USF Sarasota-Manatee chancellor announces retirement

Karen Holbrook, the regional chancellor of the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, has announced she will retire at the end of the year.

"Joining USF Sarasota-Manatee has been a treasured experience, made meaningful by our dedicated students, faculty and staff who bring our campus values to life,” Holbrook says in a news release.

Since her appointment in 2018, Holbrook led the campus through significant growth, including becoming a residential campus for the first time with the opening of the new Student Center and Atala Residence Hall this fall; receiving the largest gift in campus history with the naming of the Baldwin Group School of Risk Management and Insurance in 2022; and developing many important partnerships across the community.