{"id":418339,"date":"2026-10-04T07:52:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T07:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/418339\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T07:52:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T07:52:21","slug":"fsw-enrollment-tops-17k-highest-since-2011-gb-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/418339\/","title":{"rendered":"FSW enrollment tops 17K, highest since 2011 | GB Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"FSW-entrance-sign.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/689dde4b18e6d.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"105\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The entrance sign to Florida SouthWestern State College\u2019s Fort Myers campus.<\/p>\n<p>                                    Florida SouthWestern State College<\/p>\n<p>Florida SouthWestern State College enrollment surpassed 17,000 students for the first time since 2011, reaching the third-highest level in the college\u2019s history. FSW offers 29 associate degrees and six bachelor\u2019s degree programs, along with workforce certifications and continuing education. The college operates campuses in Fort Myers, Naples and Punta Gorda, a center in LaBelle and FSW Online. FSW officials said its alumni generate an estimated $430.1 million in annual economic impact through their work in Southwest Florida. The college estimates its overall annual regional economic impact at $563.1 million, supporting 6,759 jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The entrance sign to Florida SouthWestern State College\u2019s Fort Myers campus. Florida SouthWestern State College Florida SouthWestern State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3335],"class_list":["post-418339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-gb-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}