Excelling in STEM education will require “redefined and re-imagined” colleges of education, said USF Provost and Executive Vice President Ralph Wilcox at the Dec. 8 Board of Trustees meeting. Increased STEM—short for science, technology, engineering and math—attainment starts in the “problematic” K-12 pipeline, he said. Florida students currently score 18 [...]

Photos courtesy of USF Apparently, she does, and several members of the Board of Governors committee overseeing the transition were not happy with the removal of Goodman on Dec. 20. Dean Colson, then Chair-elect of the board, called for an emergency meeting on the 22nd to question Genshaft and USF [...]

An angry employee in a hotdog costume screamed at passersby, including a blind man, to convince them to buy some hotdogs. After 15 years on the job his belligerence is blamed for the failure of the business. All this makes sense in the world of improvisational comedy, where the audience [...]

The group stood before the elevator doors on the ground floor of the Florida Atlantic University stadium as Tampa SG Vice President Zachary Johnson reminded them again: no talking, no protesting—you’re here representing the university. “Everyone is going to be watching you,” he said. An hour and a half after [...]

“Transparency in government” is a phrase tossed around on the campaign trail and at meet-the-elected official pancake breakfasts, but once in power, former proponents of openness lose their taste for it. When you read an article about a declaration of public policy and the quote is attributed to a “high [...]

BOCA RATON, Fla.—USF Polytechnic will continue to develop within the USF system until it fulfills a list of criteria and is granted independence after review, the Board of Governors decided Nov. 9. The decision provided for a transition period while Polytechnic achieves nine standards set forth in the resolution, including [...]

Beyond the table piled high with baked delectables—peach cobbler, coffee cake, whole wheat scones and homemade pumpkin muffins with cream cheese—students were learning to connect the abstract causes from public policy to the concrete effects in the community. Students from Professor Dawn Cecil’s Gender and Crime course organized a bake [...]

Sixteen journalists from a continent where gossip can be a public service and mobile media have enabled speech in unprecedented ways will visit USFSP starting Thursday, Nov. 3. Visitors from 15 sub-Saharan African countries will tour the U.S. as part of the State Department’s Edward R. Murrow program. Murrow brings [...]

The midterm Student Government Senate elections have been delayed due to an oversight in the executive branch, an SG candidate said. The original bill authorizing a $2,000 payment to Votenet Solutions, the company that operates the election software, was passed unanimously earlier this year in the Senate, but was never [...]

Discontent that had been growing for weeks in Student Government’s legislative branch culminated in an email from Sen. Jericka Knox to the Senate on Wednesday afternoon, calling for Senate President Cory Hebert to resign from his position or face a vote of confidence. “Not until now have I felt that [...]