The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of South Florida plans an open house to showcase its programs and study groups. ...more

August 27, 2008

The University of South Florida held its first classes 48 years ago, and only now has what it considers a true student union. ...more

August 24, 2008

Seems like a stupid enough question. Of course we care about schools. Aren't we spending numbers that now are in the billions on education? Isn't the state government obsessed with fiddling with the school system? Isn't the University of Florida now the No. 1 party school in the country? Obviously we care about something. ...more

August 1, 2008

The nation's first charter school run by a public university might be transferred to the Hillsborough County School District because USF Patel Charter School lacks money and services to boost its failing status. ...more

July 30, 2008

The struggling University of South Florida Patel Charter School, which received an F grade from the state this month, may become part of the Hillsborough County School District as early as next week. ...more

July 29, 2008

TAMPA A bioengineering research company that could create 100 high-paying jobs now and more later is a step closer to setting up shop on the University of South Florida's campus. ...more

July 16, 2008

Two debutantes were introduced recently at an 1860s-themed ball sponsored by the Augusta Jane Evans Wilson Chapter 2640 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. ...more

July 16, 2008

Judy Genshaft, provost and vice president for academic affairs at the State University of New York at Albany, knew what she wanted when she applied for the presidency of the University of South Florida in 1999. A major research university in an anti-ivory tower, urban environment. A place young enough — 40-something — to still be making its mark. A place where community synergy and economic partnership could be more than idealistic aspirations or trendy buzz words. Then throw in the unique, semi-tropical locale that is the Tampa Bay region. ...more

July 15, 2008

How ironic that in the same week University of South Florida President Judy Genshaft notified the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools that USF's campuses in Lakeland and Sarasota would be seeking independent accreditation, the St. Petersburg campus was put on probation for its own accreditation lapses. ...more

July 6, 2008

TAMPA - University of South Florida leaders have swept through their various colleges and reworked the way they will deliver a higher education to meet the grim budget realities they now face. The biggest changes will hit the College of Arts and Sciences, USF's largest. Although the college gains some institutes that stood alone at the university, it will undergo an administrative overhaul and lose some disciplines to other colleges. ...more

June 12, 2008