State University System of Florida

State University System of Florida
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The State University System of Florida (SUS, or SUSF out-of-state) is a system of universities
indirectly governed by the State of Florida. From 1905 to 1965, the few universities in the
system were governed by the Florida Board of Control. This was replaced by the Florida Board
of Regents in 1965, to accommodate the growing university system. The Board of Regents
governed until it was disbanded in 2001, and its authority was divided Florida Board of
Education (which was given some authority over all levels of public education in the state),
and appointed Boards of Trustees, which operated independently for each separate
institution. In 2002, Floridians led by Senator Bob Graham passed an amendment to the state
constitution establishing a new statewide governing body, the Florida Board of Governors.
SUS Institutions
The year the university was founded, followed by the year first classes were held, are in
parentheses.
    •   Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida (1887)
    •   Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida (1961, 1964)
    •   Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida (1991, 1997)
    •   Florida International University, Miami, Florida (1965, 1972)
    •   Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida (1851 as Florida Seminary West of the
        Suwannee, 1901 as Florida State College for Women and 1947 as FSU)
    •   New College of Florida, Sarasota, Florida (1960 as a private college. Merged into USF's
        system in 1975, gained independence in 2001)
    •   University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida (1963, 1968)
    •   University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (1853 (official), 1905 (actual), 1906 (first class))
    •   University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida (1969, 1972)
    •   University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida (1956, 1960)
    •   University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida (1963, 1967 for upper grades, 1983 for all
        four years)

Florida State University
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Motto           Vires, artes, mores                 Florida State University, also commonly referred
                (Latin: Strength, skill, customs)
                                                    to as "FSU" or "Florida State", is a
Established     1851
School type     Public                              comprehensive, graduate-national research
President       T. K. Wetherell                     university founded and located in Tallahassee,
Location        Tallahassee, Florida, USA           Florida in 1851. Its president is Dr. T. K. Wetherell.
Enrollment      30,015 undergraduate,
                                                    The university is composed of 17 colleges and
                7,456 graduate
Faculty         2,054                               institutes that offer more than 300 programs of
Endowment       US$443+ million                     study. FSU is well-known for its programs in
Campus          448.3 acres (1.88 km²)              Business, Creative Writing, Evolutionary Biology,
Nickname        Seminoles
Mascot          Chief Osceola and Renegade          Dance, Film, Music, Hospitality, Information
Colors          garnet and gold                     Studies, and Meteorology.
Website         www.fsu.edu

Campus
Florida State's main campus is located in Tallahassee near the Florida State Capitol building.
Florida State also maintains two additional campuses in Panama City and Sarasota.
Additionally, Florida State operates an overseas branch campus with degree programs in the
Republic of Panama.
In addition to the branch campuses, the university offers a variety of overseas study
opportunities for students during the regular academic year, as well as in special summer
programs. FSU operates study centers fore overseas study oppare located in Florence, Italy;
Republic of Panama; Valencia, Spain; and London, England.
The university is home to the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, funded by the National
Science Foundation. Other research centers, such as the Center for Advanced Power
Systems, supported by the Office of Naval Research, place the university at the cutting edge
of research and its application to industry.
The Ringling Museum in Sarasota is affiliated with the university, and is the largest
museum/university complex in the U.S. and houses one of the most significant collections of
fine art in North America.
Academics
Florida State University has leading graduate, undergraduate, and professional programs that
include Law and Medicine.
In the 2006 U.S. News & World Report of Best Colleges, Florida State was ranked 51st (from
54th in 2005) among all public research universities in the U.S, and is ranked 109th (up from
111 in 2005) among all national universities.
The fully accredited College of Medicine is the first new M.D. program to be established in the
United States since 1982. It is charting a new course for medical education with an emphasis
on the use of interdisciplinary teams and emerging new technology. Created in June of 2000
by the Florida Legislature, its mission is educating physicians to serve the state's rural, geriatric,
minority and other medically underserved populations. The medical school's regional
campuses are in Tallahassee, Pensacola, Jacksonville, Orlando, Sarasota, and Ft. Myers.
The Florida State University College of Law has jumped 11 slots to 56th in the latest edition of
the influential national rankings of law schools by U.S. News & World Report. The magazine's

2006 edition of America's Best Graduate Schools also ranks the College of Law as one of the
most diverse in the country. Environmental Law Program Ranks 14th in Nation. Hispanic
Business Magazine has ranked the College of Law among the top 10 law schools in the nation
for Hispanics for the second consecutive year. Hispanics made up 9 percent of the school's
748-member student body and received 11 percent of the 205 law degrees awarded to the
class of 2004.
The College of Business has consistently been ranked one of the Top 40 undergraduate
business schools by U.S. News & World Report at 38th. Among public universalities it is in the
Top 25. and the program has grown to be one of the nation's ten largest. The college is a
recognized leader in graduating minority doctoral candidates. The college earned a fourth-
place spot in the Black Issues' Top 100, for its success in awarding the doctorate in business to
African Americans. In the Academy of Management Journal the college's programs in
Management Information Systems was ranked 15th and is the highest ranked MIS program in
the State of Florida. The college also offers online MBA programs.
The Dedman School of Hospitality is in the College of Business at FSU. Based on input from
industry representatives, hospitality management business component of the program is what
attracts companies to FSU students, as a result the school boasts a consistent 100% job
placement record. The Dedman School of Hospitality also offers a major in Professional Golf
Management, one of seventeen programs nationwide accredited by The Professional
Golfers' Association of America (PGA), to prepare students to meet these challenges. The
state of Florida has more golf courses than any other state in the country and is the
headquarters for the PGA, LPGA, PGA Tour, and National Golf Foundation amd FSU has a
long, distinguished history of graduating professional golfers and educating students for
business and hospitality operations.
FSU's Computer Science program is the only Florida school that is a National Center of
Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAE/IAE) by the National Security
Agency. Its peers includes schools such as the nation's first computer science school at
Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This designation is
attained through a competitive process that evaluates the school's ability to meet rigorous
standards for information assurance education.
The College of Information's programs in Information Studies/Technology is one of the most
respected and consistantly top-ranked programs in the nation and has held such rankings for
many years in the U.S. News & World Report. The program tied for 12th, the School Library
Media program ranked 2nd and the Services for Children and Youth specialization program
tied for 2nd. The college has the largest online MLS program in the nation. According to the
Tallahassee Democrat newspaper, the undergraduate program in Information Technology is
sprouting in popularity.
The School of Theatre is one of the leading comprehensive theatre training programs in the
United States. U.S. News and World Report has consistently included FSU's graduate theatre
programs in its top-tier rankings in the top-10, one of the few public university programs thus
honored. The School is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Theatre and is a
founding member of the University/Resident Theatre Association.
Many of FSU's other academic programs consistently rank among the nation’s top twenty-five
public universities, including programs in Chemistry, Creative Writing, Criminology, Dance,
Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Film, Meteorology, Music, Oceanography, Physics, Political
Science, Psychology, Public Policy, Statistics, and Sociology.

The Taxol Story
A signifigant achievement at the university was chemistry professsor and synthetic organic
chemist, Dr. Robert A. Holton's synthesizing of Taxol on Dec. 9, 1993. The chemical has been
used as an effective breast and ovarian cancer treatment.
Holton's and his Organic Chemistry team finished a race to develop a cheaper semisynthetic
version. In 1993 Bristol Myers Squibb began marketing it. Just like other chemotherapy drugs, it
had side effects. But it also prolonged lives and in many cases defeated cancer.
Before the drug company's exclusive license expired, Florida State made $350 million in
royalties, vaulting the school into the ranks of Columbia University and California's state
universities in research profits.
Enrollment
Fall 2005 enrollment is 39,218 students. Women account for 56.7% of FSU's enrollment.
Minorities made up 24.2% percent of total enrollment. 47.8% of the minority enrollment was
Black, 38.6% Hispanic, 12.0% Asian, and 1.6% was American Indian.
According to the Tallahassee Democrat, the average SAT for the Fall 2005 class is 1209. The
Fall 2004 class had an SAT average of 1199.
Departments
Bachelors, master's, specialist's, doctoral, and professional degree programs are offered
through the College of Arts & Sciences; the College of Business; the College of
Communication; the College of Education; the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, jointly
administered with Florida A&M University; the College of Human Sciences; the College of
Law; the College of Medicine; the College of Social Sciences; the School of Criminology &
Criminal Justice; the School of Motion Picture, Television & Recording Arts (Film School); the
College of Information; the College of Music; the School of Nursing; the College of Social
Work; and the School of Theatre, Visual Arts & Dance.
Facilities
    •  Donald L. Tucker Center
    •  Bobby E. Leach Recreation Center
    •  Westcott Building
    •  FSU is home to a pair of cutting edge nuclear resonance magnets that are used for
       theoretical physics research as well as for developing cures for cancer and
       neurological disorders. The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL), or "Mag
       Lab", is one of only nine such facilities in the world.
    • Also notable is FSU's Antarctic Research Facility, the largest repository of Antarctic
       sedimentary core samples in the world.
External links
    •   Official school site
    •   Official athletics site
    •   Officially-sanctioned university news site
    •   FSView & Florida Flambeau, independent student newspaper
    •   National High Magnetic Field Laboratory site
    •   History of Florida State University website

University of Florida
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Motto            Civium in moribus rei publicae salus   The University of Florida, is a public
                 (Latin: The welfare of the state
                                                        university located in Gainesville, Florida. It
                 (depends upon) the morals of its
                 citizens)                              is the fourth-largest university in the United
Established      1853 (official) 1905 (actual)          States, with over 48,000 students; it also
School type      Public                                 has the eighth-largest budget (nearly $1.9
President        J. Bernard Machen
Location         Gainesville, Florida, USA
                                                        billion per year) and is considered one of
Enrollment       33,094 undergraduate,                  the top public universities in the United
                 8,000+ graduate                        States. UF is also one of the Public Ivies, the
Faculty          5,171
                                                        only one in the Deep South.
Endowment        US$669 million
Campus           2,000 acres (8.09 km²)          Noted as the place where Gatorade was
Nickname         Gators                          created, UF ranks first among public
Mascot           Albert E. Gator
                                                 institutions and second among all
Colors           Orange and Blue (Royal Blue)
Website          www.ufl.edu                     institutions in the number of National Merit
                                                 Scholar students enrolled. More members
of the U.S. Congress have attended UF than any other university; currently nine alumni serve in
the House or Senate.
UF's current president is Bernie Machen.
Academics
UF is divided into twenty-one colleges, which offer over 100 undergraduate majors and an
equally wide array of 200 graduate degrees, including the only dentistry and veterinary
medicine programs in the state. The centerpiece of the critically-acclaimed journalism
programs at UF is WUFT, which consists of both a PBS television station and an NPR radio
station.
Florida's programs are generally ranked highly among public universities, and the university
was ranked as a Top Tier school by US News and World Reports for 2005. The graduate
programs in chemistry and tax law are consistently ranked among the best in the United
States. UF's engineering programs are very well-funded, partly from royalties on the sale of a
UF invention, Gatorade. The university is 13th among all universities - public and private - in the
number of U.S. Patents awarded in 2000.
The acceptance rate at UF has trended downward as the applicant pool has become more
competitive. In 2005, the average incoming freshman had a GPA of 3.9, an SAT score of 1295,
and an ACT composite of 29. Undergraduate tuition is around $100 per credit for Florida
residents, and $520 per credit for out-of-state students, with a typical load of 30 credits per
year.
References
    •   University of Florida Facts. University of Florida website. Accessed January 6, 2004.
    •   Teague, Edward H. Historic Sites Guide. George A. Smathers Libraries website.
        February 2, 2000. Accessed April 30, 2005.
External links
    •   University of Florida official Web site