PLANT CITY - Second-grade teacher Leigh Burdette and kindergarten aide Rhonda Locker went lip to snout with a pig today to raise money for charity. ...more

February 22, 2008

Shawn Bull, 34, brings youth, enthusiasm and the joy of creating palatable treats to the culinary arts program at South County Career Center. ...more

February 6, 2008

Shawn Bull, 34, brings youth, enthusiasm and the joy of creating palatable treats to the culinary arts program at South County Career Center. ...more

February 4, 2008

The state's university oversight board today ordered its schools to begin cutting enrollment as a budget deficit threatens the quality of higher education in Florida. ...more

January 24, 2008

After claims by the wife of a University of South Florida football star that she did her husband's online coursework, the university is asking faculty leaders to study how to better protect the academic integrity of such courses. ...more

January 11, 2008

A poorly administered online course and sloppy oversight of "one rogue tutor" combined to "contaminate" a class in which as many as 50 student-athletes may be penalized for cheating, Florida State University President T.K. Wetherell said Friday. ...more

December 22, 2007

A Polk County elementary school principal was arrested Friday after investigators found him in possession of pictures that electronically superimposed faces of young girls onto images of bodies of childlike naked women, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. ...more

December 21, 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

Ralph Wilcox, the University of South Florida vice provost who for years has been the bridge between USF and the state's higher education establishment, was named the university's provost Wednesday. ...more

November 8, 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