New College of Florida, which is controlled by the governor’s hand-picked board of trustees, will acquire the Sarasota-Manatee campus of the University of South Florida next month.

Amid intense pressure from the Trump administration and deepening public skepticism of higher education, a number of colleges have embarked on an unusually public bout of self-scrutiny in an effort to regain public trust.

Having career goals is important. But life teaches us (sometimes painfully) they are a woefully inadequate foundation for a meaningful life.

They all begin college with hope, and leave without the credential they believed would shape the rest of their lives due to financial instability, family, illness.