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RSS FeedNeighborhood News Bureau, a required course for mass communications students, is undergoing a makeover. Lane Degregory, a 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner and Tampa Bay Times reporter, is returning to USF St. Petersburg to guide students in experiential reporting. Students are scheduled to attend a city council meeting at the Gulfport City Hall and explore breaking
A university is like an island. It’s budding with resources, but the resources are immobile; landlocked. It’s Dr. Amy Kedron’s goal to get her students off the island. Through her course, Community Leadership and Nonprofit Organizations, Kedron connects USF St. Petersburg students with local businesses and organizations, giving them opportunities to lead and promote development
Lacking an official math department, students and faculty are working to enhance teaching styles and increase passing rates It took Caitlin Greene, a senior majoring in marketing, five attempts to pass two USF St. Petersburg math courses — three at college algebra and two at business calculus. The struggle set her back a year
After three years of involvement with USF St. Petersburg’s Student Government, senior Lauren Reilly resigned from her position as Chief Financial Officer. Though Reilly’s decision was driven mostly by the desire to focus on her studies, she also felt her SG position was in jeopardy due to her personal views. Reilly said she experienced discomfort
Student clubs and organizations requesting funding from Student Government will now go through a new outlet intended to prioritize the needs of students over university departments. During finals week, SG passed a bill that created the Senate Committee on Special Funding, splitting the responsibility between the existing appropriations committee and the new committee. In past
Excess money in meal plan accounts will not roll over to next semester
After seven years of teaching USF St. Petersburg students to serve as citizen scholars, Dr. Judithanne Scourfield McLauchlan, 45, stepped into politics as a candidate for state senate. “When I see what’s happening in our state government and federal government, I felt like now was the time for me to get involved in this campaign,”
Monica Mion Cook, a USF College of Marine Science student, is on a mission to improve water quality
After 41 years with USF, Sandi Conway, director of Human Resources at USF St. Petersburg, is saying goodbye to bull country. “I think I worked there when Asia was still connected to Africa or something,” Conway said, jokingly. She began working at USF Tampa straight out of high school as a secretary in Student Affairs.
The pool at the USF St. Petersburg Waterfront closes every year for the winter season. But this year, when the pool closes on Nov. 27, it will not reopen in the spring. Plumbing problems have plagued the pool since a leak was detected five years ago. Water from the pool has been spilling into the
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