When Universities Run Schools ... Into the Ground by Elizabeth Redden In the 1990s, a number of universities got into the business of running charter schools, with compelling plans to match the vast intellectual resources of their faculty with the educational and social service needs of impoverished communities. A decade later, the University of South Florida has given up and transferred control of the failing USF Patel Charter School to the local school district last week. Inside HIgher Education, 8/7/2008