From Jim,
If the person is interested in budget information at the college, departmental, or office level, they can request that information from the USF budget office. It is a matter of public record. All they need to say is they want the information under "Chapter 119, Laws of Florida." Of course, one trend that many of us have witnessed as more information is done online and less is available by paper (think of faculty reviews that used to be available to students) is that institutions make it difficult for people to locate information.
Fortunately, there is a new database portal available through tbo.com (publishers of the Tampa Tribune), that includes salary information for individuals. This will be very helpful to share with people who wish to know salary information of any public employees who work for the state, as well as many public agencies in the Tampa Bay area (including USF).
They should visit:
http://www2.tbo.com/static/news-special-reports-data-bay/tbo-special-reports-database-hillsborough-salaries/
Then they can enter the name, or partial name. If it's a common name, they can limit information to the University of South Florida by clicking on the drop box. One caveat: the salary information seems to include only funds from public sources. For example, Jim Leavitt--the USF football coach--is listed with a compensation of $750,000. Of course, his contract with guaranteed endorsements, etc., pushes him up around $1.5 million.
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Monday, August 10, 2009
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Tampa Bay demographics
Dear Colleagues:
I rarely pass around copies of our special collections finding aids because they often target “my usual suspects” (history, Am studies, and Fla studies). However, I have a collection that may be of broader interest to students in business administration or business management. In the old library, we used to maintain a vertical file of market surveys and research conducted by the St. Petersburg Times. These reports were kept in large red binders and were very clunky but useful.
We have kept some of the most important marketing research materials from these surveys as a distinct (and compact) collection in my area. Here’s a brief description:
The various reports and profiles residing in this collection offer an excellent account of commercial, demographic, media-related, and transportation trends in the Tampa Bay region. Some data sets examined individual municipalities or counties, while other sets included information about Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSAs) or Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) of Florida.
Materials in this collection include summaries of surveys, charts, and statistical information about residents and visitors to the Suncoast. Items reside in folders arranged into seven broad subject series: Business/Retail, Demographics, Economics/Finance, Media, Real Estate, Transportation, and Travel. The bulk of the collection covers the period from 1978 through 1997, though a few items include quantitative information from earlier years (from 1960 forward).
So, the next time a student needs to develop datasets for topics such as Pari-mutuel wagering trends, household growth in Florida, or television channels usually watched in western Pasco County in the late 1980s that may not be found in other sources (Florida Statistical Abstract, census), please send them my way!
JIM
I rarely pass around copies of our special collections finding aids because they often target “my usual suspects” (history, Am studies, and Fla studies). However, I have a collection that may be of broader interest to students in business administration or business management. In the old library, we used to maintain a vertical file of market surveys and research conducted by the St. Petersburg Times. These reports were kept in large red binders and were very clunky but useful.
We have kept some of the most important marketing research materials from these surveys as a distinct (and compact) collection in my area. Here’s a brief description:
The various reports and profiles residing in this collection offer an excellent account of commercial, demographic, media-related, and transportation trends in the Tampa Bay region. Some data sets examined individual municipalities or counties, while other sets included information about Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSAs) or Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) of Florida.
Materials in this collection include summaries of surveys, charts, and statistical information about residents and visitors to the Suncoast. Items reside in folders arranged into seven broad subject series: Business/Retail, Demographics, Economics/Finance, Media, Real Estate, Transportation, and Travel. The bulk of the collection covers the period from 1978 through 1997, though a few items include quantitative information from earlier years (from 1960 forward).
So, the next time a student needs to develop datasets for topics such as Pari-mutuel wagering trends, household growth in Florida, or television channels usually watched in western Pasco County in the late 1980s that may not be found in other sources (Florida Statistical Abstract, census), please send them my way!
JIM
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