Watch live: Chamber panel on education in Palm Beach County. What's next?
Watch the event live on the Post's YouTube channel here, or at PalmBeachPost.com. Follow The Post's YouTube channel for more videos.
The breakfast also includes invitations to every principal in the School District of Palm Beach County, the release of the 2025 Education Guide, a school supply and backpack collection for the Education Foundation of Palm Beach County and a post-event session called "Partnering with Principals, from 9-9:30 a.m.
Vanderbilt University plans a down West Palm graduate campus
Vanderbilt University is raising money for its planned downtown West Palm Beach graduate campus.
Palm Beach County commissioners gave final approval to a contract with the Nashville-based university in October to build a graduate campus in West Palm Beach. The contract calls for Vanderbilt to spend at least $2.4 billion in the first 25 years and $5.3 billion in the first 50 years "in connection" with the school and related operations.
The campus will include nearly 1,000 students in graduate-level business programs such as an Executive MBA and master's in finance, and in engineering and computing-focused fields like artificial intelligence, data science and computer science.
PBSC to train students for high-paying EV jobs in 2026
Palm Beach State College will start training students for high-paying electric vehicle mechanic jobs starting in 2026, thanks to millions of dollars from the federal government that Congresswoman Lois Frankel requested in the spring.
Frankel said that the public college would get more than $4.1 million to build garage bays, classrooms and labs to train students to work on electric vehicles, hybrids and other autos that burn little, if any, gasoline or diesel fuel.
PBSC's Palm Beach Gardens campus is home to the SoFi Center, an arena that houses the new TGL indoor tech-golf league founded by golfing greats Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, who both live in Palm beach County.
Keiser University plans to significantly expand its West Palm campus
Keiser University recently announced plans to significantly expand its campus in West Palm Beach with a new, five-story residential hall and a five-story STEM center.
The 155,000-square-foot residence hall is expected to house 592 students. The 100,000-square-foot science, technology, engineering and math center will specialize in what Keiser is describing as "multi-educational simulation."
The university noted that it is "exploring additional enhancements to accommodate future growth toward a 5,000-student campus population and to solidify its role as a leading institution of impact in West Palm Beach."
Keiser has campuses in 17 Florida cities, including its flagship residential campus in West Palm Beach, where this expansion is planned. It also has a campus in the city's western reaches off Jog Road.
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