USF Magazine Fall 2011

Volume 53 | Number 3

Spotlight

Student Success

Working to Learn

| USF News

For Jenna Withrow, working on campus has provided more than a paycheck. It's provided real-world experience and the opportunity to discover a passion.

Withrow, a senior mass communications major, is a social media intern in the Office of University Communications & Marketing. She's one of about 3,000 USF students who work on campus and the experience she is having is the kind of experience the Division of Human Resources is working to create campus-wide.

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World Class

| USF News

When USF launched its School of Global Sustainability in early 2010, it was a venture aimed at rewriting the rules of academic programs, preparing students for an emerging field and confronting some of the world's great global challenges.

In August, a dozen students graduated with USF's first Master of Arts degree in Global Sustainability. They traveled the world exploring different facets of "green" and what can be done to make the most of limited resources.

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Top Scholars

27

USF ranks 27th among "America's Top Research Universities," a ranking of 600 universities.

110

USF ranks 110th among all of the world's universities in a ranking of faculty publications — "High Impact Universities, 2010."