University of South Florida President Judy Genshaft has the unenviable job of cutting $35.6 million from the university's budget in what's described as the worst fiscal crisis to hit higher education in a generation. ...more

May 23, 2008

With a warning that class sizes will enlarge and course offerings will tighten, the University of South Florida announced plans Wednesday to cut $50.4 million by eliminating about 450 jobs. ...more

May 22, 2008

TAMPA - To close a nearly $36 million deficit, the University of South Florida plans to cut about 450 jobs on all its campuses, university leaders announced today. ...more

May 21, 2008

When University of South Florida President Judy Genshaft flew to Tallahassee in March to lobby for the USF Lakeland campus, she took a private plane owned by the law firm that represents the company donating the land for the campus, a company that stands to make millions on neighboring lands it still owns. ...more

May 2, 2008

Compromise is never easy. Finding common ground with competing interests generally means letting go of something you value. ...more

February 16, 2008

University of South Florida President Judy Genshaft appeared before the board of the Johnnie B. Byrd Sr. Alzheimer's Center & Research Institute on Thursday with an idea: that USF take control of the center, which resides on the campus of the university. ...more

February 8, 2008

A few questions hold the key to whether USF builds the state's first public polytechnic campus in north Lakeland: Does Florida's higher education bureaucracy support it? Will the Legislature pay for it? Can it survive Gov. Charlie Crist's veto pen? ...more

January 29, 2008

As the CEOs of the three University of South Florida regional campuses, we write to respond to the editorial, "USF Can't Achieve Greatness If Branch Campuses Run Amok," (Our Opinion, Jan. 11). ...more

January 25, 2008

Ryan Saldanha spent Saturday with his college fraternity brothers pulling a toilet, a laptop computer, a bed, beer bottles, baby shoes and other debris from under bushes in a park near the University of South Florida. ...more

January 20, 2008

Medical professionals and state legislators debated Monday the governance of the Johnnie B. Byrd Sr. Alzheimer's Center & Research Institute, with some arguing the institute should be absorbed by the University of South Florida and others saying it should be independent. ...more

January 15, 2008