{"id":311076,"date":"2026-06-17T23:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T23:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/311076\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T23:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T23:18:06","slug":"usf-trustees-elect-mike-griffin-as-board-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/311076\/","title":{"rendered":"USF trustees elect Mike Griffin as board chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 17, 2026 &#8211; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usf.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">University of South Florida<\/a> Board of Trustees unanimously elected Mike Griffin as chair for a two-year term Wednesday, making the USF alumnus and former student body president the first person to hold both leadership roles. Griffin, a vice chairman at Savills who previously chaired the university\u2019s presidential search committees, succeeds Will Weatherford, who stepped down as chair but remains on the board. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usf.edu\/board-of-trustees\/about\/trustees.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Trustees<\/a> also elected longtime business leader Oscar Horton, president and CEO of Sun State International, as vice chair.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 17, 2026 &#8211; The University of South Florida Board of Trustees unanimously elected Mike Griffin as chair&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-311076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}