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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 […]

Mitch PerryMarch 5, 2018

Haywood L. Brown has been named the University of South Florida’s new vice president for diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity and Title IX administrator. “Dr. Brown is a highly accomplished and well-respected leader in academic medicine and issues of diversity who will make the University of South Florida System even stronger,” USF President Judy Genshaft said […]

Danny McAuliffeMarch 5, 2018

The three independent campuses affiliated with the University of South Florida network could soon be consolidated under one accreditation. The House passed a bill Monday afternoon that, if signed into law, would require two smaller auxiliary campuses, USF St. Petersburg and USF Manatee/Sarasota, to become part of the main USF Tampa campus by July 1, 2020. The […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 5, 2018

Despite strong objection from administration officials, more than 900 adjunct professors of the University of South Florida (USF) have won the right to vote on unionization later this month. “When we come together and keep fighting, we win,” said Tara Blackwell, a USF adjunct professor of cellular and molecular biology. “The administration took every opportunity to […]

Peter SchorschJanuary 31, 2018

Currently in the Florida Legislature, there is a provision in a bill that “no later than Jan. 15, 2019” USF must submit a plan to “phase out the separate accreditation of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg Campus and the University of South Florida Sarasota/Manatee Campus … no later than June 30, 2020.” Make no […]

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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

USF names new head of diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity

House passes USF consolidation plan

USF adjunct faculty to hold union election

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