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Beacon Approved for Step Up
August 19, 2025
Beacon College has been approved as a state vendor for Florida’s Family Empowerment Scholarship for Students with Unique Abilities (FES-UA).
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Summer for Success 2025
August 12, 2025
Self-confidence is just one of the benefits that neurodivergent students gain by attending Summer for Success, the college’s pioneering summer college immersion experience for high school students with learning and attention issues.
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Sampling College in Summer Program
August 5, 2024
This year, 145 high schoolers signed up to tackle 28 college-level courses through Beacon's popular Summer for Success high school transition program.
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Students Find Success and Themselves During Summer for Success Program
August 3, 2023
By Marco Santana As he reflects on the time spent this summer with prospective Beacon College students, shivers run down mathematics instructor Angel Maldonado’s spine.
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Neurodivergent Students Learn College Ropes in Popular Beacon Summer Program
August 1, 2022
Summer for Success students study robotics. By Richard Burnett On his first day at Beacon College, Sahil felt like he had arrived on another planet.
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Ingram to Bring a Little Broadway to Summer for Success Program
June 2, 2022
As associate director of enrollment services, Chrystol Ingram makes sure students at Beacon College successfully complete their application process and secure financial aid.
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Summer for Success: Energizing The Mind While Having Fun
July 28, 2021
From Disney to Broadway, high students from across the country found new avenues of creativity during the 2021 edition of Summer for Success, Beacon College’s annual summer college immersion program.
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Real-world Learning
July 21, 2018
Summer for Success students continued their scholastic explorations in Week Two.
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Let’s Get it Started!
July 14, 2018
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
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The End of the Road
July 28, 2017
As teenagers streamed into the Leesburg Boat Club, it was tough for heads not to spin as if on a swivel considering the chocolate fountain, trays of cookies, and other yummies that adorned the banquet spread.
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Lights. Camera. Action!
July 21, 2017
In the week that the Zombie King, George A. Romero, exited this earthly realm, Matthew Cupach resurrected the horror vibe in his video class.
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Puzzled!
July 21, 2017
Staiger, career instructor at Beacon College, played team whisperer to students in her learning essentials course, among the rigorous courses Beacon College’s summer immersion college experience for high schoolers, Summer for Success, where students receive a taste of a college and some beefy tools for managing learning differences they can use to succeed while still in high school.
“For students who learn differently, these unique college readiness programs take on ever greater importance. Now, families can utilize the Family Empowerment Scholarships to ensure their students are prepared with the skills and confidence to enter college and not only succeed academically but also thrive as independent young adults,” said Dale Herold, Beacon’s senior vice president for enrollment management and auxiliary program initiatives.
To use the scholarship at Beacon, Florida families must apply through the Step Up for Students program. In 2025, approximately 112,000 students applied for FES-UA scholarships, which helped students with special needs customize their educational experience.
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College readiness is more than being well-prepared academically.
It’s about ensuring college-bound students have the skills and confidence to adapt and grow as they make new friends, experience greater personal freedom, and adjust to changing routines and unfamiliar settings.
College Readiness Programs