Founded in 1956, the University of South Florida (USF) is a major public research university with status as a Preeminent Research University as designated by the Florida Board of Governors. USF is “One University: Geographically Distributed” comprised of three campuses: Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Sarasota-Manatee. All three campuses serve more than 48,000 students and house 13 colleges. The Patel College of Global Sustainability (PCGS) is the newest degree-granting college at USF. The mission of PCGS is achieving sustainable development, both locally and globally, by fostering social, economic and environmental sustainability. The University of South Florida is classified as Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Collectively, USF has an annual economic impact of $6.02 billion statewide. It has an annual budget of $2 billion and its endowment is valued at $637 million. USF faculty are distinguished for their election as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), with 6 Fellows named in 2022 (placing USF among organizations worldwide with the highest numbers of Fellows elected annually), bringing USF’s total AAAS Fellows to ninety-four. The USF library holds over 2.8 million volumes and more than 115,000 serials. There are five libraries in total that are spread across the three campuses. All three campuses can enjoy the benefits of the Judy Genshaft Honors College. In 2023, USF became the first public university in Florida in nearly 40 years to be invited to join the Association of American Universities (AAU), a prestigious group of the leading universities in the United States and Canada.