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Is USF a "commuter school" - and how does that term affect you?

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We need an OCS and Genshaft should be FIRED!

Man those must be the truest words ever post to this board

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It's a slight.  A put down.  An attempt to devalue the school.   It irks me.   Joey Knight's use of it in the article the other day reflected poorly on him.

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USF is a commuter school....     Commuter schools have lower graduation rates.       JK was right.

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I wonder who will take the bait on your diet-smazza troll attempt.

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The lack of student attendance at both football and basketball games also contributes to the commuter school image.  

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I really haven't heard USF being called a commuter school in awhile..I think that image is being shed.

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USF is a large modern university in a big metro area/setting...by design it serves many students who commute.  There are some small people who like to fling the 'commuter school' slur at USF...ignore them.  Maybe 6000 students live on USF's campus about same as 'destination' schools like FSU and UF.  I think more students at USF-Tampa are from Broward county than Tampa Bay's own Pinellas county.  USF today isn't Daddy's commuter school like 40 years ago.

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Does this mean that we're thru with nothing?

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USF is a large modern university in a big metro area/setting...by design it serves many students who commute.  There are some small people who like to fling the 'commuter school' slur at USF...ignore them.  Maybe 6000 students live on USF's campus about same as 'destination' schools like FSU and UF.  I think more students at USF-Tampa are from Broward county than Tampa Bay's own Pinellas county.  USF today isn't Daddy's commuter school like 40 years ago.

 

Agree... commuter school to those people just means "school that isn't in the middle of nowhere." I am hard pressed to think of any school in a major urban area that wouldn't meet some reasonable definition of "commuter school."

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So Joey could say "major metropolitan university" instead of "commuter school"?

We're just trying to help the unenlightened.

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Meh, too old to worry about this ****. My degree sits above my desk, I have a very comfortable life and USF played a significant role in helping me reach my professional goals.

Same here.

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So Joey could say "major metropolitan university" instead of "commuter school"?

We're just trying to help the unenlightened.

but that probably wouldn't have made him chuckle when he wrote it, like, I'm guessing, the "commuter" comment did

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