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Claywell Elementary School, Hillsborough County

A curriculum project entitled "Reading into Florida’s Past" seeks to fulfill School District of Hillsborough County mandate to teach Florida Studies, to meet specific social studies knowledge expectations for fourth-grade students, and to improve overall reading and writing scores by • Increasing teachers’ subject knowledge and teaching effectiveness. • Increasing student performance in meeting social studies curriculum expectations. • Increasing student performance on FCAT non-fiction reading and expository writing tests. • Assisting teachers develop new and innovative lesson plans. • Increasing students’ retention of knowledge, use and understanding of technology, and creativity. • Tracking student performance, teaching effectiveness, and teacher satisfaction and retention.

Florida Humanities Council

Together, the Florida Studies Center and Florida Humanities Council cosponsor a wide variety of public lectures and discussions and an annual Florida Center for Teachers summer seminar. Past collaborations include the three-day conference entitled "A Sunshine State of Mind: Florida's Place in the Americas" and a Florida Conversation event with Michael Grunwald entitled "The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise."

Florida Studies Program, University of South Florida St. Petersburg

Upon its creation as a Program of Distinction on the USF St. Petersburg campus in 2003, the Florida Studies Program has offered a Master of Liberal Arts in Florida Studies. In support of their complimentary missions, the Florida Studies Program in St. Petersburg and Florida Studies Center in Tampa cosponsor public programs and offer financial assistance to graduate students engaged in thesis research or wishing to present a paper at a professional conference.

Fundacion Archivo de Indianos, Asturias, Spain

In August 2002, The Fundacion Archivo de Indianos and University of South Florida Library System signed a general agreement of cooperation to advance the study of Asturian emigration to America and the lives of Asturian immigrants in Tampa. The agreement provides for the reciprocal exchange of archival materials, offers long-term loan of duplicates of original materials, exchanges published works on Asturians in Spain and the U.S., and creates and promotes joint cultural activities and exhibitions. Over the last several years, the Fundacion and USF Library System have visited each other's institutions, participated together in a conference on Asturian-American migration, and exchanged collections and monographs. In May 2007 Florida Studies Center director Mark Greenberg led a USF faculty development program in Asturias to engage with Asturian scholars. The North American premier of an exhibition on four generations of the Alvarez family, Asturian immigrants to the United States, will open in the USF Tampa Library in October 2007.

Tampa Bay History Center

With expertise from faculty across campus, the TBHC-USF relationship has borne fruit over the last number of years. A World War II exhibition and accompanying book, Hillsborough County Goes to War by USF history professor Gary Mormino, received high praise from the community when it debuted in 2002. The Florida Conversations lecture series has offered more than two dozen programs dealing with Florida arts and humanities subjects at locations throughout the Tampa Bay region. Other collaborative efforts include Hillsborough County History Fair, museum internships, exhibition research and planning, and the local history journal Tampa Bay History.

University Press of Florida

Through a formal partnership, the Florida Studies Center and University Press of Florida publish one title each year in UPF's Florida History and Culture Series. Past titles include Land of Sunshine, State of Dream by Gary R. Mormino, Floridian of His Century: The Courage of Governor LeRoy Collins by Martin A. Dyckman, and Weeki Wachee, City of Mermaids: A History of One of Florida's Oldest Roadside Attractions by Lu Vickers and Sara Dionne. The next joint publication, scheduled for release in October 2007, is From Yellow Dog Democrats to Red State Republicans: Florida and Its Politics since 1940 by David R. Colburn.

Ybor City Museum Society

The Florida Studies Center, collaborating with the USF Tampa Library's Special Collections Department and Ybor City Museum Society, supports public programs and exhibitions at facilities on the USF Tampa campus and in Ybor City.