection on July 28 with Shirley and Bernard Kinsey.

“It has been our honor to host this world-renowned exhibit, and we have been overwhelmed by the tremendous response from our community,” said Dean Randy Hanna. “We look forward to welcoming the Kinseys back to FSU Panama City and hope you will join us.”

The St. Joe Co. has approved a $50,000 grant for Florida State University Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) community program, OLLI at FSU PC30A.

On June 16, St. Joe Community Foundation Executive Director April Wilkes presented a check to the FSU Foundation at FSU Panama City for OLLI at FSU PC30A. The grant will be funded over a one-year period.

Florida State University Panama City is partnering with SkillStorm, a tech talent accelerator, to launch technology-based training courses for students, alumni and professionals looking to advance their careers in the tech industry. 

This first-of-its-kind initiative aims to enable more members of the FSU PC community to access training in high-demand tech skills and will allow students to pursue industry certifications such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Practitioner Certification and AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification. 

Florida State University Panama City has named Brittany Pace as the new public outreach specialist for the St. Andrew and St. Joseph Bays Estuary Program. She began her role as outreach specialist on June 1.

Florida State University Panama City faculty member Denise Montford, ACSW, LCSW, has been named the 2022 Social Work Educator of the Year by the Florida Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW-FL).

Montford will be recognized during a ceremony at NASW-FL’s annual conference in Orlando on Thursday, June 9. NASW-FL established the statewide award to honor an exceptional educator who has demonstrated dedication to students and education, in addition to advancing the profession through research.

FSU PC has receives approval of a $7.6 million grant to provide partial funding for Collegiate Laboratory High School.

FSU PC hosts international guest speaker Dr. Ieva Birka as part of the “Illumination" events.

FSU PC hosts commencement ceremony May 1 at Tommy Oliver Stadium.