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Janelle Irwin TaylorDecember 13, 2018

The Florida Board of Governors appointed real estate executive Mike Griffin chair of the University of South Florida’s Consolidation Planning Study and Implementation Task Force Thursday. Griffin will replace Dr. Jonathan Ellen who resigned earlier this week from both the task force and as CEO of All Children’s Hospital. The task force oversees recommendations for […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorDecember 5, 2018

Trustees at the University of South Florida approved the search requirements Tuesday for a new system president to replace Judy Genshaft who is retiring July 1. The board approved qualifications to seek a new university leader with a robust academic background, a feature requested from students and faculty since Genshaft announced her retirement earlier this […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorDecember 5, 2018

Hillsborough County is moving forward with plans to bring electric scooters to the county. Hillsborough County Commissioners voted to have county attorneys work with staff from the electric scooter company Bird on how and where to implement service. Electric scooters are an emerging micro-mobility transit solution aimed at providing first mile/last mile solutions to transit […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorDecember 4, 2018

During its final meeting of 2018 Tuesday, the University of South Florida Board of Trustees outlined progress on and future steps for consolidating its three campuses — St. Petersburg, Sarasota/Manatee and Tampa — into one single accreditation. The three campuses currently work under separate accreditation, but the state passed a plan to integrate them earlier […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorNovember 30, 2018

U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist and most Pinellas County elected officials are urging University of South Florida President Judy Genshaft to ensure the future success of the downtown St. Petersburg campus as the school makes plans to consolidate its regional campuses into a single accreditation. In a letter signed by Crist, state Sen. Darryl Rouson, state Reps. Jennifer Webb […]

Jacob OglesNovember 25, 2018

Many of the political world’s differences erased as leaders rallied instead around the loyalties that truly matter—college football allegiances. But an on-field injury that caused the entire sporting world to pause also led to introspection on the part of pols. Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer took note on Friday evening of a major knee injury for […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorNovember 13, 2018

The University of South Florida is joining a national effort to increase college access and boodt by hundreds of thousands the numbers of degrees awarded by the year 2025. USF will be part of a group of 130 public universities working together to close the achievement gap between minority, low-income students and their non-minority peers. […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorOctober 19, 2018

The University of South Florida School of Architecture and Community Design’s Florida Center for Community Design and Research (FCCDR) is teaming up with community partners to come up with resiliency strategies to deal with climate-related impacts to Florida including red tide, toxic algae blooms and hurricanes. The groups will develop ideas on how to build […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorOctober 8, 2018

Florida Governor Rick Scott’s U.S. Senate bid got some good news this week, thanks to a University of South Florida College of Marine Science report. A three-week red tide mission found abnormally cooler temperatures and increased salt content might have caused this year’s red tide outbreak. Scott is running against incumbent U.S. Senator Bill Nelson. Scott […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorSeptember 28, 2018

A former brewer is suing Pennsylvania-based Yuengling after he was terminated for missing work to attend a court hearing, according to a lawsuit filed in Hillsborough County. Eric Abrams began working at Yuengling in 2008. He was fired from the company’s Tampa brewery in 2017 two days after attending a divorce-related proceeding. Abrams claims he […]

Tag: USF

Mike Griffin to head USF consolidation task force following Jonathan Ellen’s resignation

Judy Genshaft’s successor at USF to be an academic

Hillsborough County eyes electric scooters

Kate Tiedemann College of Business likely protected in USF consolidation

Pinellas officials want USF St. Pete protections in consolidation plan

College Football shows true political partnerships and divisions

USF joins national coalition to boost student graduation

Kathy Castor announces climate change coalition with USF

Red tide report spells good news for Rick Scott

Former brewer slaps Yuengling with age discrimination suit