Classes for the new academic year got off to a smooth start Tuesday for Saint Leo University's full-time undergraduate students at the main campus in Pasco County. ...more

August 26, 2009

Alex Guerra discovered a surprising fact of student life this month at what has been one of the region's fastest-growing colleges. ...more

September 23, 2008

The University of Tampa has a student housing deficit, a good-news, bad-news situation it says it can handle. ...more

September 22, 2008

People who knew him say that when Lee Boswell turned up at Florida College, they could have placed a wager on the garb he would sport and the gifts he would bear. ...more

August 27, 2008

People who knew him say that when Lee Boswell turned up at Florida College, they could have placed a wager on the garb he would sport and the gifts he would bear. "He would arrive on campus in khaki pants, a straw hat and usually with a cigar in his mouth," said Bob Owen, Florida College president from 1982 to 1991. "And, he always had two sacks: One was a sack of oranges for the students, and one was a sack of money to make sure the faculty got paid." Owen, who is married to Boswell's daughter Janelle, was among the speakers at the Aug. 15 dedication of the new 320-capacity Boswell Hall for male students, named in honor of the college's longtime supporter, a Lakeland citrus farmer who died in 1994, and his wife, Margaret, the mother of their five daughters. The ceremony also marked the opening of the Christian college's 90-student-capacity Terrace Hall, the neighboring new women's dormitory. ...more

August 22, 2008

Each one has a story. For some, their childhoods were marked by foster homes and food stamps. Others dodged the drugs and guns that permeated Miami's housing projects. Many were raised in one-parent households where their part-time work helped pay the bills. ...more

July 8, 2008

For decades, USF, with some help from the federal government, has set aside money, faculty and space in its residence halls each summer for students from low-income families who are the first generation in their families to go to college. ...more

July 7, 2008

Frank Urso grew up in Ybor City - the "barrio" as he affectionately calls it - where his family worked in the cigar factories. He enrolled at the University of Tampa in 1953, thinking a college degree would open opportunities he saw so rarely in his neighborhood. ...more

January 26, 2008

University of South Florida freshmen who live outside the Tampa Bay area would have to live in a campus residence hall under a plan that got preliminary approval from USF trustees Tuesday. ...more

November 7, 2007

The rapid growth at the University of Tampa has slowed. Although the university's enrollment this fall increased 4 percent to 5,601 - nearly double what it was a decade ago - the number of freshman fell for the first time in years. ...more

October 2, 2007