The Sierra Club and the Pinellas Community Foundation are launching a public appeal to raise about $2 million to close a funding gap and purchase the Gladys Douglas-Hackworth Preserve in Dunedin for $10 million.
2020 has been a transformative year for the University of South Florida’s St. Petersburg campus. In July, the small waterfront school joined its counterparts in Sarasota-Manatee and Tampa under a single accreditation. At the same time, the university was faced with significant budget cuts and challenged to up its declining enrollment in 2021 while dealing with the unprecedented impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.