After a USF student petition received more than 7,000 signatures online, the signees’ wishes have been granted. Vice President of Student Success​ Paul Dosal announced Wednesday in an email that USF will offer students the option of taking a satisfactory or unsatisfactory (pass/fail) grade for the spring semester. But students […]

Last Wednesday, USF President Steven Currall announced the university’s first positive coronavirus (COVID-19) case. Today, he announced the third and fourth. The systemwide email said it was an employee from Innovative Education and a student who was traveling abroad, both from the Tampa campus.  The student is not a risk […]

The 60th Student Government (SG) Senate met remotely for the first time Tuesday, with over 40 senators lining the conference call anywhere from back porches to bedroom desks.  Nonetheless, they got the work done.  Communicating via the videoconferencing website Zoom, senators discussed how they would effectively handle and distribute $17 […]

Even though the USF Counseling Center had USF’s first positive coronavirus (COVID-19) case, its operations are still up and running, remotely. With the university implementing remote instruction for the remainder of the semester, all mental health services offered by the Counseling Center are provided entirely online.  However, this was not […]

The Florida Board of Governors’ decision to switch to online classes for the rest of the spring semester has sparked the creation of two petitions that have drawn a variety of responses from students on social media.  The petitions have been posted to a couple of USF Facebook pages. They […]

As students prepare to close out the final six weeks of the spring semester, some heavy adjustments will need to be made.  Today, all classes shift from face-to-face to remote instruction due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.  Students can access the online “Toolkit,” which contains information and resources on how […]

It is not the typical first week back from spring break.  Classrooms are empty, dorms are not filled to capacity and the population on campus is dwindling all because of the unprecedented isolation the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has demanded. Students will begin remote coursework today and this will be the […]

As more coronavirus cases are identified across Florida, students reacted with mixed opinions on USF’s decision to transition to remote coursework following spring break. The transition was announced after the Florida Board of Governors mandated Wednesday afternoon that all state universities implement remote coursework “effective immediately.” As a way to […]

These stories are a part of a continuing series that features women leaders at USF during Women’s History Month. A rocket can travel around 20 times faster than the speed of sound — almost as quick as third-year physics major Madison Kozee works around the clock. Kozee is Chief of […]