The nation's busiest VA hospital doesn't lack resources or staff. What the James A. Haley VA Medical Center lacks is space, officials say - space for parking, space for more treatment area and space for more beds. ...more

December 5, 2007

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

University of South Florida freshmen who live outside the Tampa Bay area would have to live in a campus residence hall under a plan that got preliminary approval from USF trustees Tuesday. ...more

November 7, 2007

Events are on the University of South Florida's Tampa campus, except as noted. Monday ...more

October 28, 2007

University of South Florida leaders are overhauling their campus safety efforts amid mounting criticism that they're failing to do enough. ...more

October 27, 2007

What do Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Fidel Castro and four current Hillsborough County commissioners have in common? ...more

October 26, 2007

TAMPA - What do Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Fidel Castro and four current Hillsborough County commissioners have in common? Their likenesses all appear in an ad the Tampa Bay Community Network plans to air this weekend to raise money for a legal fund. The network is suing Hillsborough County over its decision to cut $355,000 in spending for the station from this year's budget. The network has prepared at least three fundraising ads for the court fight. The most hard-hitting is an ad that opens with images of Hitler, Stalin and Castro and then fades to pictures of the four county commissioners who voted to kill the station's stipend. ...more

October 25, 2007

Car-less University of South Florida students could get an alternative to their usual transportation choices - walking, riding bicycles and taking buses - under a program that's showing up at campuses nationwide. ...more

October 15, 2007

TAMPA - Car-less University of South Florida students could get an alternative to their usual transportation choices - walking, riding bicycles and taking buses - under a program that's showing up at campuses nationwide. ...more

October 14, 2007

TAMPA - About 1,000 free student tickets remain for Saturday's University of South Florida football game against cross-state rival University of Central Florida. ...more

October 11, 2007