Amid the stock market rout and federal bailouts, it's not just geopolitical economics on the minds of two deans of area business schools. In interviews, both Tampa's USF College of Business dean Robert Forsythe and University of Tampa Sykes School of Business dean Frank Ghannadian both echoed two impacts here of the current financial turmoil. First, more students are struggling to pay their tuition and living expenses because of tighter credit conditions and — more painfully — the increasing likelihood that a mom or dad has lost their job recently. Forsythe mentions USF's recent "Don't Stop, Don't Drop" campaign to encourage students to talk to the university about financial pressures.
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