Florida State College at Jacksonville (FSCJ) is a public college in Jacksonville, Florida. It is part of the Florida College System and one of several institutions in that system designated a "state college" as it offers a greater number of four-year bachelor's degrees than traditional community colleges.The college was established in 1966 as Florida Junior College. It has four major physical campuses and several additional centers located around the First Coast region and currently enrolls 52,000 students..
Through the lens of assessment as a form of service-learning, this case example provides insight into the initiation and implementation of data-oriented skills and career competencies through an interdisciplinary Honors College undergraduate course. Utilizing service-learning principles as the guiding framework, key steps are outlined to highlight positive practices that informed the early and ongoing course development to emphasize the application of assessment skills in a client-focused environment. Recommendations for creating experiential learning structures to be adapted across varied institutional types are also shared.
BACKGROUND:Nursing education requires innovative models to prepare practice-ready nurses with global health competencies and real-world research experience. This qualitative descriptive study examined the implementation and outcomes of integrating a U.S. Department of State Diplomacy Lab project on artificial intelligence (AI) applications in global HIV care into a Registered Nurse to Bachelor of Science in Nursing (RN-BSN) Research and Informatics course. METHOD:Content analysis was conducted on de-identified student assignments from 55 RN-BSN students across three course sections, including annotated bibliographies, discussion posts, and synthesis presentations. Frequencies and comparative analyses were used to assess consistency across sections. RESULTS:Students identified more than 30 AI technologies across the HIV care continuum, with emphasis on prevention (32%), treatment (27%), diagnosis (21%), and ethical considerations (20%). Findings were consistent across course sections (χ2 = 2.62, p = .623). CONCLUSION:Integrating a Diplomacy Lab offers a replicable strategy to strengthen research competencies and align nursing education with global health priorities.
The Testament of Job has been read primarily as literature of patient endurance, an approach shaped by Philonenko’s influential association of the text with the Therapeutae. Subsequent scholarship has largely retained this devotional framework, attending to the model of individual piety the text commends while leaving its political dimensions unexplored. It is this dimension that the present article takes up, reading the Testament as a counter-portrait of legitimate foreign kingship constructed against Herodian memory. Across six domains of royal conduct, Idumean identity, temple action, economic generosity, the treatment of wives and household, the body under affliction, and the deathbed scene, the Testament presents its Idumean king as a systematic inversion of Herod the Great as he was remembered in Roman-era Jewish tradition. Job’s legitimacy rests on his character, whereas Herod had to manufacture his legitimacy through building projects, force, and staged mourning. On this reading, the Testament’s ὑπομονή is not passive piety but political theology, the retention of royal fitness when every instrument of coercion has been stripped away. Such a reading may also bear on the text’s date, since the inversions would have spoken most clearly to readers for whom Herod was still a recognizable figure.
Community colleges focus on technical skills, completion rates, and employment metrics. As careers in the United States become increasingly technical, employers indicate that technical skills are just part of an employee's role. Regardless of the level of technical application, employees must be able to make decisions, think quickly and rationally, exhibit self-awareness, communicate effectively, and solve problems. Due to the technical nature of the work, employees must be motivated to develop career and cultural competencies. The purpose of this study was to explore employers’ perceptions of the role of soft skills in the workforce. Using a semi-structured protocol and eight industry professionals in Duval County, Florida, a focus group was conducted to explore employer perceptions of soft skills in the workforce. Four themes emerged from the data: cultural fit, motivation, communication, and performance. The data indicated that employees’ contributions to the organization’s culture were most important to them, while an employee’s performance was considered the least important. Organizations could use this data to better inform onboarding and professional development for new employees and those moving into supervisory positions. Community colleges could use this data to better inform their curriculum and course content. Data indicated that community colleges must offer soft skill training as a prominent element of a two-year degree program, while employers will focus on discipline and industry-specific skills.
