Florida Keys Community College (FKCC) is a community college located in Key West, Florida (main campus on Stock Island, adjacent to what it purports to be the only living coral reef in North America). FKCC also operates two additional campuses in the Florida Keys; one in Marathon and another in Key Largo. With its Key West location, FKCC can claim the title of the southernmost post-secondary school of any type within the 48 contiguous United States.
FKCC offers two year Associates degrees in various programs, as well as Associates degrees for students transferring to four-year institutions. As of 2011, FKCC had graduated over 1,000 nurses. Among FKCC's unique degree programs (based on the needs of the Key West area) are Marine Technology, Marine Environmental Technology, and Diving Business & Technology. FKCC also offers Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Management through an agreement with Hodges University.
FKCC also operates the Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center, named for the famed playwright who lived in Key West.
Famous quotes containing the words florida, keys, community and/or college:
“In Florida consider the flamingo,
Its color passion but its neck a question.”
—Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)
“Bless all useful objects,
the spoons made of bone,
the mattress I cook my dreams upon,
the typewriter that is my church
with an altar of keys always waiting.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.”
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)
“[B]y going to the College [William and Mary] I shall get a more universal Acquaintance, which may hereafter be serviceable to me; and I suppose I can pursue my Studies in the Greek and Latin as well there as here, and likewise learn something of the Mathematics.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)