By Nancy McCann The USF Board of Trustees will be asked on March 5 to approve a plan and timetable to consolidate the three campuses of the university system. The
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By Nancy McCann In a stinging put-down of St. Petersburg, the Faculty Senate in Tampa has urged the USF system Board of Trustees to oppose making St. Petersburg and Sarasota-Manatee
By Nancy McCann A bill designed to clarify that USF St. Petersburg will become a branch campus once the USF system is consolidated has been filed in the Legislature. The
By Nancy McCann When the Legislature passed a law last year to phase out the independent accreditations of USF St. Petersburg and USF Sarasota-Manatee, it came with a mandate to
By Nancy McCann A key piece of the complex puzzle called consolidation planning will click into place this week. On Feb. 12, the Consolidation Task Force will present its recommendations
By Nancy McCann and Whitney Elfstrom Two influential state legislators who helped torpedo the university’s independent accreditation last year now say that St. Petersburg should become a branch campus when
By Nancy McCann The biggest benefactor in the university’s history has done it again. Retired entrepreneur Kate Tiedemann and her partner, Ellen Cotton, have pledged $3 million to endow the
By Nancy McCann Ray Arsenault left a tenure-track position at the University of Minnesota in 1980 to come to St. Petersburg and teach at a tiny school that townspeople called
By Nancy McCann and Amy Diaz Seeking to allay the concerns of St. Petersburg faculty, USF system President Judy Genshaft says it “clearly has not been decided” how the campus
By Nancy McCann It is, says professor Ray Arsenault, “the elephant in the room.” When the three campuses of the USF system are consolidated in 2020, St. Petersburg will lose