Faculty and Staff Annual Campaign Opens Website

Now is your opportunity to make a difference by donating to scholarships and other worthwhile USF St. Petersburg projects. Now you can donate via the web.

Faculty and Staff Annual Campaign supports priorities that are important to the USF community... that support areas vital to USF St. Petersburg's academic growth and prosperity.

Support areas that offer our campus and community the opportunity to share in broad and varied intellectual experiences. Faculty and Staff Scholarships, the Library and University Lectureships are just some of the areas that help to provide those experiences. Or, you can designate your gift to an area of your own special interest, please search the other giving priorities and funds listed at the campaign website: http://isis.fastmail.usf.edu/fscc/

Since its inception in 1973, the Faculty and Staff Campaign Drive has raised more than $3.2 million and Campaign Coordinators Ron Bugg and Mark Wilson ask that you help continue this successful tradition.

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I am USF St Petersburg: Ryan Schumann

Ryan Schumann, a COE student majoring in Elementary Education came to the St. Petersburg area from Philadelphia, PA. He was attracted to the program because of the “good things he heard about it and its faculty.” Interestingly, Ryan was a member of the Innovations Percussion ensemble, which won the 1995 World Championship in Percussion awarded by the Winter Guard International Organization. His specialty is marching percussion and cymbals. It is his love for music and this talent that he wishes to utilize with intermediate grade school children when he becomes a classroom teacher.

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USF St. Petersburg Cares

Last Saturday March 6, 25 campus volunteers assisted at the Special Olympics Area 6 Summer Games at Lakewood High School.

The volunteers organized track events, helping with staging, time-keeping, hugging and award presentation. More than 250 developmentally disabled athletes from Pinellas, Pasco, Hernando, and Citrus counties participated.

The USFSP volunteer group was the largest group involved and included staff, students, alumni and family members.

Our campus will clean the Tierra Verde Beach from 9am to 11am as part of the National Great American Cleanup, on Saturday March 20. Families invited! Contact Barry McDowell, mcdowell@stpt.usf.edu. if interested.

Business Hosts Noted Ethicist

Last week the Program for Social Responsibility and Corporate Reporting, a Program of Distinction, welcomed renowned business ethics scholar Robert E. Frederick, PhD, to campus. Frederick is the Assistant Director of the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College , and served as three-time chairperson at the Center for Business Ethics' national conference.

Frederick is the co-author of nine books and numerous articles on business and environmental ethics. While on campus, he met with faculty and MBA students from the Corporate Social Responsibility class to discuss future plans for the Center for Business Ethics, as well as his current papers and teaching experiences.

The Program for Social Responsibility and Corporate Reporting frequently brings in speakers from both academic and corporate institutions to discuss ethical corporate behavior. The next class will explore the implications of the Martha Stewart controversy.

Ripped from the headlines, our business students will be debating the Martha Stewart controversy to be sure another corporate V.I.P. doesn't appear on the horizon. Next Tuesday at 6 pm, you are welcome to join a Corporate Social Responsibility class to discuss the events, her alleged complicity and our responsibility as citizens. If you would like to attend, please contact Ron Hill, dean of the college of business.

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