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After consulting with the legal counsel, university leaders have reversed their position and now say Student Government does not have budgetary authority over the activity-fee funded University Student Center. Furthermore, any funds left over from the $1.86 million annual budget will be returned to the USC, not to student government, as has been stated several
Twice recently, employees of the university system have asked if students understood the cost of answering questions related to the roughly $1.9 million per year from fees allocated to the University Student Center. In a meeting about the building’s budget and revenue, USF Chief Financial Officer John Long asked two Crow’s Nest reporters on Sept.
The issues surrounding the new University Student Center touch on finance, law, intent, good faith and the role of activity and service fees. It can all be a little wonky. Here, we’ll try to break it down. Students supported the creation of the USC, why is there controversy now? Students originally supported the creation
While reporting on the history and funding of the University Student Center I have often asked decision-makers and stakeholders if “good for the university” means the same thing as “good for students.” Before the student body became the majority contributor to universities’ education and general revenue, this distinction was mostly unnecessary. University students 18 years
For the first time since activities fees were more than doubled in 2010 to build and operate the University Student Center, Student Government, the lawful authority of those funds, was presented a budget for approval on Sept. 26 that accounts for the building’s revenue. However, the $1.9 million budget proposal presented by Assistant Director of
Following a story published in The Crow’s Nest on Sept. 4 on the evolution of the student center project, university system officials disputed the accuracy of statements made by a former USF St. Petersburg administrator and the students that helped lobby for the building’s creation. “President Genshaft wanted this,” said former Student President James Scott,
For the first time since the university was founded in 1965, USF St. Petersburg will have a dining hall. The university signed a five-year, once-renewable contract with food service giant Sodexo in April, and has been making the pitch to incoming and returning students and their parents over the summer. The most controversial aspect of
A home for the College of Business came one step closer to realization on July 5 with the selection of local architecture firm Harvard Jolly to design the building. The proposed $27.5 million project has been designated the top construction priority of the USF system. If everything goes to plan, the building could be occupied
During the long, draining political battle to create a campus community center at USF St. Petersburg, the students who lobbied on behalf of their peers were faced with a choice: go along with the demands of USF system leadership, or lose everything. It was made clear to them, said the student lobbyists, that without a
With the opening of the University Student Center, students can meet, eat, study and sleep in what is destined to become the center of campus life while taking pride in their sacrifices that turned a 37-year-old dream into a concrete reality. The opening is especially sweet for the four current and former students who put
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