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USF President Judy Genshaft Discusses Proposed State Senate Cuts to Universities

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Tags: USF, Judy Genshaft, budget cuts, J.D. Alexander, Florida Senate, Florida House

Good afternoon, welcome to radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up we'll talk about proposed state budget cuts to the University of South Florida. The AP is reporting: " The Florida Senate is planning to consider a nearly $70.8 billion budget.

 A Senate budget panel will take up the proposal when it meets later today.
 The Senate budget is coming under fire because it includes $400

million in cuts to the state's 11 public universities, including a large cut to the University o...

USF faculty union president warns of consequences of rush to create new university in Polk County

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Tags: USF, Polytechnic Lakeland, Paul Terry, J.D. Alexander, Florida Legislature, Florida Senate

In Tallahassee two unexpected proposals from the past week are posing challenges to the University of South Florida in Tampa. The first was unveiled a week ago in the state Senate--- it was a bill to immediately create Florida Polytechnic University - a new, completely independent school in Lakeland. The University would separate from USF and the new entity would assume control of all the assets. It would hire a brand new faculty and so far- there’s no definitive word on what this new univers...

Last Call with state Senator Paula Dockery

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Tags: Paula Dockery, Rick Scott, J.D. Alexander

Polk County area GOP state Senator Paula Dockery was out guest for the entire hour, where we discussed USF Polytechnic, illegal immigration, transportation, education, gambling and other issues that the Legislature will deal with in 2012.