Starting in January, Florida's public university students will pay 5 percent more in tuition. Members of the state university oversight board will consider proposals on where the money will go when they meet in Orlando over the next two days. The $9.5 million universities will generate, however, will do little to curb the larger class sizes students found when the school year started. Budget cuts have cost USF about $12 million. Its share of the tuition increase: about $1.4 million. "It's going to help, but it comes nowhere close to backfilling the loss of funds," said USF Provost Ralph Wilcox. ...more

December 5, 2007

As University of South Florida officials work toward their goal of national prominence, they will have to do so without their sought-after second-in-command. ...more

October 16, 2007

A group of students at a Washington high school for the deaf scrawled 'KKK' and swastikas on a black student's body with a marker while holding him against his will, police said Wednesday. ...more

October 4, 2007

Facing possible NCAA sanctions for an academic-fraud scandal involving 23 student-athletes, Florida State University has made changes within its Office of Athletics Academic Support Services. ...more

September 28, 2007