College uses business best practices to grow

Florida Polytechnic University in Lakeland has surpassed several milestones.

  • By John Haughey
  • | 6:00 a.m. August 17, 2018
Calvin Knight. Florida Polytechnic University President Randy Avent has systematically built the school over the past six years.
Calvin Knight. Florida Polytechnic University President Randy Avent has systematically built the school over the past six years.
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When lawmakers created Florida’s 12th public university in 2012, they christened it with a distinctly different mission than traditional academic institutions: develop cutting-edge curriculum to draw science, technology, math and engineering students to drive high-tech, high-skill economic development statewide.

 

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