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The Bob Graham Center for Public Service provides a wide variety of programs for students and the larger public on topics related to public service, public leadership and civic engagement.

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2018 Election Wrap-Up

Two of Florida's most prominent political commentators, Susan MacManus and Dan Smith, discussed the results and implications of the 2018 midterm election at the Bob Graham Center on Tuesday, Nov. 13 at 6 p.m. in Pugh Hall Ocora. Susan MacManus is a distinguished professor emeritus at USF and is a member of the Bob Graham

Son of Real Florida: Stories from my Life

Jeff Klinkenberg hates Florida Man. At least, he hates the hashtag. “Klink,” who spent four decades covering Florida culture for the Tampa Bay Times, says #FloridaMan is a fake, a distraction from what real Florida Men and Florida Women value about our state – and from the work ahead to better this beautiful, flawed place. For nearly

Election of 2018: What’s At Stake

The 2018 election may well be the most momentous midterm contest in decades.  On Oct. 26 at 6 p.m. in the Pugh Hall Ocora, Glenn Altschuler, dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions, and The Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies at Cornell University, set the context of the election,