University of South Florida moves farther south

Posted Aug 24, 2010 by Lindsay Peterson

Updated Aug 24, 2010 at 10:59 PM

About 250 students started classes at a new USF campus in North Port on Monday, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports.

It’s a relocation from its South Sarasota County site on the State College of Florida campus in Venice.

Students are taking more than 630 classes in a variety of subjects, including psychology, criminology and business.

For a while “buzz has circulated about expansion, perhaps even a standalone campus in coming years,” the story says.

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