The Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine is part of the Health Professions Division of the university. The Health Professions Division, with a student body of more than 2000, is home to Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine, the first one in the southeastern U.S., and it grants the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) degree. EMS Education and Training, Master of Science in Medical Informatics, and Masters of Public Health are also offered.
Contents
[hide]
* 1 History
* 2 Curriculum
o 2.1 Year 1: Basic Sciences
o 2.2 Year 2: Systems-Based Learning
o 2.3 Year 3: Core Clinical Rotations
o 2.4 Year 4
* 3 Clinical training sites
* 4 Post-graduate placement
* 5 Links
[edit] History
The Southeastern College of Osteopathic Medicine (SECOM) was established in 1979 in North Miami Beach, FL by Morton Terry, D.O. Because of SECOM's success, a College of Pharmacy was added in 1986 and a College of Optometry in 1988, thus creating the Southeastern University of Health Sciences. In 1994, Southeastern University merged with Nova University, creating Nova Southeastern University and giving the College of Osteopathic Medicine a new home in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
[edit] Curriculum
[edit] Year 1: Basic Sciences
* Biochemistry
* Gross Anatomy
* Neuroanatomy
* Histology
* Physiology
* Microbiology
* Clinical Practicum
* Osteopathic Principles & Practice
* Radiology
* Public Health & Epidemiology
* Ethnocultural Medicine
* Basic Life Support
[edit] Year 2: Systems-Based Learning
* Principles of Pathology
* Principles of Pharmacology
* Principles of Clinical Medicine
* Hematopoietic & Lymphoreticular System
* Respiratory System
* Cardiovascular System
* Gastrointestinal System
* Endocrine System
* Women's Health
* Integumentary System
* Renal/Urinary System
* Musculoskeletal System
* Nervous System
* Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine
* Osteopathic Principles & Practice
* Medical Jurisprudence
* Medical Ethics
* HIV Seminar
* End-of-Life Seminar
* Rural Medicine
* Advanced Cardiac Life Support
* Pediatric Advanced Life Support
[edit] Year 3: Core Clinical Rotations
* Family Medicine (2 months)
* Geriatrics (1 month)
* Pediatrics (2 months)
* Internal Medicine (3 months)
* Surgery (2 months)
* Obstetrics and Gynecology (1 month)
* Psychiatry (1 month)
[edit] Year 4
* Emergency Medicine (1 month)
* Rural/Underserved rotation (2 months)
* Rural selective (1 month)
* Electives (5 months)
[edit] Clinical training sites
During years 3 and 4, students leave NSU-COM's Davie campus to begin clinical rotations. Major affiliated training hospitals include:
* Broward General Medical Center (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
* Memorial Regional Medical Center (Hollywood, FL)
* Mount Sinai Medical Center (Miami Beach, FL)
* Miami Children's Hospital (Miami, FL)
* South Florida State Hospital (Pembroke Pines, FL)
* Palmetto General Hospital (Hialeah, FL)
* Palm Beaches Hospital Consortium (West Palm Beach, FL)
* Suncoast Hospital (Largo, FL)
* Florida Hospital East Orlando (Orlando, FL)
[edit] Post-graduate placement
Although NSU-COM has traditionally produced many family medicine physicians, graduates go on to pursue careers in all specialties of medicine. NSU-COM maintains affiliated residency programs in: family medicine, internal medicine, emergency medicine, preventative medicine, pediatrics, general surgery, orthopedic surgery, anesthesiology, and dermatology. Fellowship programs are offered in: sports medicine, geriatrics, rheumatology, cardiology, forensic pathology, and gynecological oncology.
[edit] Links
* Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine
* American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (or LECOM) is a private, graduate school of medicine and pharmacy. The main campus is located in Erie, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1992, LECOM is a member of the Millcreek Health System in partnership with Millcreek Geriatric Education and Care Center, and physician offices of Medical Associates of Erie. In 2004 LECOM opened a branch campus in Bradenton, Florida. LECOM grants the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine and the Doctor of Pharmacy degrees, and also maintains a Post Baccalaureate Program, providing educational opportunities for students who need to enhance their basic science credentials for admission to medical or pharmacy school.
The Medical School has three learning pathways: a traditional Lecture Discussion Program, a Problem Based Learning Program, and an independent study program. This offers students a variety of ways to learn, allowing them to learn in the method that best suits them. The Erie campus offers all three pathways, while the Bradenton campus is solely Problem Based Learning. The Erie branch also offers a unique accelerated pathway to primary care, LECOM's Primary Care Scholars Pathway (PCSP), which condenses four years of medical education into three years in order to graduate Primary Care physicians sooner.
The Medical School has three learning pathways: a traditional Lecture Discussion Program, a Problem Based Learning Program, and an independent study program. This offers students a variety of ways to learn, allowing them to learn in the method that best suits them. The Erie campus offers all three pathways, while the Bradenton campus is solely Problem Based Learning. The Erie branch also offers a unique accelerated pathway to primary care, LECOM's Primary Care Scholars Pathway (PCSP), which condenses four years of medical education into three years in order to graduate Primary Care physicians sooner.
Florida State University
Florida State University (commonly referred to as Florida State or FSU)[8] is a public research university located in Tallahassee. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and very high research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation.[9] The university comprises 16 separate colleges and 39 centers, facilities, labs and institutes that offer more than 300 programs of study, including professional programs.[10]
As one of Florida's primary graduate research universities,[11] Florida State University awards over 2,000 graduate and professional degrees each year.[12] Florida State is one of two flagship universities in the State University System of Florida.[1][13][14] In 2007 Florida State was placed in the first tier of research universities by the Florida Legislature, a distinction allowing FSU, along with the University of Florida, to charge 40% higher tuition than other institutions in the State University System of Florida.[15] While FSU was officially established in 1851 and is located on the oldest continuous site of higher education in the state of Florida, at least one predecessor institution[16] may be traced back to 1843, two years before Florida was admitted as a state in the United States.[8][17]
Florida State University is also home to nationally ranked programs in many academic areas, including the sciences, social policy, film, engineering, the Arts, business, politics, medicine and law.[18] Florida State is home to Florida's only National Laboratory - the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory as well as being the birthplace of the commercially-viable anti-cancer drug Taxol. The Florida State University athletics programs are favorites of passionate students, fans and alumni across the United States, especially when led by the Marching Chiefs of the FSU College of Music. Florida State is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference and has won eleven national athletic championships as well as multiple individual competitor NCAA championship awards.
Contents
[hide]
* 1 History
* 2 Pathways of Excellence
* 3 Campus
o 3.1 Satellite campus
o 3.2 International programs
o 3.3 Collections
o 3.4 University Center
* 4 Academics
o 4.1 Rankings
* 5 Organization
o 5.1 Colleges
* 6 Students
o 6.1 Student housing
o 6.2 Student life
+ 6.2.1 Dining
+ 6.2.2 Activities
+ 6.2.3 Media
* 7 Faculty and research
o 7.1 Taxol
o 7.2 National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
* 8 Athletics
o 8.1 Seminole name
o 8.2 Seminole Baseball
o 8.3 Seminole Football and Bobby Bowden
o 8.4 Men’s Track & Field
* 9 Traditions
o 9.1 Marching Chiefs
o 9.2 School songs
* 10 Campus Expansion
* 11 Notable alumni
o 11.1 Notable athletic alumni
* 12 Notes and references
* 13 Further reading
o 13.1 Books
* 14 External links
[edit] History
Main article: History of Florida State University
West Florida Seminary main building, circa 1880. Built in 1854 as the Florida Institute. This building was replaced with College Hall in 1891. The Westcott Building now stands on this site - the oldest site of higher education in Florida
West Florida Seminary main building, circa 1880. Built in 1854 as the Florida Institute. This building was replaced with College Hall in 1891. The Westcott Building now stands on this site - the oldest site of higher education in Florida
Florida State University traces its origins to a plan set by the 1823 Territorial Legislature of Florida to create a system of higher education. The 1838 Florida Constitution codified the basic system by providing for land allocated for the schools.[19] In 1851 the Florida Legislature established two seminaries of higher education on opposite banks of the Suwannee River.[20] Francis W. Eppes and other city leaders established an all-male academy called the Florida Institute in Tallahassee as a legislative inducement to locate the West Florida Seminary in Tallahassee.[21] The eastern seminary, located in Ocala, FL, was established in 1853 but closed during the American Civil War. It reopened in 1866 in Gainesville, FL and would eventually be combined with other schools to form what would be called the University of Florida in 1906.[22]
Francis W. Eppes VII
Francis W. Eppes VII
In 1856, the area surrounding Gallows Hill – where the Florida Institute was built – was accepted as the site of the state seminary for not only male students but also absorbing the Tallahassee Female Academy founded in 1843 as the Misses Bates School.[23][24] The West Florida Seminary stood near the front of the Westcott Building on the existing FSU campus, making this site the oldest continually used location of higher learning in Florida.[25][26][27]
During the Civil War, the seminary became the The Florida Military and Collegiate Institute. Cadets from the school defeated Union forces at the Battle of Natural Bridge in 1865, leaving Tallahassee as the only Confederate capital east of the Mississippi River not to fall to Union forces.[28][29] After the fall of the Confederacy, campus buildings were occupied by Union forces and the West Florida Seminary reverted to its academic role awarding its first diplomas (Licentiates of Instruction) in 1884. The seminary was renamed the University of Florida by the Florida Legislature in 1885, but the title was never embraced due to lack of funding.[20][30]
College Hall, circa 1903
College Hall, circa 1903
By the turn of the century, the seminary increasingly focused on post-secondary education and became the first liberal arts college in Florida after it was reorganized into the Florida State College with four departments (the College, the College Academy, the School for Teachers and the School of Music) in 1901.[20] The 1905 Buckman Act, named after Henry Holland Buckman, reorganized the Florida college system into a school for Caucasian males, a school for Caucasian females (Florida State College for Women), and a school for African Americans.[31] By 1933 the Florida State College for Women had grown to be the third largest women’s college in the United States and was the first state women's college in the South to be awarded a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, as well as the first university in Florida so honored.[32][33]
Westcott Building, circa 1933
Westcott Building, circa 1933
The influx of G.I. Bill students after World War II stressed the state university system to the point that a Tallahassee Branch of the University of Florida (TBUF) was opened on the campus of the Florida State College for Women and the men were housed in barracks on Dale Mabry Field.[20][34] By 1947 the Florida Legislature returned the FSCW to coeducational status and renamed the Florida State College for Women Florida State University.[35] The FSU West Campus land and barracks plus other areas continually used as an airport later became the location of the Tallahassee Community College.
Chemistry lab in 1900
Chemistry lab in 1900
The post-war years brought substantial growth and development to the university as many departments colleges were added including Business, Journalism (discontinued in 1959), Library Science, Nursing and Social Welfare.[8] Strozier Library, Tully Gymnasium and the original parts of the Business building were also built at this time.
During the 1960s and 1970s Florida State University became a center for student activism especially in the areas of racial integration, women's rights and opposition to the Vietnam War. The school acquired the nickname 'Berkeley of the South'[36] during this period, in reference to similar student activities at the University of California, Berkeley and is also purported to be the site of the genesis of "streaking," which is said to have first been observed on Landis Green.[37][38] Governor Claude Kirk once spent a night on Landis Green, in the center of campus, discussing politics with protesting students. The Center for Participant Education was established in 1970 as an alternative to traditional university academics to allow students to "explore socially relevant topics and to foster a healthier philosophy of education through classes in which anyone could teach or attend. Since then, CPE has been investigated by the Legislature, suspended by the Board of Regents, and challenged by FSU administration. CPE has managed to hold strong through all of this, and remains today as one of the last free universities in the country."[39] Florida State also established the Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Space Biosciences and the Programs in Medical Studies. In 1962, the first African American student enrolled at the university and the first African American Ph.D. students graduated in 1970.
[edit] Pathways of Excellence
Landis Hall on Landis Green. (Honors residence hall)
Landis Hall on Landis Green. (Honors residence hall)
The strategic vision of Florida State University, known as Pathways of Excellence, changed in September 2005 as the result of an evaluation of "FSU’s academic productivity and recognition as viewed in the context of the Phase I and Phase II indicators for membership in the Association of American Universities (AAU) and the standards used by the National Research Council for evaluating doctoral programs."[40] The task group made recommendations, on which FSU President Wetherell acted, which are intended to have a transformational effect on the scholarly productivity of the university. The faculty group created specific goals for the university which include substantial investment in new university faculty hired in "academic clusters"[40] focused principally on doctoral-level research. Coupled with this investment in 200 new faculty members is an aggressive expansion of the physical infrastructure of the university.[40] To date, new construction is underway or recently completed for a new Experimental Social Science Laboratory, a College of Medicine Research Building, a new Psychology Building, a new Chemistry Building, a new Life Sciences Teaching and Research Building and a new Materials Research Building. Other existing research facilities at the university have been renovated, including the Nancy Smith Fichter Dance Theatre, the Kasha Laboratory of the Institute of Molecular Biophysics plus enhancements to the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and a new Applied Superconductivity Center.
[edit] Campus
Landis Green is located in the center of the main campus.
Landis Green is located in the center of the main campus.
Going onto the main campus of Florida State University from any of the governmental buildings in downtown Tallahassee, Florida is not difficult, as the main campus is located to the west of this downtown area. The main campus covers 489 acres (2.0 km²) of land including Heritage Grove and contains over 5,000,000 square feet (465,000 m²) of buildings. Florida State University owns more than 1,500 acres (6 km²). The campus is bordered by Stadium Drive to the west, Tennessee Street (U.S. Route 90) to the north, Macomb Street to the east, and Gaines Street to the south. Located on College Avenue, the Wescott building is perhaps the school's most prominent structure.
Also, Doak Campbell Stadium, now named Bobby Bowden Field at Doak S. Campbell Stadium, which seats approximately 83,000 spectators, the University Center Buildings, Dick Howser Stadium as well as other athletic buildings and fields are located off of Stadium Drive in the southwest quadrant.
The historic student housing residence halls include Broward, Bryan, Cawthon, Gilchrist, Jennie Murphree, Landis and Reynolds are located on the eastern half of campus. There are three new residence hall complexes; Ragans and Wildwood that are located near the athletic quadrant and DeGraff hall located on Tennessee Street.
On and around the Florida State University campus there are seven libraries; Dirac Science Library named after the Nobel Prize winning physicist and Florida State University professor Paul Dirac, Strozier Library, Maguire Medical Library, Law Library, Engineering Library, Allen Music Library and the Goldstein information library.
Right next to the Donald L. Tucker Center, the College of Law is located between Jefferson Street and Pensacola Street. The College of Business sits in the heart of campus near the Oglesby Student Union and across from the new Huge Classroom Building (HCB). The Science and research quad is located in the northwest quadrant of campus. The College of Medicine, King Life Science buildings (biology) as well as the Department of Psychology are located on the west end of campus on Call Street and Stadium Drive.
Doak Campbell Stadium, The University Center Buildings, Dick Howser Stadium as well as other athletic buildings and fields are located off of Stadium Drive in the southwest quadrant. The historic student housing residence halls include Broward, Bryan, Cawthon, Gilchrist, Jennie Murphree, Landis and Reynolds are located on the eastern half of campus. There are three new residence hall complexes; Ragans and Wildwood that are located near the athletic quadrant and DeGraff hall located on Tennessee Street.
A view of FSU from the Capitol Building
A view of FSU from the Capitol Building
Being a major university campus, the Florida State University campus is also home to Heritage Grove, Florida State's Greek Community, located a short walk up the St. Marks Trail. Additional to the main campus, the FSU Southwest campus encompasses another 850 acres (3.4 km²) of land off of Orange Drive. The southwest campus currently houses the College of Engineering which is housed in a two building joint facility with the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. In addition to the College of Engineering, The Dave Middleton Golf Complex Don Veller Seminole golf course and club are located here. The FSU Research Foundation buildings as well as the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory are located in Innovation Park and the Alumni Village, family style student housing are located off of Levy. Flastacowo Road Leads to the FSU Reservation, a student lakeside retreat on Lake Bradford.
A greenspace near Landis and Gilchrist residence halls, on the main campus
A greenspace near Landis and Gilchrist residence halls, on the main campus
In August, a new 104-acre (0.4 km²) RecSports Plex opened located on Tyson Road. This intramural sports complex will become the largest in the collegiate world with twelve Football fields, five Softball fields, four club (Soccer) fields as well as Basketball and Volleyball courts
The addition of the Southwest Tallahassee campus in recent years has expanded campus space to over 1,100 acres (4 km²).
[edit] Satellite campus
Main article: Florida State University Panama City
Located just 100 miles (160 km) from the main campus in Tallahassee. Continuing its pledge to academic excellence, FSU Panama City is committed to providing area students with a quality education from a nationally-accredited university. Beginning in the early 1980s. Since that time the campus has grown to almost 1,500 students supported by 15 bachelor’s and 19 graduate degree programs.
With a firm commitment to the needs of Northwest Florida, fall 2000 marked the debut of full-time daytime programs offered at FSU Panama City. This scheduling, coupled with programs offered in the evenings, serves to accommodate the needs of its diverse student population. In addition, over 30 resident faculty have been hired to meet these program demands. A waterfront setting is one of this campus’s most striking attributes. Nestled among oaks along the waters of North Bay and only three miles from the Gulf of Mexico the Florida State University Panama City campus offers upper-division undergraduate courses as well as some graduate and specialist degree programs.
Since opening in 1982, 4,000+ have graduated from the degrees ranging from elementary education to engineering. All courses are taught by faculty members from the main FSU campus at a ratio of 25 students to each faculty member.
[edit] International programs
For over 50 years Florida State University has operated a broad curriculum program in Panama City of the Republic of Panama.[41] Students have full facilities, including the largest English-language library in the Republic of Panama, academic counseling, computer facilities, housing, research facilities, a gymnasium, and a cafeteria. The student population is generally international and comes from the United States, the Republic of Panama and other countries.
Florida State University also operates international programs in Florence, Italy; London, England and Valencia, Spain.[42]. It also offers international programs abroad in Cairns, Australia; Salvador, Brazil; Tianjin, China; San Jose, Costa Rica; Dubrovnik, Croatia; Prague, Czech Republic; Napo, Ecuador; London, England and Oxford, England; Paris, France; Dublin, Ireland; Florence, Italy; Tokyo, Japan; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Panama City, Panama; Moscow, Russia; Valencia, Spain; and Leysin, Switzerland.[42]
[edit] Collections
Ringling Museum of Art
Ringling Museum of Art
Florida State University maintains and operates The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art located in Sarasota, FL, which is recognized as the official State Art Museum of Florida.[43] The institution offers twenty-one galleries of European paintings as well as Cypriot antiquities and Asian, American, and contemporary art. The museum's art collection currently consists of more than 10,000 objects that include a wide variety of paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, and decorative arts from ancient through contemporary periods and from around the world. The most celebrated items in the museum are 16th, 17th, and 18th century European paintings, including a world-renowned collection of Peter Paul Rubens paintings.[44] The Ringling Museum collections constitute the largest university museum complex in the United States.[45]
Florida State University also maintains the FSU Museum of Fine Arts (MoFA) in Tallahassee. The MoFA permanent collection consists of over 4000 items in 18 sub-collections ranging from pre-Columbian pottery to contemporary art.[46]
Heritage Tower at University Center
Heritage Tower at University Center
[edit] University Center
Doak Campbell Stadium is a unique venue in collegiate football. It is contained within the brick facade walls of University Center, a vast complex that houses the offices of the University, the Registrar, School of Hospitality as well as numerous other offices and classrooms.
* The University Center A (East wing)
Building A houses the offices of the Registrar, Financial Aid, Admissions and Dean of Students. The Career Center is also located here until it is moved to the new Student Success Center. The Award Winning Film School is Located in the 2nd wing of Building A. The top two floors are home to Skyboxes
* The University Center B (South Wing)
Building B holds the Seminole Sportshop as well as Visitor Services. UCB is also home to the University Center Club and to the Osceola Sports Grill, the ultimate way to watch a Seminole Football game. The highly ranked Dedman School of Hospitality is located on the second floor of Building B.
* The University Center C (West Wing)
Building C is home to the College of Communication, Florida State Testing Center as well as the College of Social Work. The Athletics Ticket office is also located here as are many of the offices of Seminole Boosters. Floor nine is home to the Press Boxes with two floors of Skyboxes below.
* Moore Athletic Center (University Center D)
Located on the North Side of Doak Campbell, the athletic center houses nearly all of the athletic offices as well as some classrooms and lecture halls. Visitors are welcomed into the Great Hall showcasing the best of Seminole Athletics. The two National Championship Football trophies are on display for all to see.
[edit] Academics
Westcott Building circa 2003
Westcott Building circa 2003
The FSU Honors Program is a specially designed program for the most accomplished incoming undergraduates. Undergraduates in Honors participate in smaller classes with faculty, including individual research programs or assigned research in the area of the sponsoring faculty member. Admission to Honors is competitive. The FSU Honors Medical and Law early-admission, professional-track programs are designed to facilitate faster access to professional programs for the limited number of students who meet required standards. Honors students are eligible for the Honors residence hall and associated administrative benefits.
A number of undergraduate academic programs at Florida State University are termed "Limited Access Programs". Limited Access Programs are programs where student demand exceeds available resources thus making admission to such programs sometimes extremely competitive. Examples of limited access programs include The Florida State University Film School, the College of Communication, several majors in the College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance and all majors in the College of Business.[47]
FSU Young Scholars Program (YSP) is a residential science and mathematics program for 40 Florida high-school students with potential for careers in the sciences, engineering, and health professions.[48][49]
[edit] Rankings
Florida State University currently ranks 52nd among national public universities and 112th overall by U.S. News and World Report giving it Tier One status,[50] ranks in the top 200 among world universities, among the top 100 American universities, and in the top 90 among universities in the United States by The Academic Ranking of World Universities,[51] 294th among world universities by The Times Higher Education Supplement,[52] 50th among American universities by Webometrics, [53] and in the 9th tier among national public universities by The Center for Measuring University Performance.[54] Florida State University was ranked 16th nationally in the February 2007 edition of Kiplinger's Best Values in Public Colleges.[55] FSU is the second least expensive flagship university in the U.S., according to USATODAY.[56]
Many of FSU's academic programs rank among the nation’s top twenty-five public universities, including programs in Business (Real Estate, Risk Management/Insurance, Entrepreneurial Studies), Chemistry, Creative Writing, Criminology, Dance, Education, Film, Human Sciences, Hospitality, Information Technology, Law, Meteorology, Music, Oceanography, Physics, Political Science, Public Administration and Policy, Social Work, Spanish, Theatre, Urban Planning, and Visual Art.[18][57]
[edit] Organization
The D'Alemberte Rotunda, part of FSU's College of Law, is used to host special events and in the past has been used by the Florida Supreme Court to convene special sessions
The D'Alemberte Rotunda, part of FSU's College of Law, is used to host special events and in the past has been used by the Florida Supreme Court to convene special sessions
As a part of the State University System of Florida, Florida State University falls under the purview of the Florida Board of Governors. However, a 13-member Board of trustees is "vested with the authority to govern and set policy for The Florida State University as necessary to provide proper governance and improvement of the University in accordance with law and rules of the Florida Board of Governors."[58] Thomas Kent "T.K." Wetherell was appointed president in 2003, succeeding Talbot D'Alemberte, and is responsible for day-to-day operation and administration of the university.[58]
Florida State University has a $522 million endowment.[3]
[edit] Colleges
Florida State University offers Associate, Bachelor, Masters, Specialist, Doctoral, and Professional degree programs through its sixteen colleges. The most popular Colleges by enrollment are Arts and Sciences, Business, Social Sciences, Education, and Human Science.[59]
College of Medicine
College of Medicine
The Florida State University College of Medicine operates using diversified community-based clinical education medical training for medical students. The students spend their first two years taking basic science courses on the FSU campus in Tallahassee and are then assigned to one of the regional medical school campuses for their third- and fourth-year clinical training. Rotations can be done at one of the six regional campuses in Daytona Beach, FL, Fort Pierce, FL, Orlando, FL, Pensacola, FL, Sarasota, FL or stay in Tallahassee if they so choose.[60]
Colleges at Florida State include:
* College of Arts & Sciences
* College of Business
* College of Communication
* College of Criminology & Criminal Justice
* College of Education
* College of Engineering
* College of Human Sciences
* College of Information
* College of Law
* College of Medicine
* College of Motion Picture, Television & Recording Arts
* College of Music
* College of Nursing
* College of Social Sciences
* College of Social Work
* College of Visual Arts, Theatre & Dance
[edit] Students
Reynolds and Jennie Murphree residence halls
Reynolds and Jennie Murphree residence halls
Cawthon residence hall
Cawthon residence hall
Florida State University enrolled 31,058 undergraduates and 9,416 graduate and professional students in 2006. Tuition was $3,175 (in-state) and $16,306 (out-of-state) per term. The Fall 2007 enrolled freshmen class had an average GPA of 3.8; an average SAT of 1218 and an average ACT of 27. The freshman acceptance rate for the Fall 2007 semester was 48%.[61] FSU has a 68% six-year graduation rate compared to the national average six-year graduation rate of 53%.[62][63] FSU's freshman retention rate is 90%.[64]
[edit] Student housing
Florida State University is a traditional residential university wherein most students live on campus in university residence halls or nearby in privately-owned residence halls, apartments and residences. Florida State currently has 17 residence halls on campus, housing undergraduate, graduate and international students. Residence halls offer suite style, apartment style, and corridor style accommodations. On-campus housing is generally preferred by many students as automobile parking on or near campus can become a competitive effort. There are many off-campus housing options throughout Tallahassee for students to choose from. All housing at Florida State University has high-speed Internet access, except for Alumni Village. This high-speed Internet access is necessary for students for academic and administrative activities. Students who are members of the active university Greek Life system at FSU may live in chapter housing near campus.[65]
Bryan Hall, oldest building on campus
Bryan Hall, oldest building on campus
Undergraduate housing
Renovated historic student housing residence halls located on the eastern half of campus include Broward, Bryan, Cawthon, Gilchrist, Jennie Murphree, Landis and Reynolds. These halls also have mandatory meal membership requirements. Deviney and Dorman are also located on the eastern half of campus. There are three new residence hall complexes; Ragans and Wildwood that are located near the athletic quadrant and Degraff hall located on Tennessee Street. Kellum, Smith, McCollum and Salley halls are located in the northwestern quadrant.
Graduate housing
Graduate and married students may live in off-campus housing known as Alumni Village located in the Southwest campus. On-campus housing for single graduate students includes Rogers hall and Ragans hall.
Wildwood Hall, constructed 2006
Wildwood Hall, constructed 2006
Ragans Hall, apartment style Residence Hall
Ragans Hall, apartment style Residence Hall
[edit] Student life
[edit] Dining
Dine-in university-contracted campus dining facilities exist. (provided by Aramark). The Suwannee Room dining hall in the William Johnston Building located on the east side of campus was remodeled to its original condition. Fresh Food Company is a buffet style dining facility located across from the College of Medicine to the west end of campus. In the center of campus there is Park Avenue Diner which is open 24 hours a day. Located in the student union are Chili’s, Hardee’s, Pollo Tropical, Miso Chinese, Quiznos, and Einstein Bros. Bagles. Some residence halls require students to participate in a campus meal plan.
[edit] Activities
Crenshaw Lanes is a twelve lane bowling alley and includes ten full sized billiard tables. It has been at FSU since 1964.
Club Downunder includes entertainment acts such as bands and comedians. Past bands that have come through Club Downunder include The White Stripes, Modest Mouse, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Death Cab for Cutie.
The Askew Student Life building is home to the Student Life Cinema. It features five to six nights a week playing movies, documentaries, indies, foreign films, and restored cinema movies. Movies are selected by an all-student committee and are free to all currently-enrolled FSU students.
The Student Life Building also has games and a cybercafe. The cybercafe hosts Super Smash Bros. tournaments and other gaming tournaments.
Florida State also has a Intramural Sports program.[66] Sports clubs include equestrian and water sailing. the clubs compete against other Intercollegiate club teams around the country. Intramural sports include flag football, basketball, wiffle ball, anddodge ball.
A new area of intramural sports fields, named the104-acre (0.4 km²) RecSports Plex, was opened in September 2007. This intramural sports complex is the largest in the nation with twelve Football fields, five Softball fields, four Soccer fields as well as Basketball and Volleyball courts.
The Florida States Reservation is located off campus. This lakeside retreat on Lake Bradford has canoe and kayak rentals as well as a rock climbing wall and a zipline course.
[edit] Media
FSU radio and television logo
FSU radio and television logo
The campus newspaper, the FSView & Florida Flambeau', publishes weekly during the summer and semiweekly on Mondays and Thursdays during the school year. After changing hands three times in 13 years, the FSView was sold to the Tallahassee Democrat in late July 2006, making it part of the Gannett chain.[67] FSView also produces Edge Magazine, geared towards students, advertisements for local establishments, and a "Tally Girl" model. Florida State University, through its Broadcast Center, operates two television stations, WFSU and WFSG,[68] and three radio stations, WFSU-FM, WFSQ-FM and WFSW-FM.[69] FSU operates a fourth radio station, WVFS (V89, "The Voice", or "The Voice of Florida State"), as an on-campus instructional radio station staffed by student and community volunteers.[70] WVFS broadcasts experimental music as an alternative to regular radio.
[edit] Faculty and research
Professors E. Imre Friedmann, left, and Roseli Friedmann.
Professors E. Imre Friedmann, left, and Roseli Friedmann.
Main article: List of Florida State University faculty
Florida State University employs 2,291 faculty members and 5,942 staff. The faculty of Florida State University include recipients of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, Guggenheim Fellowships, Academy Awards, and other accolades. Florida State is represented by faculty serving in a number of renowned Academies, Associations and Societies.[71] Florida State was home to the first ETA10-G/8 supercomputer[72] and developed the anti-cancer drug Taxol.
Professor E. Imre Friedmann and researcher Dr. Roseli Friedmann demonstrated primitive life could survive in rocks, establishing the potential for life on other planets.[73][74]
[edit] Taxol
Main article: Taxol
A number of US groups, including one led by Robert A. Holton, attempted a total synthesis of the molecule, starting from petrochemical-derived starting materials. This work was primarily motivated as a way of generating chemical knowledge, rather than with any expectation of developong a practical production technique. By contrast the French group of Pierre Potier at the CNRS quickly recognised the problem of yield. His laboratory was on a campus populated by the related yew Taxus baccata, so that needles were available locally in large quantity.
By 1988, and particularly with Potier's publication, it was clear to Holton too that a practical semi-synthetic production route would be important. By late 1989, Holton's group had developed a semisynthetic route to paclitaxel with twice the yield of the Potier process. Florida State University, where Holton worked, signed a deal with Bristol-Myers Squibb to license this and future patents. In 1992, Holton patented an improved process with an 80% yield.
[edit] National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
NHMFL logo
NHMFL logo
The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) or "Mag Lab" at Florida State University develops and operates high magnetic field facilities that scientists use for research in physics, biology, bioengineering, chemistry, geochemistry, biochemistry, materials science, and engineering. It is the only facility of its kind in the United States and one of only nine in the world. Eight world records have been set at the Mag Lab to date.[75]
The NHMFL is a 30,658 square meter (330,000 sq. ft) complex employing 300 faculty, staff, graduate, and postdoctoral students. The NHMFL is the only national laboratory in the State of Florida and one of nine high field laboratories in the world. This facility is the largest and highest powered laboratory of its kind in the world and produces the highest continuous magnetic fields. FSU and the University of Florida won the laboratory from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1990.[75]
[edit] Athletics
FSU athletic symbol
FSU athletic symbol
Main article: Florida State Seminoles
Florida State University is known for its competitive athletics for both men's and women's sports. The men's program consists of baseball, basketball, cross country running, football, golf, swimming, tennis, and track & field. The women's program consists of basketball, cross country running, golf, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track & field, and volleyball.
Facilities
There are two major stadiums and an arena within FSU's main campus; Doak Campbell Stadium for football, Dick Howser Stadium for men’s baseball, and the Donald L. Tucker Center for men’s and women’s basketball.
Unconquered:A Seminole warrior statue in front of Doak Campbell Stadium honors the unconquered spirit of the Seminole people. During football season, the torch at the end of the spear is lit on the Friday preceding a football game.
Unconquered:A Seminole warrior statue in front of Doak Campbell Stadium honors the unconquered spirit of the Seminole people. During football season, the torch at the end of the spear is lit on the Friday preceding a football game.
Mike Long Track is the home of the two-time back-to-back national champion men’s track and field team. Following their championship on 2007, a new three building complex broke ground on the corner of Spirit Way and Chieftain Way on the southern end of the track.
H. Donald Loucks courts at the Speicher Tennis Center is the home for FSU tennis. By presidential directive the complex was named in honor of Lieutenant Commander Michael Scott Speicher, a graduate of Florida State University and the first American casualty during Operation Desert Storm.
The Seminole Soccer Complex is home to women’s soccer. It normally holds a capacity of 1,600 people but has seen crowds in excess of 4,500 for certain games. The home record is 4,582 for last year’s game versus Florida.
The Seminole softball team plays at the Seminole Softball Complex; the field is named for JoAnne Graf, the winningest coach in softball history.[76]
Intercollegiate Sports
FSU's Intercollegiate Club sports include Bowling, Crew, Rugby, Soccer and Lacrosse. Harkins Field is an artificial turf field that is home to the nationally ranked Lacrosse team as well as the Marching Chiefs as well a practice field for the FSU Football team.
Rivals
Florida State's traditional rivals in all sports include the University of Florida Gators, the University of Miami Hurricanes, the Bowden Bowl with the Clemson University Tigers as well as the University of Virginia Cavaliers and the battle for the Jefferson-Eppes Trophy.[77] Rivalries in some other sports also exist, including the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in baseball and the Duke University Blue Devils in basketball.[77]
[edit] Seminole name
The school's athletic teams are called the Seminoles. This Native American name is used with official sanction of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Inc. and the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. They participate in the NCAA's Division I (Bowl Subdivision for football) and in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
[edit] Seminole Baseball
Seminole baseball is one of the most successful collegiate baseball programs in the United States having been to 18 College World Series, and having appeared in the national championship final on three occasions (falling to the University of Southern California Trojans in 1970, the University of Arizona Wildcats in 1986, and the University of Miami Hurricanes in 1999). Under the command of Head Coach Mike Martin (FSU 1966), Florida State is the second-winningest program in the history of college baseball. Since 1990, FSU has had more 50 win seasons, headed to more NCAA Tournaments (19 Regional Tournaments in 20 years), and finished in the top 10 more than any team in the United States. Since 2000, FSU is the winningest program in college baseball with more victories and a higher winning percentage in the regular season than any other school. Despite their regular-season success, Florida State is still chasing their first College World Series Championship.
[edit] Seminole Football and Bobby Bowden
Main article: Florida State Seminoles football
Florida State College football 1902
Florida State College football 1902
Florida State University football is one of the 119 NCAA Division I-A collegiate football teams in America. The first Florida State football team was fielded in the 1899 season and lasted until the 1904 season. The team went (7-6-1) over the 1902-1904 seasons posting a record of (3-1) against their rivals from the Florida Agricultural College in Lake City, FL. In 1904 the Florida State football team became the first ever state champions of Florida after beating both the Florida Agricultural College and Stetson University. The football team and all male students subsequently moved to the newly opened University of Florida in Gainesville in 1906 as a result of the 1905 Buckman Act.
Florida State Football Practice Fields
Florida State Football Practice Fields
Under head coach Bobby Bowden, currently in his 32nd year, the Seminole football team became one of the nation's most competitive football teams, greatly expanding the tradition of football at Florida State.[78] The Seminoles played in five national championship games between 1993 and 2001, and have claimed the championship twice, in 1993 and 1999 . The FSU football team was the most successful team in college football during the 1990s, boasting an 89% winning percentage.[79] FSU also set an NCAA record for most consecutive Top 5 finishes in the AP football poll - receiving placement 14 years in a row, from 1987 to 2000. The Seminoles were the first college football team in history to go wire-to-wire (ranked first place from preseason to postseason) since the AP began releasing preseason rankings in 1936. FSU also owns the record for most consecutive Bowl game victories with 11 between 1985 and 1996.[78] The Seminole Football team has also won 15 Conference championships in the Dixie and Atlantic Coast.
FSU Football head coach Bobby Bowden is the Division I leader in the NCAA with 372 career wins, followed by Penn State's Joe Paterno with 370. FSU football is well-known for introducing talented players into the NFL, including Deion Sanders, Terrell Buckley, Derrick Brooks, Sebastian Janikowski, Walter Jones, Corey Simon, Anquan Boldin, Javon Walker, Warrick Dunn, Peter Boulware, Laverneus Coles, Brad Johnson, Samari Rolle, Houston Barber and many other players in recent history.
The Sod Cemetery
Florida State Football's Sod Cemetery is the final resting place for 75 "Sod Games"
Florida State Football's Sod Cemetery is the final resting place for 75 "Sod Games"
In 1962, the FSU football team captains returned to Tallahassee with a piece of the turf from Sanford Stadium after beating Georgia 18-0 in Athens. The turf was presented to Dean Coyle E. Moore who founded the tradition of the sod game.
The sod cemetery began when the first piece of sod was buried in the corner of the Florida State practice field and a monument was placed to commemorate the road victory. In the early years, FSU only snipped grass when it won by upset on the road. But as the Seminoles became more successful, the criteria changed. Sod games still represent road games won when FSU is a significant underdog, however, all bowl games are now considered sod games as well as landmark road wins no matter who was favored. Each piece of sod is buried in the cemetery next to the practice field and a tombstone is placed above it with the score and date of the game.
[edit] Men’s Track & Field
The FSU men's Track & Field team won the Atlantic Coast Conference championship three times running, and the NCAA National Championship in back to back years. IN 2006 Head Coach Bob Braman and Associate Head Coach Harlis Meaders helped lead individual champions in the 200 m (Walter Dix), the triple jump (Raqeef Curry), and the shot put (Garrett Johnson). Individual runners-up were Walter Dix in the 100 m, Ricardo Chambers in the 400 m, and Tom Lancashire in the 1500 m. Others scoring points in the National Championship were Michael Ray Garvin in the 200 m (8th),Andrew Lemoncello in the 3000 m steeplechase (4th), Raqeef Curry in the long jump (6th), and Garrett Johnson in the discus (5th).[80] In 2007, FSU won its second straight men's Track & Field NCAA National Championship when Dix became the first person to hold the individual title in the 100 m, 200 m, and 400 m at the same time.[81]
[edit] Traditions
Students study surveying and engineering in 1900
Students study surveying and engineering in 1900
The school's colors are garnet and gold. The colors of garnet and gold represent a merging of the university's past. While the school fielded a football team as early, or earlier than 1899,[82] in 1902, 1903 and 1905 the team won football championships wearing purple and gold uniforms.[20][83] When FSC became Florida State College for Women in 1905, the football team and fraternity system was forced to attend the now all male school in Gainesville, thus marking the beginning of the football program at the University of Florida.[84] The following year, the college student body selected crimson as the official school color. The administration in 1905 took crimson and combined it with the recognizable purple of the championship football teams to achieve the color garnet. When football returned to the school about 42 years later the now famous garnet and gold colors were first used on an FSU uniform in a 14-6 loss to Stetson University on October 18, 1947.
Flying High Circus, established 1947
Flying High Circus, established 1947
[edit] Marching Chiefs
FSU is also the home of the Marching Chiefs, the FSU marching band. The Marching Chiefs are the band behind the famous "War Chant." The War Chant is derived from "Massacre" which was first played during the 1960s. Chiefs still play "Massacre" during pregame to honor the start of the War Chant.[85]
It is traditional for students to be dunked in the Westcott fountain on special occasions
It is traditional for students to be dunked in the Westcott fountain on special occasions
[edit] School songs
Alma Mater - High Over Towering Pines: High over towering pines our voices swell, Praising those Gothic spires, we love so well. Here sons and daughters stand, faithful and true, Hailing our alma mater, F.S.U.
Hymn to the Garnet and Gold: Here's a hymn to the Garnet and the Gold, ringing to the sky. Here's a song for the men and women bold. Sing with heads held high. Striving ere to seek to know, Fight for victory. Alma Mater, this our song to you echoes "F.S.U."
FSU Fight Song You've got to fight, fight, fight, for FSU, You've got to scalp 'em Seminoles, You've got to win, win, win, win this game, And roll on down to make those goals, For FSU is on the warpath now, and at the battle's end she's great. So fight, fight, fight, fight for victory, the Seminoles of Florida State! F-L-O-R-I-D-A S-T-A-T-E! Florida State, Florida State, Florida State, Woooo!
The fight song was written by Florida State music professor, Thomas Wright, who grants rights to the song in exchange for two season tickets every year.[86][87]
The 1950 Florida State University Homecoming half-time show included a dedication ceremony naming the stadium in honor of university President Doak Campbell. There was also a special performance by the band, christening it the Marching Chiefs and premiering the Florida State University Fight Song.
Fifty years later, the FSU Fight Song was used by Mission Control to awaken alumnus and current professor Norm Thagard one morning in 1983 while he was aboard the Challenger spacecraft.
[edit] Campus Expansion
Florida State University has seen considerable expansion and construction since T. K. Wetherell came into office in 2003. Numerous renovations as well as new constructions have been completed or are in the process of completion. These projects include student athletic fields, dormitories, new classroom space as well as research space. Currently the campus is undergoing a revival and beautification of the campuses main spaces.
Abele Chemistry and Research Building
Abele Chemistry and Research Building
King Life Sciences Teaching & Research Center
King Life Sciences Teaching & Research Center
These include:
* Abele Chemistry and Research Building
* College of Education Building Expansion
* College of Engineering Advanced Material Research Building
* College of Law Expansion
* College of Medicine (Thrasher Building)
* Department of Psychology Center
* DeGraff Residence Hall
* Huge Classroom Building
* King Life Sciences Teaching & Research Center
* Marine Science Research and Training Center
* Mike Long Track Performance Complex
* RecSports Intramural Sports Complex
* Student Success Center
* Wildwood Residence Hall
Bolded items are complete or near completion
[edit] Notable alumni
Dodd Hall
Dodd Hall
Main article: List of Florida State University alumni
Florida State University has a large and diverse alumni network, ranging from internationally acclaimed performance artists to U.S. Senators to the chancellors of prestigious universities. FSU has more than 250,000 alumni worldwide represented by 68 or more official clubs, 11 Constituent Groups, and many informal groups and associations.[88]
Florida State University seeks to protect its history through the FSU Heritage Protocol whose mission is "to locate, identify, record, assist in the preservation of, and promote knowledge about the heritage of Florida State University and its predecessor institutions. Students, faculty, staff, administrators, alumni, and friends have expressed this heritage through published, unpublished, audio, and visual materials, memorabilia and ceremonial objects."[89]
[edit] Notable athletic alumni
Main article: List of Florida State University athletic alumni
As a major competitor in college athletics, Florida State University has many notable student athletes, coaches and staff members. Many of the most notable members are listed in FSU's Hall of Fame and represent all major collegiate sports.[90] Currently, 75 FSU alumni compete in professional basketball, football, baseball and golf.[91]
[edit] Notes and references
1. ^ a b [1] State Library and Archives of Florida - The Florida Memory Project Timeline (see 1851) Retrieved on 4-28-2007
2. ^ [2] Foundation's FY 2006 annual reports Retrieved on September 24-2007.
3. ^ a b [3] 2006 NACUBO Endowment Study, © 2007 National Association of College and University Business Officers Retrieved on 5-11-2007.
4. ^ a b c [4] Florida State University Office of Institutional Research, Enrollment and Faculty - FSU student/faculty statistics for fall 2006 Retrieved on 5-11-2007.
5. ^ [5] Florida State University Office of Institutional Research, Percentage Full-Time Employees by EEO Category Fall 1995 through Fall 2006 Retrieved on 5-12-2007.
6. ^ [6] FSU, FAMU continue to see grad-student enrollment go up Retrieved on 11-06-2007.
7. ^ Florida State University Summary of University Properties. Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
8. ^ a b c FSU 2006-2007 General Bulletin Undergraduate Edition. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
9. ^ The Carnegie Foundation: Classifications. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
10. ^ Florida State University - Colleges, Schools, Departments, Institutes, and Administrative Units, Centers, Facilities, Labs & Institutes. Retrieved on 2007-05-12.
11. ^ FSU Pathways of Excellence Ph.D. Programs. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
12. ^ Aaron DeSlatte and Angeline Taylor. "Crist signs differential tuition bill", FloridaToday.com, June 27, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-06-30.
13. ^ "2006 College Tuition and Fees Survey", USA Today, August 30 2006. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
14. ^ "Many of what we now call the flagship campuses were established in the extraordinary period of university building that took place in the United States in the roughly three decades from the mid-1850s to the mid-1880s. Many came into being after the Morrill Act of 1863 provided the federal grants of land to the states to establish public universities. Some states built two institutions, a land-grant college focused on agriculture and the "mechanical arts" as well as general education, and another more directed at classical education and the other professions...These institutions formed the core of the public systems of higher education in their respective states."
Robert M. Berdahl, Chancellor of UC Berkeley (October 5, 1998). Convocation Address. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
15. ^ Senate Bill 1710.
16. ^ "In January of 1851, four schools advertised for students in the Tallahassee paper The Floridian: the Leon Female Academy, the Quincy Male and Female Academy, the Atheneum Classical Institute at Bradford, and Tallahassee High School. From territorial days until 1857 when the West Florida Seminary was finally located in Tallahassee, a series of private schools, tutors, and governesses educated the local white children. Schools for boys came and went until 1850, when the City Council established a Free School for the education of boys. The Free School evolved into the Florida Institute whose lands and buildings were deeded to the State as part of the arrangement for the establishment of the West Florida Seminary at Tallahassee. The education of girls during the same period was more stable due to the existence of the Leon Female Academy which was founded in 1844 and absorbed by the Seminary in 1858, when instruction was opened to girls as well as boys."
Florida State University Special Collections - 1851 Exhibit Introduction:. Retrieved on 2007-07-05.
17. ^ Florida State University Sesquicentennial Celebration. Retrieved on 2007-05-08.
18. ^ a b Florida State University - College Highlights and Selected National Rankings. Retrieved on 2007-05-01.
19. ^ "Section 1. The proceeds of all lands that have been or may hereafter be granted by the United States for the use of Schools, and a Seminary or Seminaries, of learning, shall be and remain a perpetual fund, the interest of which, together with all monies derived from any other source applicable to the same object, shall be inviolably appropriated to the use of Schools and Seminaries of learning respectively, and to no other purpose. Section 2. The General Assembly shall take such measures as may be necessary to preserve from waste or damage all land so granted and appropriated to the purposes of Education. "
State Library and Archives of Florida - The Florida Memory Project, Florida Constitution of 1838, Article X - Education. Retrieved on 2007-05-28.
20. ^ a b c d e History of Florida State University. Office of the Dean of the Faculties (September 5, 2001). Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
21. ^ "Original building of the all male Florida Institute, one predecessor of the West Florida Seminary. Archives metadata: The male academy. Built in 1854, by the city, as an inducement for the legislature to name Tallahassee as the site of the Seminary West of the Suwanee. Operated as the Florida Institute until it became West Florida Seminary in 1857."
State Library and Archives of Florida - Florida Photographic Collection. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
22. ^ Ben Pickard, ed. (1991). Historic Gainesville, A Tour Guide to the Past. Historic Gainesville, Inc.. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
23. ^ "Tallahassee Female Academy circa 187-. Archives metadata: A female academy. West Florida Seminary building on Park Avenue between Duval and Bronough Streets, Tallahassee, Florida" State Library and Archives of Florida - Florida Photographic Collection. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
24. ^ Florida State University Libraries - John L. DeMilly Papers 1877-1879, Historical Note. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
25. ^ "No. 3 was the seminary. Built in 1854. In use 1857, when classes began, until 1891 when it was remolded to College Hall."
State Library and Archives of Florida - Florida Photographic Collection, Map showing location of the West Florida Seminary published 1885.. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
26. ^ "Building given to the seminary at its inception (1857) for classes. Destroyed in 1891 to make way for College Hall."
State Library and Archives of Florida - Florida Photographic Collection, West Florida Seminary circa 1884.. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
27. ^ "Constructed in 1891. Replaced by Westcott in 1909."
State Library and Archives of Florida - Florida Photographic Collection, College Hall at the West Florida Seminary circa 1898.. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
28. ^ [7] State Library and Archives of Florida - The Florida Memory Project Timeline (see 1865) Retrieved on 4-29-2007
29. ^ "West Florida Seminary cadets taking a break."
State Library and Archives of Florida - Florida Photographic Collection, West Florida Seminary Cadets, published circa 187-.. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
30. ^ In 1883 the institution, now long officially known as the West Florida Seminary, was organized by the Board of Education as The Literary College of the University of Florida. Owing to lack of means for the support of this more ambitious project, and also owing to the fact that soon thereafter schools for technical training were established, this association soon dissolved. It remains to be remarked, however, that the legislative act passed in 1885, bestowing upon the institution the title of the University of Florida, has never been repealed. The more pretentious name is not assumed by the college owing to the fact that it does not wish to misrepresent its resources and purposes."
ibid
31. ^ State Library and Archives of Florida - Florida Photographic Collection, Westcott Building at the Florida State College for Women, published 193-.. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
32. ^ Amy McDonald. (2004). Florida State University Libraries Special Collections Department, Inventory of the Florida State College for Women Surveys and Reports (MSS2003003), Biographical/Historical Notes.. Florida State University Libraries. Retrieved on 2007-04-30.
33. ^ Erin VanClay (September 2005). Florida State University Libraries Special Collections Department, Inventory of the Florida State College for Women/Florida State University Phi Beta Kappa Alpha of Florida Chapter. (MSS2005-014) Biographical/Historical Notes.. Florida State University Libraries. Retrieved on 2007-04-30.
34. ^ "The first 507 students went to register for the TBUF program, 1946-47. They were enrolled at Florida State College for Women in 1946. TBUF was created to serve men returning from World War II because there was no room at the state men's college, the University of Florida. They were the first men on campus since 1905."
State Library and Archives of Florida - Florida Photographic Collection, Tallahassee Branch of the University of Florida at the Florida State College for Women circa 1946. Retrieved on 2007-04-30.
35. ^ "She graduated in the transitional class of 1947, when FSCW became the coeducational Florida State University. She was a member of the only class for which both institutional names appear on the diploma."
Personal history of Mary Lou Norwood, FSCW/FSU Alumna, (transitional) Class of 1947 (FSU webpage). Retrieved on 2007-04-30.
36. ^ Florida State University, News Archive, Events'. Retrieved on 2007-04-30.
37. ^ "One of the more notorious fads of the 1970s began on the campus of Florida State. Streaking, which swept the nation in the 1970s, was started in 1974 when about 200 FSU students decided to run naked across the campus one mild March evening."Streaking an FSU First. Florida State Times (April/May 1997). Retrieved on 2007-06-29.
38. ^ "January 15, 1974 was a slow day at the Florida Flambeau. So the editor persuaded four male FSU students to streak naked across Woodward Avenue and the tennis courts, on into a waiting getaway car. Within weeks, the streaking fad had spread across campuses nationwide. To uphold their record as Number 1, FSU students staged mass nude evening rallies in front of the library. But the fad quickly passed, and everyone forgot that it had started in Tallahassee."
Streaking. Tallahassee Naturally, Inc.. Retrieved on 2007-06-29.
39. ^ Florida State University, Center for Participant Education. Retrieved on 2007-04-30.
40. ^ a b c Florida State University - Pathways of Excellence. Florida State University. Retrieved on 2007-05-27.
41. ^ Florida State University - Panama City, Republic of Panama campus. Retrieved on 2007-05-28.
42. ^ a b Welcome to International Programs. Retrieved on 2007-05-28.
43. ^ Title XLVIII, 1004.45(2)(a) 2006 Florida Statutes. Retrieved on 2007-05-02.
44. ^ Peter Paul Rubens, Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries. ArtCyclopedia.com. Retrieved on 2007-05-02.
45. ^ John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Retrieved on 2007-05-02.
46. ^ Museum of Fine Arts at Florida State University. Retrieved on 2007-05-26.
47. ^ FSU 2006-2007 General Bulletin Undergraduate Edition - Limited Access Programs. Retrieved on 2007-04-30.
48. ^ "Young Scholars Get Ahead at FSU Camp", Tallahassee Democrat, June 20, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-06-20.
49. ^ Young Scholars Program @ FSU'. Retrieved on 2007-05-26.
50. ^ Americas Best Colleges. US News. Retrieved on 2007-09-22.
51. ^ Academic Ranking of World Universities 2006. Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2006). Retrieved on 2007-04-15.
52. ^ World University Rankings. The Times Higher Educational Supplement (2006). Retrieved on 2007-04-15.
53. ^ Webometrics Ranking of World Universities. Webometrics (2007). Retrieved on 2007-10-22.
54. ^ The Top American Research Universities: 2006 Annual Report (2006). Retrieved on 2007-04-15.
55. ^ Best Values in Public Colleges. Kiplinger.com. Retrieved on 2007-05-01.
56. ^ "2006 College Tuition and Fees Survey", USA Today, August 30 2006. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
57. ^ [8] Florida State University - FSU.com/EverythingFSU.com, FSU a national beacon for Hispanic students By Molly Smith. Published Feb. 07, 2007 Retrieved on 5-01-2007.
58. ^ a b FSU Trustees Procedures. Retrieved on 2007-07-06.
59. ^ Headcount Summaries by School/College, Fall Semesters. Retrieved on 2007-07-06. Florida State University - Office of Institutional Research
60. ^ About the College. Florida State University College of Medicine. Retrieved on 2007-05-11.
61. ^ State Colleges Getting Choosier. Retrieved on 2007-10-21.
62. ^ Report Shocks Florida Schools. Retrieved on 2007-01-07.
63. ^ Efforts to improve graduation rates showing progress.
64. ^ Tuition increase won't solve all problems. Retrieved on 2007-11-16.
65. ^ Florida State University - Office of Greek Life. Retrieved on 2007-05-05.
66. ^ Florida State University, Campus Recreation - Sport Clubs. Retrieved on 2007-05-08.
67. ^ Corporate media on campus? Florida State University paper sold to Gannett Co. - The Brown Daily Herald, 19 September 2006. Retrieved on 2007-07-06.
68. ^ Florida State University - Television Stations WFSU and WFSG. Retrieved on 2007-05-28.
69. ^ Florida State University - Radio Stations WFSU-FM, WFSQ-FM and WFSW-FM. Retrieved on 2007-05-28.
70. ^ Florida State University - Radio Station WVFS-FM. Retrieved on 2007-05-28.
71. ^ Faculty Honors and Awards. Retrieved on 2007-07-01.
72. ^ Jeff Bauer (1991). A History of Supercomputing at Florida State University. Retrieved on 2007-04-30.
73. ^ Hypolithic Algae at Johnson Canyon-Death Valley Sample Collection of March 5-7, 1997. Retrieved on 2007-07-10.
74. ^ E. Imre Friedmann, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor and Director, Polar Desert Research Center. Retrieved on 2007-07-10.
75. ^ a b National High Magnetic Field Laboratory - Media Center Fact Sheets - Records. Retrieved on 2007-05-23.
76. ^ JoAnne Graff. Retrieved on 2007-09-24.
77. ^ a b ACC Rivalries. Retrieved on 2007-07-24.
78. ^ a b Profile: Bobby Bowden. Seminoles.com. Retrieved on 2007-06-30.
79. ^ 3peatTrojans's SportingBlog: The Great College Football Debates: Coaches pt.3. SportingNews.com. Retrieved on 2007-07-06.
80. ^ Florida State University, Student Profiles - Garrett Johnson. Retrieved on 2007-05-08.
81. ^ Track & Field: FSU Wins Back-to-Back National Titles. Seminoles.com. Retrieved on 2007-06-09.
82. ^ State Library and Archives of Florida - Florida Photographic Collection, West Florida Seminary Football Team at College Hall, published 1899. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
83. ^ The Argo of the Seminary West of the Suwanee, Tallahassee, FL (circa 1900), page 28 (image 33). Retrieved on 2007-05-08.
84. ^ Florida State University Sesquicentennial Celebration 1851-2001, History 1851-1905 Student Life. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
85. ^ Florida State University, University Relations, FSU Seminole Traditions - War Chant. Retrieved on 2007-05-11.
86. ^ Florida State University - Fight Song (lyrics by Doug Alley, music by Thomas Wright)'. Retrieved on 2007-05-25.
87. ^ The History of the War Chant. Retrieved on 2007-05-28.
88. ^ Florida State University, Alumni Association - Seminole Clubs. Retrieved on 2007-07-01.
89. ^ Florida State University, Alumni Association - Heritage Protocol Mission Statement. Retrieved on 2007-07-01.
90. ^ Florida State University, Seminoles.Com website for FSU Athletics - FSU Hall of Fame. Retrieved on 2007-07-01.
91. ^ Noles in the Pros. Seminoles.Com. Retrieved on 2007-07-01.
[edit] Further reading
[edit] Books
* Adams, Alfred Hugh (1962). A History of Public Higher Education in Florida, 1821‑1961. Florida State University.
* Bush, George G. (1898). History of Education in Florida. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Bureau of Education, Circular of Information 1888, # 7.
* Campbell, Doak Sheridan (1964). A University in Transition: Florida State College for Women and Florida State University, 1941‑1957. Florida State University.
* Dodd, William George (1948). "Early Education in Tallahassee and the West Florida Seminary, Now Florida State University". Florida Historical Quarterly (XXVII): 1‑27.
* Dodd, William George (1952). History of West Florida Seminary. Florida State University. B0007E7WRS.
* Dodd, William George (1952). West Florida Seminary, 1857‑1901; Florida State College, 1901‑1905. Tallahassee: none.
* Dodd, William George (1958-1959). Florida State College for Women, Notes on the Formative Years (1905‑1920)‑‑With a Postscript: The Twenties; and Epilogue: The Forties 1940‑1944. Tallahassee: none.
* McGrotha, Bill (1987). Seminoles! The First Forty Years. Tallahassee Democrat.
* Sellers, Robin Jeanne (1995). Femina perfecta: The genesis of Florida State University. FSU Foundation. ISBN 0964837412.
[edit] External links
* Florida State University (main website)
* FSU Athletics
As one of Florida's primary graduate research universities,[11] Florida State University awards over 2,000 graduate and professional degrees each year.[12] Florida State is one of two flagship universities in the State University System of Florida.[1][13][14] In 2007 Florida State was placed in the first tier of research universities by the Florida Legislature, a distinction allowing FSU, along with the University of Florida, to charge 40% higher tuition than other institutions in the State University System of Florida.[15] While FSU was officially established in 1851 and is located on the oldest continuous site of higher education in the state of Florida, at least one predecessor institution[16] may be traced back to 1843, two years before Florida was admitted as a state in the United States.[8][17]
Florida State University is also home to nationally ranked programs in many academic areas, including the sciences, social policy, film, engineering, the Arts, business, politics, medicine and law.[18] Florida State is home to Florida's only National Laboratory - the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory as well as being the birthplace of the commercially-viable anti-cancer drug Taxol. The Florida State University athletics programs are favorites of passionate students, fans and alumni across the United States, especially when led by the Marching Chiefs of the FSU College of Music. Florida State is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference and has won eleven national athletic championships as well as multiple individual competitor NCAA championship awards.
Contents
[hide]
* 1 History
* 2 Pathways of Excellence
* 3 Campus
o 3.1 Satellite campus
o 3.2 International programs
o 3.3 Collections
o 3.4 University Center
* 4 Academics
o 4.1 Rankings
* 5 Organization
o 5.1 Colleges
* 6 Students
o 6.1 Student housing
o 6.2 Student life
+ 6.2.1 Dining
+ 6.2.2 Activities
+ 6.2.3 Media
* 7 Faculty and research
o 7.1 Taxol
o 7.2 National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
* 8 Athletics
o 8.1 Seminole name
o 8.2 Seminole Baseball
o 8.3 Seminole Football and Bobby Bowden
o 8.4 Men’s Track & Field
* 9 Traditions
o 9.1 Marching Chiefs
o 9.2 School songs
* 10 Campus Expansion
* 11 Notable alumni
o 11.1 Notable athletic alumni
* 12 Notes and references
* 13 Further reading
o 13.1 Books
* 14 External links
[edit] History
Main article: History of Florida State University
West Florida Seminary main building, circa 1880. Built in 1854 as the Florida Institute. This building was replaced with College Hall in 1891. The Westcott Building now stands on this site - the oldest site of higher education in Florida
West Florida Seminary main building, circa 1880. Built in 1854 as the Florida Institute. This building was replaced with College Hall in 1891. The Westcott Building now stands on this site - the oldest site of higher education in Florida
Florida State University traces its origins to a plan set by the 1823 Territorial Legislature of Florida to create a system of higher education. The 1838 Florida Constitution codified the basic system by providing for land allocated for the schools.[19] In 1851 the Florida Legislature established two seminaries of higher education on opposite banks of the Suwannee River.[20] Francis W. Eppes and other city leaders established an all-male academy called the Florida Institute in Tallahassee as a legislative inducement to locate the West Florida Seminary in Tallahassee.[21] The eastern seminary, located in Ocala, FL, was established in 1853 but closed during the American Civil War. It reopened in 1866 in Gainesville, FL and would eventually be combined with other schools to form what would be called the University of Florida in 1906.[22]
Francis W. Eppes VII
Francis W. Eppes VII
In 1856, the area surrounding Gallows Hill – where the Florida Institute was built – was accepted as the site of the state seminary for not only male students but also absorbing the Tallahassee Female Academy founded in 1843 as the Misses Bates School.[23][24] The West Florida Seminary stood near the front of the Westcott Building on the existing FSU campus, making this site the oldest continually used location of higher learning in Florida.[25][26][27]
During the Civil War, the seminary became the The Florida Military and Collegiate Institute. Cadets from the school defeated Union forces at the Battle of Natural Bridge in 1865, leaving Tallahassee as the only Confederate capital east of the Mississippi River not to fall to Union forces.[28][29] After the fall of the Confederacy, campus buildings were occupied by Union forces and the West Florida Seminary reverted to its academic role awarding its first diplomas (Licentiates of Instruction) in 1884. The seminary was renamed the University of Florida by the Florida Legislature in 1885, but the title was never embraced due to lack of funding.[20][30]
College Hall, circa 1903
College Hall, circa 1903
By the turn of the century, the seminary increasingly focused on post-secondary education and became the first liberal arts college in Florida after it was reorganized into the Florida State College with four departments (the College, the College Academy, the School for Teachers and the School of Music) in 1901.[20] The 1905 Buckman Act, named after Henry Holland Buckman, reorganized the Florida college system into a school for Caucasian males, a school for Caucasian females (Florida State College for Women), and a school for African Americans.[31] By 1933 the Florida State College for Women had grown to be the third largest women’s college in the United States and was the first state women's college in the South to be awarded a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, as well as the first university in Florida so honored.[32][33]
Westcott Building, circa 1933
Westcott Building, circa 1933
The influx of G.I. Bill students after World War II stressed the state university system to the point that a Tallahassee Branch of the University of Florida (TBUF) was opened on the campus of the Florida State College for Women and the men were housed in barracks on Dale Mabry Field.[20][34] By 1947 the Florida Legislature returned the FSCW to coeducational status and renamed the Florida State College for Women Florida State University.[35] The FSU West Campus land and barracks plus other areas continually used as an airport later became the location of the Tallahassee Community College.
Chemistry lab in 1900
Chemistry lab in 1900
The post-war years brought substantial growth and development to the university as many departments colleges were added including Business, Journalism (discontinued in 1959), Library Science, Nursing and Social Welfare.[8] Strozier Library, Tully Gymnasium and the original parts of the Business building were also built at this time.
During the 1960s and 1970s Florida State University became a center for student activism especially in the areas of racial integration, women's rights and opposition to the Vietnam War. The school acquired the nickname 'Berkeley of the South'[36] during this period, in reference to similar student activities at the University of California, Berkeley and is also purported to be the site of the genesis of "streaking," which is said to have first been observed on Landis Green.[37][38] Governor Claude Kirk once spent a night on Landis Green, in the center of campus, discussing politics with protesting students. The Center for Participant Education was established in 1970 as an alternative to traditional university academics to allow students to "explore socially relevant topics and to foster a healthier philosophy of education through classes in which anyone could teach or attend. Since then, CPE has been investigated by the Legislature, suspended by the Board of Regents, and challenged by FSU administration. CPE has managed to hold strong through all of this, and remains today as one of the last free universities in the country."[39] Florida State also established the Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Space Biosciences and the Programs in Medical Studies. In 1962, the first African American student enrolled at the university and the first African American Ph.D. students graduated in 1970.
[edit] Pathways of Excellence
Landis Hall on Landis Green. (Honors residence hall)
Landis Hall on Landis Green. (Honors residence hall)
The strategic vision of Florida State University, known as Pathways of Excellence, changed in September 2005 as the result of an evaluation of "FSU’s academic productivity and recognition as viewed in the context of the Phase I and Phase II indicators for membership in the Association of American Universities (AAU) and the standards used by the National Research Council for evaluating doctoral programs."[40] The task group made recommendations, on which FSU President Wetherell acted, which are intended to have a transformational effect on the scholarly productivity of the university. The faculty group created specific goals for the university which include substantial investment in new university faculty hired in "academic clusters"[40] focused principally on doctoral-level research. Coupled with this investment in 200 new faculty members is an aggressive expansion of the physical infrastructure of the university.[40] To date, new construction is underway or recently completed for a new Experimental Social Science Laboratory, a College of Medicine Research Building, a new Psychology Building, a new Chemistry Building, a new Life Sciences Teaching and Research Building and a new Materials Research Building. Other existing research facilities at the university have been renovated, including the Nancy Smith Fichter Dance Theatre, the Kasha Laboratory of the Institute of Molecular Biophysics plus enhancements to the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and a new Applied Superconductivity Center.
[edit] Campus
Landis Green is located in the center of the main campus.
Landis Green is located in the center of the main campus.
Going onto the main campus of Florida State University from any of the governmental buildings in downtown Tallahassee, Florida is not difficult, as the main campus is located to the west of this downtown area. The main campus covers 489 acres (2.0 km²) of land including Heritage Grove and contains over 5,000,000 square feet (465,000 m²) of buildings. Florida State University owns more than 1,500 acres (6 km²). The campus is bordered by Stadium Drive to the west, Tennessee Street (U.S. Route 90) to the north, Macomb Street to the east, and Gaines Street to the south. Located on College Avenue, the Wescott building is perhaps the school's most prominent structure.
Also, Doak Campbell Stadium, now named Bobby Bowden Field at Doak S. Campbell Stadium, which seats approximately 83,000 spectators, the University Center Buildings, Dick Howser Stadium as well as other athletic buildings and fields are located off of Stadium Drive in the southwest quadrant.
The historic student housing residence halls include Broward, Bryan, Cawthon, Gilchrist, Jennie Murphree, Landis and Reynolds are located on the eastern half of campus. There are three new residence hall complexes; Ragans and Wildwood that are located near the athletic quadrant and DeGraff hall located on Tennessee Street.
On and around the Florida State University campus there are seven libraries; Dirac Science Library named after the Nobel Prize winning physicist and Florida State University professor Paul Dirac, Strozier Library, Maguire Medical Library, Law Library, Engineering Library, Allen Music Library and the Goldstein information library.
Right next to the Donald L. Tucker Center, the College of Law is located between Jefferson Street and Pensacola Street. The College of Business sits in the heart of campus near the Oglesby Student Union and across from the new Huge Classroom Building (HCB). The Science and research quad is located in the northwest quadrant of campus. The College of Medicine, King Life Science buildings (biology) as well as the Department of Psychology are located on the west end of campus on Call Street and Stadium Drive.
Doak Campbell Stadium, The University Center Buildings, Dick Howser Stadium as well as other athletic buildings and fields are located off of Stadium Drive in the southwest quadrant. The historic student housing residence halls include Broward, Bryan, Cawthon, Gilchrist, Jennie Murphree, Landis and Reynolds are located on the eastern half of campus. There are three new residence hall complexes; Ragans and Wildwood that are located near the athletic quadrant and DeGraff hall located on Tennessee Street.
A view of FSU from the Capitol Building
A view of FSU from the Capitol Building
Being a major university campus, the Florida State University campus is also home to Heritage Grove, Florida State's Greek Community, located a short walk up the St. Marks Trail. Additional to the main campus, the FSU Southwest campus encompasses another 850 acres (3.4 km²) of land off of Orange Drive. The southwest campus currently houses the College of Engineering which is housed in a two building joint facility with the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. In addition to the College of Engineering, The Dave Middleton Golf Complex Don Veller Seminole golf course and club are located here. The FSU Research Foundation buildings as well as the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory are located in Innovation Park and the Alumni Village, family style student housing are located off of Levy. Flastacowo Road Leads to the FSU Reservation, a student lakeside retreat on Lake Bradford.
A greenspace near Landis and Gilchrist residence halls, on the main campus
A greenspace near Landis and Gilchrist residence halls, on the main campus
In August, a new 104-acre (0.4 km²) RecSports Plex opened located on Tyson Road. This intramural sports complex will become the largest in the collegiate world with twelve Football fields, five Softball fields, four club (Soccer) fields as well as Basketball and Volleyball courts
The addition of the Southwest Tallahassee campus in recent years has expanded campus space to over 1,100 acres (4 km²).
[edit] Satellite campus
Main article: Florida State University Panama City
Located just 100 miles (160 km) from the main campus in Tallahassee. Continuing its pledge to academic excellence, FSU Panama City is committed to providing area students with a quality education from a nationally-accredited university. Beginning in the early 1980s. Since that time the campus has grown to almost 1,500 students supported by 15 bachelor’s and 19 graduate degree programs.
With a firm commitment to the needs of Northwest Florida, fall 2000 marked the debut of full-time daytime programs offered at FSU Panama City. This scheduling, coupled with programs offered in the evenings, serves to accommodate the needs of its diverse student population. In addition, over 30 resident faculty have been hired to meet these program demands. A waterfront setting is one of this campus’s most striking attributes. Nestled among oaks along the waters of North Bay and only three miles from the Gulf of Mexico the Florida State University Panama City campus offers upper-division undergraduate courses as well as some graduate and specialist degree programs.
Since opening in 1982, 4,000+ have graduated from the degrees ranging from elementary education to engineering. All courses are taught by faculty members from the main FSU campus at a ratio of 25 students to each faculty member.
[edit] International programs
For over 50 years Florida State University has operated a broad curriculum program in Panama City of the Republic of Panama.[41] Students have full facilities, including the largest English-language library in the Republic of Panama, academic counseling, computer facilities, housing, research facilities, a gymnasium, and a cafeteria. The student population is generally international and comes from the United States, the Republic of Panama and other countries.
Florida State University also operates international programs in Florence, Italy; London, England and Valencia, Spain.[42]. It also offers international programs abroad in Cairns, Australia; Salvador, Brazil; Tianjin, China; San Jose, Costa Rica; Dubrovnik, Croatia; Prague, Czech Republic; Napo, Ecuador; London, England and Oxford, England; Paris, France; Dublin, Ireland; Florence, Italy; Tokyo, Japan; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Panama City, Panama; Moscow, Russia; Valencia, Spain; and Leysin, Switzerland.[42]
[edit] Collections
Ringling Museum of Art
Ringling Museum of Art
Florida State University maintains and operates The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art located in Sarasota, FL, which is recognized as the official State Art Museum of Florida.[43] The institution offers twenty-one galleries of European paintings as well as Cypriot antiquities and Asian, American, and contemporary art. The museum's art collection currently consists of more than 10,000 objects that include a wide variety of paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, and decorative arts from ancient through contemporary periods and from around the world. The most celebrated items in the museum are 16th, 17th, and 18th century European paintings, including a world-renowned collection of Peter Paul Rubens paintings.[44] The Ringling Museum collections constitute the largest university museum complex in the United States.[45]
Florida State University also maintains the FSU Museum of Fine Arts (MoFA) in Tallahassee. The MoFA permanent collection consists of over 4000 items in 18 sub-collections ranging from pre-Columbian pottery to contemporary art.[46]
Heritage Tower at University Center
Heritage Tower at University Center
[edit] University Center
Doak Campbell Stadium is a unique venue in collegiate football. It is contained within the brick facade walls of University Center, a vast complex that houses the offices of the University, the Registrar, School of Hospitality as well as numerous other offices and classrooms.
* The University Center A (East wing)
Building A houses the offices of the Registrar, Financial Aid, Admissions and Dean of Students. The Career Center is also located here until it is moved to the new Student Success Center. The Award Winning Film School is Located in the 2nd wing of Building A. The top two floors are home to Skyboxes
* The University Center B (South Wing)
Building B holds the Seminole Sportshop as well as Visitor Services. UCB is also home to the University Center Club and to the Osceola Sports Grill, the ultimate way to watch a Seminole Football game. The highly ranked Dedman School of Hospitality is located on the second floor of Building B.
* The University Center C (West Wing)
Building C is home to the College of Communication, Florida State Testing Center as well as the College of Social Work. The Athletics Ticket office is also located here as are many of the offices of Seminole Boosters. Floor nine is home to the Press Boxes with two floors of Skyboxes below.
* Moore Athletic Center (University Center D)
Located on the North Side of Doak Campbell, the athletic center houses nearly all of the athletic offices as well as some classrooms and lecture halls. Visitors are welcomed into the Great Hall showcasing the best of Seminole Athletics. The two National Championship Football trophies are on display for all to see.
[edit] Academics
Westcott Building circa 2003
Westcott Building circa 2003
The FSU Honors Program is a specially designed program for the most accomplished incoming undergraduates. Undergraduates in Honors participate in smaller classes with faculty, including individual research programs or assigned research in the area of the sponsoring faculty member. Admission to Honors is competitive. The FSU Honors Medical and Law early-admission, professional-track programs are designed to facilitate faster access to professional programs for the limited number of students who meet required standards. Honors students are eligible for the Honors residence hall and associated administrative benefits.
A number of undergraduate academic programs at Florida State University are termed "Limited Access Programs". Limited Access Programs are programs where student demand exceeds available resources thus making admission to such programs sometimes extremely competitive. Examples of limited access programs include The Florida State University Film School, the College of Communication, several majors in the College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance and all majors in the College of Business.[47]
FSU Young Scholars Program (YSP) is a residential science and mathematics program for 40 Florida high-school students with potential for careers in the sciences, engineering, and health professions.[48][49]
[edit] Rankings
Florida State University currently ranks 52nd among national public universities and 112th overall by U.S. News and World Report giving it Tier One status,[50] ranks in the top 200 among world universities, among the top 100 American universities, and in the top 90 among universities in the United States by The Academic Ranking of World Universities,[51] 294th among world universities by The Times Higher Education Supplement,[52] 50th among American universities by Webometrics, [53] and in the 9th tier among national public universities by The Center for Measuring University Performance.[54] Florida State University was ranked 16th nationally in the February 2007 edition of Kiplinger's Best Values in Public Colleges.[55] FSU is the second least expensive flagship university in the U.S., according to USATODAY.[56]
Many of FSU's academic programs rank among the nation’s top twenty-five public universities, including programs in Business (Real Estate, Risk Management/Insurance, Entrepreneurial Studies), Chemistry, Creative Writing, Criminology, Dance, Education, Film, Human Sciences, Hospitality, Information Technology, Law, Meteorology, Music, Oceanography, Physics, Political Science, Public Administration and Policy, Social Work, Spanish, Theatre, Urban Planning, and Visual Art.[18][57]
[edit] Organization
The D'Alemberte Rotunda, part of FSU's College of Law, is used to host special events and in the past has been used by the Florida Supreme Court to convene special sessions
The D'Alemberte Rotunda, part of FSU's College of Law, is used to host special events and in the past has been used by the Florida Supreme Court to convene special sessions
As a part of the State University System of Florida, Florida State University falls under the purview of the Florida Board of Governors. However, a 13-member Board of trustees is "vested with the authority to govern and set policy for The Florida State University as necessary to provide proper governance and improvement of the University in accordance with law and rules of the Florida Board of Governors."[58] Thomas Kent "T.K." Wetherell was appointed president in 2003, succeeding Talbot D'Alemberte, and is responsible for day-to-day operation and administration of the university.[58]
Florida State University has a $522 million endowment.[3]
[edit] Colleges
Florida State University offers Associate, Bachelor, Masters, Specialist, Doctoral, and Professional degree programs through its sixteen colleges. The most popular Colleges by enrollment are Arts and Sciences, Business, Social Sciences, Education, and Human Science.[59]
College of Medicine
College of Medicine
The Florida State University College of Medicine operates using diversified community-based clinical education medical training for medical students. The students spend their first two years taking basic science courses on the FSU campus in Tallahassee and are then assigned to one of the regional medical school campuses for their third- and fourth-year clinical training. Rotations can be done at one of the six regional campuses in Daytona Beach, FL, Fort Pierce, FL, Orlando, FL, Pensacola, FL, Sarasota, FL or stay in Tallahassee if they so choose.[60]
Colleges at Florida State include:
* College of Arts & Sciences
* College of Business
* College of Communication
* College of Criminology & Criminal Justice
* College of Education
* College of Engineering
* College of Human Sciences
* College of Information
* College of Law
* College of Medicine
* College of Motion Picture, Television & Recording Arts
* College of Music
* College of Nursing
* College of Social Sciences
* College of Social Work
* College of Visual Arts, Theatre & Dance
[edit] Students
Reynolds and Jennie Murphree residence halls
Reynolds and Jennie Murphree residence halls
Cawthon residence hall
Cawthon residence hall
Florida State University enrolled 31,058 undergraduates and 9,416 graduate and professional students in 2006. Tuition was $3,175 (in-state) and $16,306 (out-of-state) per term. The Fall 2007 enrolled freshmen class had an average GPA of 3.8; an average SAT of 1218 and an average ACT of 27. The freshman acceptance rate for the Fall 2007 semester was 48%.[61] FSU has a 68% six-year graduation rate compared to the national average six-year graduation rate of 53%.[62][63] FSU's freshman retention rate is 90%.[64]
[edit] Student housing
Florida State University is a traditional residential university wherein most students live on campus in university residence halls or nearby in privately-owned residence halls, apartments and residences. Florida State currently has 17 residence halls on campus, housing undergraduate, graduate and international students. Residence halls offer suite style, apartment style, and corridor style accommodations. On-campus housing is generally preferred by many students as automobile parking on or near campus can become a competitive effort. There are many off-campus housing options throughout Tallahassee for students to choose from. All housing at Florida State University has high-speed Internet access, except for Alumni Village. This high-speed Internet access is necessary for students for academic and administrative activities. Students who are members of the active university Greek Life system at FSU may live in chapter housing near campus.[65]
Bryan Hall, oldest building on campus
Bryan Hall, oldest building on campus
Undergraduate housing
Renovated historic student housing residence halls located on the eastern half of campus include Broward, Bryan, Cawthon, Gilchrist, Jennie Murphree, Landis and Reynolds. These halls also have mandatory meal membership requirements. Deviney and Dorman are also located on the eastern half of campus. There are three new residence hall complexes; Ragans and Wildwood that are located near the athletic quadrant and Degraff hall located on Tennessee Street. Kellum, Smith, McCollum and Salley halls are located in the northwestern quadrant.
Graduate housing
Graduate and married students may live in off-campus housing known as Alumni Village located in the Southwest campus. On-campus housing for single graduate students includes Rogers hall and Ragans hall.
Wildwood Hall, constructed 2006
Wildwood Hall, constructed 2006
Ragans Hall, apartment style Residence Hall
Ragans Hall, apartment style Residence Hall
[edit] Student life
[edit] Dining
Dine-in university-contracted campus dining facilities exist. (provided by Aramark). The Suwannee Room dining hall in the William Johnston Building located on the east side of campus was remodeled to its original condition. Fresh Food Company is a buffet style dining facility located across from the College of Medicine to the west end of campus. In the center of campus there is Park Avenue Diner which is open 24 hours a day. Located in the student union are Chili’s, Hardee’s, Pollo Tropical, Miso Chinese, Quiznos, and Einstein Bros. Bagles. Some residence halls require students to participate in a campus meal plan.
[edit] Activities
Crenshaw Lanes is a twelve lane bowling alley and includes ten full sized billiard tables. It has been at FSU since 1964.
Club Downunder includes entertainment acts such as bands and comedians. Past bands that have come through Club Downunder include The White Stripes, Modest Mouse, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Death Cab for Cutie.
The Askew Student Life building is home to the Student Life Cinema. It features five to six nights a week playing movies, documentaries, indies, foreign films, and restored cinema movies. Movies are selected by an all-student committee and are free to all currently-enrolled FSU students.
The Student Life Building also has games and a cybercafe. The cybercafe hosts Super Smash Bros. tournaments and other gaming tournaments.
Florida State also has a Intramural Sports program.[66] Sports clubs include equestrian and water sailing. the clubs compete against other Intercollegiate club teams around the country. Intramural sports include flag football, basketball, wiffle ball, anddodge ball.
A new area of intramural sports fields, named the104-acre (0.4 km²) RecSports Plex, was opened in September 2007. This intramural sports complex is the largest in the nation with twelve Football fields, five Softball fields, four Soccer fields as well as Basketball and Volleyball courts.
The Florida States Reservation is located off campus. This lakeside retreat on Lake Bradford has canoe and kayak rentals as well as a rock climbing wall and a zipline course.
[edit] Media
FSU radio and television logo
FSU radio and television logo
The campus newspaper, the FSView & Florida Flambeau', publishes weekly during the summer and semiweekly on Mondays and Thursdays during the school year. After changing hands three times in 13 years, the FSView was sold to the Tallahassee Democrat in late July 2006, making it part of the Gannett chain.[67] FSView also produces Edge Magazine, geared towards students, advertisements for local establishments, and a "Tally Girl" model. Florida State University, through its Broadcast Center, operates two television stations, WFSU and WFSG,[68] and three radio stations, WFSU-FM, WFSQ-FM and WFSW-FM.[69] FSU operates a fourth radio station, WVFS (V89, "The Voice", or "The Voice of Florida State"), as an on-campus instructional radio station staffed by student and community volunteers.[70] WVFS broadcasts experimental music as an alternative to regular radio.
[edit] Faculty and research
Professors E. Imre Friedmann, left, and Roseli Friedmann.
Professors E. Imre Friedmann, left, and Roseli Friedmann.
Main article: List of Florida State University faculty
Florida State University employs 2,291 faculty members and 5,942 staff. The faculty of Florida State University include recipients of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, Guggenheim Fellowships, Academy Awards, and other accolades. Florida State is represented by faculty serving in a number of renowned Academies, Associations and Societies.[71] Florida State was home to the first ETA10-G/8 supercomputer[72] and developed the anti-cancer drug Taxol.
Professor E. Imre Friedmann and researcher Dr. Roseli Friedmann demonstrated primitive life could survive in rocks, establishing the potential for life on other planets.[73][74]
[edit] Taxol
Main article: Taxol
A number of US groups, including one led by Robert A. Holton, attempted a total synthesis of the molecule, starting from petrochemical-derived starting materials. This work was primarily motivated as a way of generating chemical knowledge, rather than with any expectation of developong a practical production technique. By contrast the French group of Pierre Potier at the CNRS quickly recognised the problem of yield. His laboratory was on a campus populated by the related yew Taxus baccata, so that needles were available locally in large quantity.
By 1988, and particularly with Potier's publication, it was clear to Holton too that a practical semi-synthetic production route would be important. By late 1989, Holton's group had developed a semisynthetic route to paclitaxel with twice the yield of the Potier process. Florida State University, where Holton worked, signed a deal with Bristol-Myers Squibb to license this and future patents. In 1992, Holton patented an improved process with an 80% yield.
[edit] National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
NHMFL logo
NHMFL logo
The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) or "Mag Lab" at Florida State University develops and operates high magnetic field facilities that scientists use for research in physics, biology, bioengineering, chemistry, geochemistry, biochemistry, materials science, and engineering. It is the only facility of its kind in the United States and one of only nine in the world. Eight world records have been set at the Mag Lab to date.[75]
The NHMFL is a 30,658 square meter (330,000 sq. ft) complex employing 300 faculty, staff, graduate, and postdoctoral students. The NHMFL is the only national laboratory in the State of Florida and one of nine high field laboratories in the world. This facility is the largest and highest powered laboratory of its kind in the world and produces the highest continuous magnetic fields. FSU and the University of Florida won the laboratory from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1990.[75]
[edit] Athletics
FSU athletic symbol
FSU athletic symbol
Main article: Florida State Seminoles
Florida State University is known for its competitive athletics for both men's and women's sports. The men's program consists of baseball, basketball, cross country running, football, golf, swimming, tennis, and track & field. The women's program consists of basketball, cross country running, golf, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track & field, and volleyball.
Facilities
There are two major stadiums and an arena within FSU's main campus; Doak Campbell Stadium for football, Dick Howser Stadium for men’s baseball, and the Donald L. Tucker Center for men’s and women’s basketball.
Unconquered:A Seminole warrior statue in front of Doak Campbell Stadium honors the unconquered spirit of the Seminole people. During football season, the torch at the end of the spear is lit on the Friday preceding a football game.
Unconquered:A Seminole warrior statue in front of Doak Campbell Stadium honors the unconquered spirit of the Seminole people. During football season, the torch at the end of the spear is lit on the Friday preceding a football game.
Mike Long Track is the home of the two-time back-to-back national champion men’s track and field team. Following their championship on 2007, a new three building complex broke ground on the corner of Spirit Way and Chieftain Way on the southern end of the track.
H. Donald Loucks courts at the Speicher Tennis Center is the home for FSU tennis. By presidential directive the complex was named in honor of Lieutenant Commander Michael Scott Speicher, a graduate of Florida State University and the first American casualty during Operation Desert Storm.
The Seminole Soccer Complex is home to women’s soccer. It normally holds a capacity of 1,600 people but has seen crowds in excess of 4,500 for certain games. The home record is 4,582 for last year’s game versus Florida.
The Seminole softball team plays at the Seminole Softball Complex; the field is named for JoAnne Graf, the winningest coach in softball history.[76]
Intercollegiate Sports
FSU's Intercollegiate Club sports include Bowling, Crew, Rugby, Soccer and Lacrosse. Harkins Field is an artificial turf field that is home to the nationally ranked Lacrosse team as well as the Marching Chiefs as well a practice field for the FSU Football team.
Rivals
Florida State's traditional rivals in all sports include the University of Florida Gators, the University of Miami Hurricanes, the Bowden Bowl with the Clemson University Tigers as well as the University of Virginia Cavaliers and the battle for the Jefferson-Eppes Trophy.[77] Rivalries in some other sports also exist, including the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in baseball and the Duke University Blue Devils in basketball.[77]
[edit] Seminole name
The school's athletic teams are called the Seminoles. This Native American name is used with official sanction of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Inc. and the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. They participate in the NCAA's Division I (Bowl Subdivision for football) and in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
[edit] Seminole Baseball
Seminole baseball is one of the most successful collegiate baseball programs in the United States having been to 18 College World Series, and having appeared in the national championship final on three occasions (falling to the University of Southern California Trojans in 1970, the University of Arizona Wildcats in 1986, and the University of Miami Hurricanes in 1999). Under the command of Head Coach Mike Martin (FSU 1966), Florida State is the second-winningest program in the history of college baseball. Since 1990, FSU has had more 50 win seasons, headed to more NCAA Tournaments (19 Regional Tournaments in 20 years), and finished in the top 10 more than any team in the United States. Since 2000, FSU is the winningest program in college baseball with more victories and a higher winning percentage in the regular season than any other school. Despite their regular-season success, Florida State is still chasing their first College World Series Championship.
[edit] Seminole Football and Bobby Bowden
Main article: Florida State Seminoles football
Florida State College football 1902
Florida State College football 1902
Florida State University football is one of the 119 NCAA Division I-A collegiate football teams in America. The first Florida State football team was fielded in the 1899 season and lasted until the 1904 season. The team went (7-6-1) over the 1902-1904 seasons posting a record of (3-1) against their rivals from the Florida Agricultural College in Lake City, FL. In 1904 the Florida State football team became the first ever state champions of Florida after beating both the Florida Agricultural College and Stetson University. The football team and all male students subsequently moved to the newly opened University of Florida in Gainesville in 1906 as a result of the 1905 Buckman Act.
Florida State Football Practice Fields
Florida State Football Practice Fields
Under head coach Bobby Bowden, currently in his 32nd year, the Seminole football team became one of the nation's most competitive football teams, greatly expanding the tradition of football at Florida State.[78] The Seminoles played in five national championship games between 1993 and 2001, and have claimed the championship twice, in 1993 and 1999 . The FSU football team was the most successful team in college football during the 1990s, boasting an 89% winning percentage.[79] FSU also set an NCAA record for most consecutive Top 5 finishes in the AP football poll - receiving placement 14 years in a row, from 1987 to 2000. The Seminoles were the first college football team in history to go wire-to-wire (ranked first place from preseason to postseason) since the AP began releasing preseason rankings in 1936. FSU also owns the record for most consecutive Bowl game victories with 11 between 1985 and 1996.[78] The Seminole Football team has also won 15 Conference championships in the Dixie and Atlantic Coast.
FSU Football head coach Bobby Bowden is the Division I leader in the NCAA with 372 career wins, followed by Penn State's Joe Paterno with 370. FSU football is well-known for introducing talented players into the NFL, including Deion Sanders, Terrell Buckley, Derrick Brooks, Sebastian Janikowski, Walter Jones, Corey Simon, Anquan Boldin, Javon Walker, Warrick Dunn, Peter Boulware, Laverneus Coles, Brad Johnson, Samari Rolle, Houston Barber and many other players in recent history.
The Sod Cemetery
Florida State Football's Sod Cemetery is the final resting place for 75 "Sod Games"
Florida State Football's Sod Cemetery is the final resting place for 75 "Sod Games"
In 1962, the FSU football team captains returned to Tallahassee with a piece of the turf from Sanford Stadium after beating Georgia 18-0 in Athens. The turf was presented to Dean Coyle E. Moore who founded the tradition of the sod game.
The sod cemetery began when the first piece of sod was buried in the corner of the Florida State practice field and a monument was placed to commemorate the road victory. In the early years, FSU only snipped grass when it won by upset on the road. But as the Seminoles became more successful, the criteria changed. Sod games still represent road games won when FSU is a significant underdog, however, all bowl games are now considered sod games as well as landmark road wins no matter who was favored. Each piece of sod is buried in the cemetery next to the practice field and a tombstone is placed above it with the score and date of the game.
[edit] Men’s Track & Field
The FSU men's Track & Field team won the Atlantic Coast Conference championship three times running, and the NCAA National Championship in back to back years. IN 2006 Head Coach Bob Braman and Associate Head Coach Harlis Meaders helped lead individual champions in the 200 m (Walter Dix), the triple jump (Raqeef Curry), and the shot put (Garrett Johnson). Individual runners-up were Walter Dix in the 100 m, Ricardo Chambers in the 400 m, and Tom Lancashire in the 1500 m. Others scoring points in the National Championship were Michael Ray Garvin in the 200 m (8th),Andrew Lemoncello in the 3000 m steeplechase (4th), Raqeef Curry in the long jump (6th), and Garrett Johnson in the discus (5th).[80] In 2007, FSU won its second straight men's Track & Field NCAA National Championship when Dix became the first person to hold the individual title in the 100 m, 200 m, and 400 m at the same time.[81]
[edit] Traditions
Students study surveying and engineering in 1900
Students study surveying and engineering in 1900
The school's colors are garnet and gold. The colors of garnet and gold represent a merging of the university's past. While the school fielded a football team as early, or earlier than 1899,[82] in 1902, 1903 and 1905 the team won football championships wearing purple and gold uniforms.[20][83] When FSC became Florida State College for Women in 1905, the football team and fraternity system was forced to attend the now all male school in Gainesville, thus marking the beginning of the football program at the University of Florida.[84] The following year, the college student body selected crimson as the official school color. The administration in 1905 took crimson and combined it with the recognizable purple of the championship football teams to achieve the color garnet. When football returned to the school about 42 years later the now famous garnet and gold colors were first used on an FSU uniform in a 14-6 loss to Stetson University on October 18, 1947.
Flying High Circus, established 1947
Flying High Circus, established 1947
[edit] Marching Chiefs
FSU is also the home of the Marching Chiefs, the FSU marching band. The Marching Chiefs are the band behind the famous "War Chant." The War Chant is derived from "Massacre" which was first played during the 1960s. Chiefs still play "Massacre" during pregame to honor the start of the War Chant.[85]
It is traditional for students to be dunked in the Westcott fountain on special occasions
It is traditional for students to be dunked in the Westcott fountain on special occasions
[edit] School songs
Alma Mater - High Over Towering Pines: High over towering pines our voices swell, Praising those Gothic spires, we love so well. Here sons and daughters stand, faithful and true, Hailing our alma mater, F.S.U.
Hymn to the Garnet and Gold: Here's a hymn to the Garnet and the Gold, ringing to the sky. Here's a song for the men and women bold. Sing with heads held high. Striving ere to seek to know, Fight for victory. Alma Mater, this our song to you echoes "F.S.U."
FSU Fight Song You've got to fight, fight, fight, for FSU, You've got to scalp 'em Seminoles, You've got to win, win, win, win this game, And roll on down to make those goals, For FSU is on the warpath now, and at the battle's end she's great. So fight, fight, fight, fight for victory, the Seminoles of Florida State! F-L-O-R-I-D-A S-T-A-T-E! Florida State, Florida State, Florida State, Woooo!
The fight song was written by Florida State music professor, Thomas Wright, who grants rights to the song in exchange for two season tickets every year.[86][87]
The 1950 Florida State University Homecoming half-time show included a dedication ceremony naming the stadium in honor of university President Doak Campbell. There was also a special performance by the band, christening it the Marching Chiefs and premiering the Florida State University Fight Song.
Fifty years later, the FSU Fight Song was used by Mission Control to awaken alumnus and current professor Norm Thagard one morning in 1983 while he was aboard the Challenger spacecraft.
[edit] Campus Expansion
Florida State University has seen considerable expansion and construction since T. K. Wetherell came into office in 2003. Numerous renovations as well as new constructions have been completed or are in the process of completion. These projects include student athletic fields, dormitories, new classroom space as well as research space. Currently the campus is undergoing a revival and beautification of the campuses main spaces.
Abele Chemistry and Research Building
Abele Chemistry and Research Building
King Life Sciences Teaching & Research Center
King Life Sciences Teaching & Research Center
These include:
* Abele Chemistry and Research Building
* College of Education Building Expansion
* College of Engineering Advanced Material Research Building
* College of Law Expansion
* College of Medicine (Thrasher Building)
* Department of Psychology Center
* DeGraff Residence Hall
* Huge Classroom Building
* King Life Sciences Teaching & Research Center
* Marine Science Research and Training Center
* Mike Long Track Performance Complex
* RecSports Intramural Sports Complex
* Student Success Center
* Wildwood Residence Hall
Bolded items are complete or near completion
[edit] Notable alumni
Dodd Hall
Dodd Hall
Main article: List of Florida State University alumni
Florida State University has a large and diverse alumni network, ranging from internationally acclaimed performance artists to U.S. Senators to the chancellors of prestigious universities. FSU has more than 250,000 alumni worldwide represented by 68 or more official clubs, 11 Constituent Groups, and many informal groups and associations.[88]
Florida State University seeks to protect its history through the FSU Heritage Protocol whose mission is "to locate, identify, record, assist in the preservation of, and promote knowledge about the heritage of Florida State University and its predecessor institutions. Students, faculty, staff, administrators, alumni, and friends have expressed this heritage through published, unpublished, audio, and visual materials, memorabilia and ceremonial objects."[89]
[edit] Notable athletic alumni
Main article: List of Florida State University athletic alumni
As a major competitor in college athletics, Florida State University has many notable student athletes, coaches and staff members. Many of the most notable members are listed in FSU's Hall of Fame and represent all major collegiate sports.[90] Currently, 75 FSU alumni compete in professional basketball, football, baseball and golf.[91]
[edit] Notes and references
1. ^ a b [1] State Library and Archives of Florida - The Florida Memory Project Timeline (see 1851) Retrieved on 4-28-2007
2. ^ [2] Foundation's FY 2006 annual reports Retrieved on September 24-2007.
3. ^ a b [3] 2006 NACUBO Endowment Study, © 2007 National Association of College and University Business Officers Retrieved on 5-11-2007.
4. ^ a b c [4] Florida State University Office of Institutional Research, Enrollment and Faculty - FSU student/faculty statistics for fall 2006 Retrieved on 5-11-2007.
5. ^ [5] Florida State University Office of Institutional Research, Percentage Full-Time Employees by EEO Category Fall 1995 through Fall 2006 Retrieved on 5-12-2007.
6. ^ [6] FSU, FAMU continue to see grad-student enrollment go up Retrieved on 11-06-2007.
7. ^ Florida State University Summary of University Properties. Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
8. ^ a b c FSU 2006-2007 General Bulletin Undergraduate Edition. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
9. ^ The Carnegie Foundation: Classifications. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
10. ^ Florida State University - Colleges, Schools, Departments, Institutes, and Administrative Units, Centers, Facilities, Labs & Institutes. Retrieved on 2007-05-12.
11. ^ FSU Pathways of Excellence Ph.D. Programs. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
12. ^ Aaron DeSlatte and Angeline Taylor. "Crist signs differential tuition bill", FloridaToday.com, June 27, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-06-30.
13. ^ "2006 College Tuition and Fees Survey", USA Today, August 30 2006. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
14. ^ "Many of what we now call the flagship campuses were established in the extraordinary period of university building that took place in the United States in the roughly three decades from the mid-1850s to the mid-1880s. Many came into being after the Morrill Act of 1863 provided the federal grants of land to the states to establish public universities. Some states built two institutions, a land-grant college focused on agriculture and the "mechanical arts" as well as general education, and another more directed at classical education and the other professions...These institutions formed the core of the public systems of higher education in their respective states."
Robert M. Berdahl, Chancellor of UC Berkeley (October 5, 1998). Convocation Address. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
15. ^ Senate Bill 1710.
16. ^ "In January of 1851, four schools advertised for students in the Tallahassee paper The Floridian: the Leon Female Academy, the Quincy Male and Female Academy, the Atheneum Classical Institute at Bradford, and Tallahassee High School. From territorial days until 1857 when the West Florida Seminary was finally located in Tallahassee, a series of private schools, tutors, and governesses educated the local white children. Schools for boys came and went until 1850, when the City Council established a Free School for the education of boys. The Free School evolved into the Florida Institute whose lands and buildings were deeded to the State as part of the arrangement for the establishment of the West Florida Seminary at Tallahassee. The education of girls during the same period was more stable due to the existence of the Leon Female Academy which was founded in 1844 and absorbed by the Seminary in 1858, when instruction was opened to girls as well as boys."
Florida State University Special Collections - 1851 Exhibit Introduction:. Retrieved on 2007-07-05.
17. ^ Florida State University Sesquicentennial Celebration. Retrieved on 2007-05-08.
18. ^ a b Florida State University - College Highlights and Selected National Rankings. Retrieved on 2007-05-01.
19. ^ "Section 1. The proceeds of all lands that have been or may hereafter be granted by the United States for the use of Schools, and a Seminary or Seminaries, of learning, shall be and remain a perpetual fund, the interest of which, together with all monies derived from any other source applicable to the same object, shall be inviolably appropriated to the use of Schools and Seminaries of learning respectively, and to no other purpose. Section 2. The General Assembly shall take such measures as may be necessary to preserve from waste or damage all land so granted and appropriated to the purposes of Education. "
State Library and Archives of Florida - The Florida Memory Project, Florida Constitution of 1838, Article X - Education. Retrieved on 2007-05-28.
20. ^ a b c d e History of Florida State University. Office of the Dean of the Faculties (September 5, 2001). Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
21. ^ "Original building of the all male Florida Institute, one predecessor of the West Florida Seminary. Archives metadata: The male academy. Built in 1854, by the city, as an inducement for the legislature to name Tallahassee as the site of the Seminary West of the Suwanee. Operated as the Florida Institute until it became West Florida Seminary in 1857."
State Library and Archives of Florida - Florida Photographic Collection. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
22. ^ Ben Pickard, ed. (1991). Historic Gainesville, A Tour Guide to the Past. Historic Gainesville, Inc.. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
23. ^ "Tallahassee Female Academy circa 187-. Archives metadata: A female academy. West Florida Seminary building on Park Avenue between Duval and Bronough Streets, Tallahassee, Florida" State Library and Archives of Florida - Florida Photographic Collection. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
24. ^ Florida State University Libraries - John L. DeMilly Papers 1877-1879, Historical Note. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
25. ^ "No. 3 was the seminary. Built in 1854. In use 1857, when classes began, until 1891 when it was remolded to College Hall."
State Library and Archives of Florida - Florida Photographic Collection, Map showing location of the West Florida Seminary published 1885.. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
26. ^ "Building given to the seminary at its inception (1857) for classes. Destroyed in 1891 to make way for College Hall."
State Library and Archives of Florida - Florida Photographic Collection, West Florida Seminary circa 1884.. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
27. ^ "Constructed in 1891. Replaced by Westcott in 1909."
State Library and Archives of Florida - Florida Photographic Collection, College Hall at the West Florida Seminary circa 1898.. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
28. ^ [7] State Library and Archives of Florida - The Florida Memory Project Timeline (see 1865) Retrieved on 4-29-2007
29. ^ "West Florida Seminary cadets taking a break."
State Library and Archives of Florida - Florida Photographic Collection, West Florida Seminary Cadets, published circa 187-.. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
30. ^ In 1883 the institution, now long officially known as the West Florida Seminary, was organized by the Board of Education as The Literary College of the University of Florida. Owing to lack of means for the support of this more ambitious project, and also owing to the fact that soon thereafter schools for technical training were established, this association soon dissolved. It remains to be remarked, however, that the legislative act passed in 1885, bestowing upon the institution the title of the University of Florida, has never been repealed. The more pretentious name is not assumed by the college owing to the fact that it does not wish to misrepresent its resources and purposes."
ibid
31. ^ State Library and Archives of Florida - Florida Photographic Collection, Westcott Building at the Florida State College for Women, published 193-.. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
32. ^ Amy McDonald. (2004). Florida State University Libraries Special Collections Department, Inventory of the Florida State College for Women Surveys and Reports (MSS2003003), Biographical/Historical Notes.. Florida State University Libraries. Retrieved on 2007-04-30.
33. ^ Erin VanClay (September 2005). Florida State University Libraries Special Collections Department, Inventory of the Florida State College for Women/Florida State University Phi Beta Kappa Alpha of Florida Chapter. (MSS2005-014) Biographical/Historical Notes.. Florida State University Libraries. Retrieved on 2007-04-30.
34. ^ "The first 507 students went to register for the TBUF program, 1946-47. They were enrolled at Florida State College for Women in 1946. TBUF was created to serve men returning from World War II because there was no room at the state men's college, the University of Florida. They were the first men on campus since 1905."
State Library and Archives of Florida - Florida Photographic Collection, Tallahassee Branch of the University of Florida at the Florida State College for Women circa 1946. Retrieved on 2007-04-30.
35. ^ "She graduated in the transitional class of 1947, when FSCW became the coeducational Florida State University. She was a member of the only class for which both institutional names appear on the diploma."
Personal history of Mary Lou Norwood, FSCW/FSU Alumna, (transitional) Class of 1947 (FSU webpage). Retrieved on 2007-04-30.
36. ^ Florida State University, News Archive, Events'. Retrieved on 2007-04-30.
37. ^ "One of the more notorious fads of the 1970s began on the campus of Florida State. Streaking, which swept the nation in the 1970s, was started in 1974 when about 200 FSU students decided to run naked across the campus one mild March evening."Streaking an FSU First. Florida State Times (April/May 1997). Retrieved on 2007-06-29.
38. ^ "January 15, 1974 was a slow day at the Florida Flambeau. So the editor persuaded four male FSU students to streak naked across Woodward Avenue and the tennis courts, on into a waiting getaway car. Within weeks, the streaking fad had spread across campuses nationwide. To uphold their record as Number 1, FSU students staged mass nude evening rallies in front of the library. But the fad quickly passed, and everyone forgot that it had started in Tallahassee."
Streaking. Tallahassee Naturally, Inc.. Retrieved on 2007-06-29.
39. ^ Florida State University, Center for Participant Education. Retrieved on 2007-04-30.
40. ^ a b c Florida State University - Pathways of Excellence. Florida State University. Retrieved on 2007-05-27.
41. ^ Florida State University - Panama City, Republic of Panama campus. Retrieved on 2007-05-28.
42. ^ a b Welcome to International Programs. Retrieved on 2007-05-28.
43. ^ Title XLVIII, 1004.45(2)(a) 2006 Florida Statutes. Retrieved on 2007-05-02.
44. ^ Peter Paul Rubens, Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries. ArtCyclopedia.com. Retrieved on 2007-05-02.
45. ^ John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Retrieved on 2007-05-02.
46. ^ Museum of Fine Arts at Florida State University. Retrieved on 2007-05-26.
47. ^ FSU 2006-2007 General Bulletin Undergraduate Edition - Limited Access Programs. Retrieved on 2007-04-30.
48. ^ "Young Scholars Get Ahead at FSU Camp", Tallahassee Democrat, June 20, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-06-20.
49. ^ Young Scholars Program @ FSU'. Retrieved on 2007-05-26.
50. ^ Americas Best Colleges. US News. Retrieved on 2007-09-22.
51. ^ Academic Ranking of World Universities 2006. Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2006). Retrieved on 2007-04-15.
52. ^ World University Rankings. The Times Higher Educational Supplement (2006). Retrieved on 2007-04-15.
53. ^ Webometrics Ranking of World Universities. Webometrics (2007). Retrieved on 2007-10-22.
54. ^ The Top American Research Universities: 2006 Annual Report (2006). Retrieved on 2007-04-15.
55. ^ Best Values in Public Colleges. Kiplinger.com. Retrieved on 2007-05-01.
56. ^ "2006 College Tuition and Fees Survey", USA Today, August 30 2006. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
57. ^ [8] Florida State University - FSU.com/EverythingFSU.com, FSU a national beacon for Hispanic students By Molly Smith. Published Feb. 07, 2007 Retrieved on 5-01-2007.
58. ^ a b FSU Trustees Procedures. Retrieved on 2007-07-06.
59. ^ Headcount Summaries by School/College, Fall Semesters. Retrieved on 2007-07-06. Florida State University - Office of Institutional Research
60. ^ About the College. Florida State University College of Medicine. Retrieved on 2007-05-11.
61. ^ State Colleges Getting Choosier. Retrieved on 2007-10-21.
62. ^ Report Shocks Florida Schools. Retrieved on 2007-01-07.
63. ^ Efforts to improve graduation rates showing progress.
64. ^ Tuition increase won't solve all problems. Retrieved on 2007-11-16.
65. ^ Florida State University - Office of Greek Life. Retrieved on 2007-05-05.
66. ^ Florida State University, Campus Recreation - Sport Clubs. Retrieved on 2007-05-08.
67. ^ Corporate media on campus? Florida State University paper sold to Gannett Co. - The Brown Daily Herald, 19 September 2006. Retrieved on 2007-07-06.
68. ^ Florida State University - Television Stations WFSU and WFSG. Retrieved on 2007-05-28.
69. ^ Florida State University - Radio Stations WFSU-FM, WFSQ-FM and WFSW-FM. Retrieved on 2007-05-28.
70. ^ Florida State University - Radio Station WVFS-FM. Retrieved on 2007-05-28.
71. ^ Faculty Honors and Awards. Retrieved on 2007-07-01.
72. ^ Jeff Bauer (1991). A History of Supercomputing at Florida State University. Retrieved on 2007-04-30.
73. ^ Hypolithic Algae at Johnson Canyon-Death Valley Sample Collection of March 5-7, 1997. Retrieved on 2007-07-10.
74. ^ E. Imre Friedmann, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor and Director, Polar Desert Research Center. Retrieved on 2007-07-10.
75. ^ a b National High Magnetic Field Laboratory - Media Center Fact Sheets - Records. Retrieved on 2007-05-23.
76. ^ JoAnne Graff. Retrieved on 2007-09-24.
77. ^ a b ACC Rivalries. Retrieved on 2007-07-24.
78. ^ a b Profile: Bobby Bowden. Seminoles.com. Retrieved on 2007-06-30.
79. ^ 3peatTrojans's SportingBlog: The Great College Football Debates: Coaches pt.3. SportingNews.com. Retrieved on 2007-07-06.
80. ^ Florida State University, Student Profiles - Garrett Johnson. Retrieved on 2007-05-08.
81. ^ Track & Field: FSU Wins Back-to-Back National Titles. Seminoles.com. Retrieved on 2007-06-09.
82. ^ State Library and Archives of Florida - Florida Photographic Collection, West Florida Seminary Football Team at College Hall, published 1899. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
83. ^ The Argo of the Seminary West of the Suwanee, Tallahassee, FL (circa 1900), page 28 (image 33). Retrieved on 2007-05-08.
84. ^ Florida State University Sesquicentennial Celebration 1851-2001, History 1851-1905 Student Life. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
85. ^ Florida State University, University Relations, FSU Seminole Traditions - War Chant. Retrieved on 2007-05-11.
86. ^ Florida State University - Fight Song (lyrics by Doug Alley, music by Thomas Wright)'. Retrieved on 2007-05-25.
87. ^ The History of the War Chant. Retrieved on 2007-05-28.
88. ^ Florida State University, Alumni Association - Seminole Clubs. Retrieved on 2007-07-01.
89. ^ Florida State University, Alumni Association - Heritage Protocol Mission Statement. Retrieved on 2007-07-01.
90. ^ Florida State University, Seminoles.Com website for FSU Athletics - FSU Hall of Fame. Retrieved on 2007-07-01.
91. ^ Noles in the Pros. Seminoles.Com. Retrieved on 2007-07-01.
[edit] Further reading
[edit] Books
* Adams, Alfred Hugh (1962). A History of Public Higher Education in Florida, 1821‑1961. Florida State University.
* Bush, George G. (1898). History of Education in Florida. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Bureau of Education, Circular of Information 1888, # 7.
* Campbell, Doak Sheridan (1964). A University in Transition: Florida State College for Women and Florida State University, 1941‑1957. Florida State University.
* Dodd, William George (1948). "Early Education in Tallahassee and the West Florida Seminary, Now Florida State University". Florida Historical Quarterly (XXVII): 1‑27.
* Dodd, William George (1952). History of West Florida Seminary. Florida State University. B0007E7WRS.
* Dodd, William George (1952). West Florida Seminary, 1857‑1901; Florida State College, 1901‑1905. Tallahassee: none.
* Dodd, William George (1958-1959). Florida State College for Women, Notes on the Formative Years (1905‑1920)‑‑With a Postscript: The Twenties; and Epilogue: The Forties 1940‑1944. Tallahassee: none.
* McGrotha, Bill (1987). Seminoles! The First Forty Years. Tallahassee Democrat.
* Sellers, Robin Jeanne (1995). Femina perfecta: The genesis of Florida State University. FSU Foundation. ISBN 0964837412.
[edit] External links
* Florida State University (main website)
* FSU Athletics
Howard University
Howard University is a university located in Washington, D.C., USA. A historically black university, Howard was established in 1867 by congressional order and named for Oliver O. Howard. Howard University is the number one producer of African American Ph.D.s in the United States.[1]
Contents
[hide]
* 1 Background
* 2 History
* 3 Schools and colleges
* 4 Research Centers
o 4.1 Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
* 5 Presidents of Howard University
* 6 Alumni
* 7 Greek organizations originated at Howard University
* 8 See also
* 9 Footnotes
* 10 External links
[edit] Background
Howard was established by a charter in 1867, and much of its early funding came from endowment, private benefaction, and tuition. An annual congressional appropriation administered by the Secretary of the Interior funded the school.[2] Today, it is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund[3] and is partially funded by the US Government, which gives approximately $235 million annually.[4] The college was named after General Oliver O. Howard who was commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau and the college's third president.[5] From its outset, it was nonsectarian and open to people of both sexes and all races.[6] Howard has graduate schools of law, medicine, dentistry and divinity, in addition to the undergraduate program. The current enrollment (as of 2003) is approximately 11,000, including 7,000 undergraduates. The university's football homecoming activities serve as one of the premier annual events in Washington.[7]
[edit] History
Founders Library is an iconic building on the Howard University campus that has been declared a National Historic Landmark.
Founders Library is an iconic building on the Howard University campus that has been declared a National Historic Landmark.
Howard University has played an important role in American history and the Civil Rights Movement on a number of occasions. Alain Locke, Chair of the Department of Philosophy and first African American Rhodes Scholar, authored The New Negro which helped to usher in the Harlem Renaissance.[8] Ralph Bunche, the first Nobel Peace Prize winner of African descent, served as chair of the Department of Political Science.[9] Stokely Carmichael, also known as Kwame Toure, a student in the Department of Philosophy and the Howard University School of Divinity coined the term Black Power and worked in Lowndes County, Alabama as a voting rights activist.[10] Historian Rayford Logan served as chair of the Department of History.[11] E. Franklin Frazier served as chair of the Department of Sociology.[12] Sterling Allen Brown served as chair of the Department of English.
After being refused admission to the then-white-only University of Maryland School of Law, a young Lincoln University graduate Thurgood Marshall enrolled at Howard University School of Law instead. There he studied under Charles Hamilton Houston, a Harvard Law School graduate and leading civil rights lawyer who at the time was the dean of Howard's law school. Houston took Marshall under his wing, and the two forged a friendship that would last for the remainder of Houston's life. Howard University was the site where Marshall and his team of legal scholars from around the nation prepared to argue the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case.[13]
Main Hall and Miner Hall in 1868. Miner Hall is located to the right.
Main Hall and Miner Hall in 1868. Miner Hall is located to the right.
Howard was the site of the organization of the first black Greek letter organization among black colleges when it approved the charter of Alpha Phi Alpha's second chapter in 1907. Howard was also the site for the founding of the Alpha (first) chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta, Omega Psi Phi, Phi Beta Sigma and Zeta Phi Beta.[14]
Major improvements, additions, and changes occurred at the school in the aftermath of World War I. New buildings were built under the direction of architect Albert Cassell. [15] In 1918, all the secondary schools of the university were abolished and the whole plan of undergraduate work changed. The four-year college course was divided into two periods of two years each, the Junior College, and the Senior Schools. The semester system was abolished in 1919 and the quarter system substituted. Twenty-three new members were added to the faculty between the reorganization of 1918 and 1923. A dining hall building with class rooms for the department of home economics was built in 1921 at a cost of $301,000. A greenhouse was erected in 1919. Howard Hall was renovated and made a dormitory for girls; many improvements were made on campus; J. Stanley Durkee, Howard's last white president, was appointed in 1918. [16]
In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered a speech to the graduating class at Howard, where he outlined his plans for civil rights legislation.[17]
In 1989, Howard gained national attention when students rose up in protest against the appointment of then-Republican National Committee Chairman Lee Atwater as a new member of the university's Board of Trustees. Student activists disrupted Howard's 122nd anniversary celebrations, and eventually occupied the university's Administration building.[18] Within days, both Atwater and Howard's President, James E. Cheek, resigned. The Board of Trustees accepted many of the students' other demands, including promised improvements to campus housing and academic credit for community work .[19]
In April 2007 the head of the faculty senate called for the ouster of Howard University President H. Patrick Swygert, saying that the school is in a state of crisis and it was time to end “an intolerable condition of incompetence and dysfunction at the highest level.” This came on the heels of several criticisms of Howard University and its management. A National Science Foundation audit condemned Howard’s management of several federal research grants.[20] The Division of Nursing faced losing its accreditation and being placed on probation for a second time because of the program's deficiencies. In Division of Allied Health Science, Physical Therapy and Physician Assistant program are also on probational accreditation status.[21] In addition, the residency programs at Howard University Hospital received a much-publicized unfavorable assessment by the Accrediting Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).[22] Swygert announced in May 2007 he will retire from Howard in June 2008. [23]
In 2007, media mogul Oprah Winfrey was conferred the honorary doctorate of Humanities at the university's 139th commencement. She gave a highly publicized oration before a crowd of over 27,000 people, one of the most heavily attended in academic history. [24]
[edit] Schools and colleges
Howard Bison logo
Howard Bison logo
* College of Arts and Sciences [25]
* School of Business [26]
* John H. Johnson School of Communications [27]
* College of Dentistry [28]
* School of Divinity [29]
* School of Education [30]
* College of Engineering, Architecture & Computer Sciences [31]
* Howard University Graduate School [32]
* School of Law [33]
* College of Medicine [34]
* College of Pharmacy, Nursing & Allied Health Sciences [35]
* School of Social Work [36]
* (MS)2 Middle School of Mathematics and Science [37]
[edit] Research Centers
[edit] Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
Main article: Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MSRC) is recognized as one of the world's largest and most comprehensive repositories for the documentation of the history and culture of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and other parts of the world. As one of the university's major research facilities, the MSRC collects, preserves, and makes available for research a wide range of resources chronicling the Black experience.[38]
[edit] Presidents of Howard University
• Charles B. Boynton 1867
• Byron Sunderland 1867 – 1869
• Oliver Otis Howard 1869 – 1874
• Edward P. Smith 1875 – 1876
• William W. Patton 1877 – 1889
• Jeremiah E. Rankin 1890 – 1903
• John Gordon 1903 – 1906
• Wilbur P. Thirkield 1906 – 1912
• Stephen M. Newman 1912 – 1918
• J. Stanley Durkee 1918 – 1926
• Mordecai Wyatt Johnson 1926 – 1960
• James M. Nabrit 1960 – 1969
• James E. Cheek 1969 – 1989
• Franklyn G. Jenifer 1990 – 1994
• H. Patrick Swygert 1995 – present
[edit] Alumni
Howard University has conferred over 99,318 degrees and certificates in its 140-year history. Noteworthy alumni include Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, actor Ossie Davis, comical midget Danny Cohn, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall(School of Law), Claude Brown, Stokeley Carmichael, Roberta Flack, Shaka Hislop, Phylicia Rashad, Richard Smallwood. and many other educators, politicians, United States ambassadors, writers, prominent international figures, and corporate executives. The 1990s R&B group Shai was formed on the campus of Howard University. Their hit song "If I Ever Fall In Love" was recorded there as well. The Hollywood Reporter reported that when Howard alumna Debbie Allen became the producer-director of the popular television series A Different World, she "drew from her college experiences in an effort to accurately reflect in the show the social and political life on black campuses."
Main article: List of Howard University people
[edit] Greek organizations originated at Howard University
A number of Greek organizations were founded at Howard University, including:
* Alpha Kappa Alpha Founded - 1908
* Omega Psi Phi Founded - 1911
* Delta Sigma Theta Founded - 1913
* Phi Beta Sigma Founded - 1914
* Zeta Phi Beta Founded - 1920
Howard University is also host to other Greek letter fraternal organizations, including Gamma Iota Sigma, Kappa Alpha Psi, Iota Phi Theta, Phi Mu Alpha, Sigma Alpha Iota, Delta Sigma Pi, Phi Sigma Pi, Alpha Phi Omega, Gamma Sigma Sigma, Kappa Kappa Psi, and Tau Beta Sigma.
[edit] See also
* List of historically black colleges of the United States
* Howard University alumni
[edit] Footnotes
1. ^ NACUBO Endowment Survey - Public NEWS Tables (2006). NACUBO. Retrieved on 2007-09-24.
[edit] External links
* Howard University
* University Hospital
* The Hilltop (student newspaper)
* Howard University Press
* Howard Athletics
* Howard Homecoming
* PBS
* Black Excel
* Oliver Howard Memorial at Gettysburg
Contents
[hide]
* 1 Background
* 2 History
* 3 Schools and colleges
* 4 Research Centers
o 4.1 Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
* 5 Presidents of Howard University
* 6 Alumni
* 7 Greek organizations originated at Howard University
* 8 See also
* 9 Footnotes
* 10 External links
[edit] Background
Howard was established by a charter in 1867, and much of its early funding came from endowment, private benefaction, and tuition. An annual congressional appropriation administered by the Secretary of the Interior funded the school.[2] Today, it is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund[3] and is partially funded by the US Government, which gives approximately $235 million annually.[4] The college was named after General Oliver O. Howard who was commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau and the college's third president.[5] From its outset, it was nonsectarian and open to people of both sexes and all races.[6] Howard has graduate schools of law, medicine, dentistry and divinity, in addition to the undergraduate program. The current enrollment (as of 2003) is approximately 11,000, including 7,000 undergraduates. The university's football homecoming activities serve as one of the premier annual events in Washington.[7]
[edit] History
Founders Library is an iconic building on the Howard University campus that has been declared a National Historic Landmark.
Founders Library is an iconic building on the Howard University campus that has been declared a National Historic Landmark.
Howard University has played an important role in American history and the Civil Rights Movement on a number of occasions. Alain Locke, Chair of the Department of Philosophy and first African American Rhodes Scholar, authored The New Negro which helped to usher in the Harlem Renaissance.[8] Ralph Bunche, the first Nobel Peace Prize winner of African descent, served as chair of the Department of Political Science.[9] Stokely Carmichael, also known as Kwame Toure, a student in the Department of Philosophy and the Howard University School of Divinity coined the term Black Power and worked in Lowndes County, Alabama as a voting rights activist.[10] Historian Rayford Logan served as chair of the Department of History.[11] E. Franklin Frazier served as chair of the Department of Sociology.[12] Sterling Allen Brown served as chair of the Department of English.
After being refused admission to the then-white-only University of Maryland School of Law, a young Lincoln University graduate Thurgood Marshall enrolled at Howard University School of Law instead. There he studied under Charles Hamilton Houston, a Harvard Law School graduate and leading civil rights lawyer who at the time was the dean of Howard's law school. Houston took Marshall under his wing, and the two forged a friendship that would last for the remainder of Houston's life. Howard University was the site where Marshall and his team of legal scholars from around the nation prepared to argue the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case.[13]
Main Hall and Miner Hall in 1868. Miner Hall is located to the right.
Main Hall and Miner Hall in 1868. Miner Hall is located to the right.
Howard was the site of the organization of the first black Greek letter organization among black colleges when it approved the charter of Alpha Phi Alpha's second chapter in 1907. Howard was also the site for the founding of the Alpha (first) chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta, Omega Psi Phi, Phi Beta Sigma and Zeta Phi Beta.[14]
Major improvements, additions, and changes occurred at the school in the aftermath of World War I. New buildings were built under the direction of architect Albert Cassell. [15] In 1918, all the secondary schools of the university were abolished and the whole plan of undergraduate work changed. The four-year college course was divided into two periods of two years each, the Junior College, and the Senior Schools. The semester system was abolished in 1919 and the quarter system substituted. Twenty-three new members were added to the faculty between the reorganization of 1918 and 1923. A dining hall building with class rooms for the department of home economics was built in 1921 at a cost of $301,000. A greenhouse was erected in 1919. Howard Hall was renovated and made a dormitory for girls; many improvements were made on campus; J. Stanley Durkee, Howard's last white president, was appointed in 1918. [16]
In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered a speech to the graduating class at Howard, where he outlined his plans for civil rights legislation.[17]
In 1989, Howard gained national attention when students rose up in protest against the appointment of then-Republican National Committee Chairman Lee Atwater as a new member of the university's Board of Trustees. Student activists disrupted Howard's 122nd anniversary celebrations, and eventually occupied the university's Administration building.[18] Within days, both Atwater and Howard's President, James E. Cheek, resigned. The Board of Trustees accepted many of the students' other demands, including promised improvements to campus housing and academic credit for community work .[19]
In April 2007 the head of the faculty senate called for the ouster of Howard University President H. Patrick Swygert, saying that the school is in a state of crisis and it was time to end “an intolerable condition of incompetence and dysfunction at the highest level.” This came on the heels of several criticisms of Howard University and its management. A National Science Foundation audit condemned Howard’s management of several federal research grants.[20] The Division of Nursing faced losing its accreditation and being placed on probation for a second time because of the program's deficiencies. In Division of Allied Health Science, Physical Therapy and Physician Assistant program are also on probational accreditation status.[21] In addition, the residency programs at Howard University Hospital received a much-publicized unfavorable assessment by the Accrediting Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).[22] Swygert announced in May 2007 he will retire from Howard in June 2008. [23]
In 2007, media mogul Oprah Winfrey was conferred the honorary doctorate of Humanities at the university's 139th commencement. She gave a highly publicized oration before a crowd of over 27,000 people, one of the most heavily attended in academic history. [24]
[edit] Schools and colleges
Howard Bison logo
Howard Bison logo
* College of Arts and Sciences [25]
* School of Business [26]
* John H. Johnson School of Communications [27]
* College of Dentistry [28]
* School of Divinity [29]
* School of Education [30]
* College of Engineering, Architecture & Computer Sciences [31]
* Howard University Graduate School [32]
* School of Law [33]
* College of Medicine [34]
* College of Pharmacy, Nursing & Allied Health Sciences [35]
* School of Social Work [36]
* (MS)2 Middle School of Mathematics and Science [37]
[edit] Research Centers
[edit] Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
Main article: Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MSRC) is recognized as one of the world's largest and most comprehensive repositories for the documentation of the history and culture of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and other parts of the world. As one of the university's major research facilities, the MSRC collects, preserves, and makes available for research a wide range of resources chronicling the Black experience.[38]
[edit] Presidents of Howard University
• Charles B. Boynton 1867
• Byron Sunderland 1867 – 1869
• Oliver Otis Howard 1869 – 1874
• Edward P. Smith 1875 – 1876
• William W. Patton 1877 – 1889
• Jeremiah E. Rankin 1890 – 1903
• John Gordon 1903 – 1906
• Wilbur P. Thirkield 1906 – 1912
• Stephen M. Newman 1912 – 1918
• J. Stanley Durkee 1918 – 1926
• Mordecai Wyatt Johnson 1926 – 1960
• James M. Nabrit 1960 – 1969
• James E. Cheek 1969 – 1989
• Franklyn G. Jenifer 1990 – 1994
• H. Patrick Swygert 1995 – present
[edit] Alumni
Howard University has conferred over 99,318 degrees and certificates in its 140-year history. Noteworthy alumni include Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, actor Ossie Davis, comical midget Danny Cohn, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall(School of Law), Claude Brown, Stokeley Carmichael, Roberta Flack, Shaka Hislop, Phylicia Rashad, Richard Smallwood. and many other educators, politicians, United States ambassadors, writers, prominent international figures, and corporate executives. The 1990s R&B group Shai was formed on the campus of Howard University. Their hit song "If I Ever Fall In Love" was recorded there as well. The Hollywood Reporter reported that when Howard alumna Debbie Allen became the producer-director of the popular television series A Different World, she "drew from her college experiences in an effort to accurately reflect in the show the social and political life on black campuses."
Main article: List of Howard University people
[edit] Greek organizations originated at Howard University
A number of Greek organizations were founded at Howard University, including:
* Alpha Kappa Alpha Founded - 1908
* Omega Psi Phi Founded - 1911
* Delta Sigma Theta Founded - 1913
* Phi Beta Sigma Founded - 1914
* Zeta Phi Beta Founded - 1920
Howard University is also host to other Greek letter fraternal organizations, including Gamma Iota Sigma, Kappa Alpha Psi, Iota Phi Theta, Phi Mu Alpha, Sigma Alpha Iota, Delta Sigma Pi, Phi Sigma Pi, Alpha Phi Omega, Gamma Sigma Sigma, Kappa Kappa Psi, and Tau Beta Sigma.
[edit] See also
* List of historically black colleges of the United States
* Howard University alumni
[edit] Footnotes
1. ^ NACUBO Endowment Survey - Public NEWS Tables (2006). NACUBO. Retrieved on 2007-09-24.
[edit] External links
* Howard University
* University Hospital
* The Hilltop (student newspaper)
* Howard University Press
* Howard Athletics
* Howard Homecoming
* PBS
* Black Excel
* Oliver Howard Memorial at Gettysburg
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Georgetown University School of Medicine (GUSOM) is Georgetown University's medical school, and part of the Georgetown University Medical Center. It is located on the University's main campus in Washington, DC. Opened in 1851, Georgetown's School of Medicine provides a comprehensive approach to medical education, always with an eye to the Jesuit ideal of cura personalis, or "care of the whole person." Committed to training physicians in all dimensions of the delivery of humane patient care, the School of Medicine works in association with the 407-bed Georgetown University Hospital and nine affiliated federal and community hospitals in the Washington metropolitan area.
For the 2007 entering class, 10,643 applicants applied and 1,228 were interviewed for the 190 available slots. The average science GPA of incoming students is 3.6, with a mean MCAT score of 10.4.[1] Tuition is $39,957 for the 2007-2008 first year class. In 2006-07, 85% of Georgetown medical students received financial aid.[2] The School of Medicine allows students to pursue joint degrees with the MD program, such as: MD/PhD, MD/MBA, MD/MS (only the MS in Biohazardous Threat Agents and the MS in Complementary/Alternative Medicine are allowed for this pairing).
Among many other contributions to medicine, the technology for the newly developed HPV vaccine was generated primarily by a team of Georgetown University Medical Center researchers in the early 1990s.[3]
Contents
[hide]
* 1 History
* 2 Curriculum
o 2.1 Programs
* 3 Campus
* 4 Notable alumni
* 5 External links
* 6 References
[edit] History
Georgetown University Hospital
Georgetown University Hospital
The founding of Georgetown's School of Medicine was the result of the progressive spirit of the University directors and professional rivalries of District of Columbia physicians. Some of the local doctors had monopolized the clinical facilities of the Washington Infirmary. Four of the excluded practitioners decided to improve their position by setting up a medical school and dispensary of their own. They asked Father James Ryder, the president of Georgetown College, to regard the new enterprise as the medical department of the Jesuit institution. The request was granted, and in May, 1851, the fledgling School opened its first classes.
In 1898 the Georgetown University Hospital was established. It is currently a 609-licensed bed hospital. In 1930, classes moved to the main campus. In July 2000, Georgetown University and MedStar Health, a not for profit organization of seven Baltimore and Washington hospitals, entered into a clinical partnership to provide management of clinical care and clinical education at Georgetown University Hospital.[4] In 2004, the School of Medicine opened the Integrated Learning Center (ILC), which supports the School of Medicine's emphasis on a patient-centered, competence-based curriculum and provides the latest methods of clinical teaching and evaluation.
[edit] Curriculum
The Georgetown University School of Medicine Faculty includes 1,470 faculty members (746 full-time) from 8 basic science and 16 clinical departments, and one center and awards MD, MD/PhD, MD/MBA, and MD/MS degrees.
The School of Medicine also allows students to pursue joint degrees with the MD program, such as: MD/PhD, MD/MBA, MD/MS (only the MS in Biohazardous Threat Agents and the MS in Complementary/Alternative Medicine are allowed for this pairing), as well as MD with a Research Track where MD students spend time in the laboratory and develop a research thesis in their specialty.
Georgetown's four-year curriculum combines departmentally based basic science courses and laboratory work, prescribed clinical clerkships, multidisciplinary courses and conferences, and electives that provide the student a well-rounded, comprehensive curriculum. The intent is to prepare students for not only the clinical and biomedical aspects of patient care, but also the social, ethical, and community-based challenges for effectively provide that care.
Courses in the first two years focus on the development of fundamental knowledge concerning the body's normal and altered structure and functions. Small-group teaching and problem-based presentations have replaced a portion of the large class lectures. Exposure to patient assessment and care along with community service and advocacy opportunities begin in the first year, and continue throughout all four years.
In the third year, clinical clerkships stress the skills required to acquire and interpret patient-based data, while the fourth year further develops skills in patient management, including rotations in ambulatory care settings. Twenty-four weeks of electives are available during this final year.
Faculty/student review of the curriculum is an important continuing endeavor of the School of Medicine. Curriculum revisions occur each year in response to student and faculty evaluations. Additional task forces are looking at how best to develop longitudinal themes throughout the curriculum that will better prepare students for the challenges facing health care, and effective and equitable health care delivery in the 21st century.
[edit] Programs
* Anesthesia
* Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
* Biomathematics & Statistics
* Cell Biology
* Emergency Medicine
* Family Medicine
* Graduate Biomedical Education
* Medicine
* Microbiology & Immunology
* Neurology
* Neurosurgery
* Obstetrics & Gynecology
* Oncology
* Ophthalmology
* Orthopaedic Surgery
* Otolaryngology
* Pathology
* Pediatrics
* Pharmacology
* Physiology & Biophysics
* Psychiatry
* Radiation Medicine
* Radiology
* Surgery
* Urology
[edit] Campus
Sunset over the Medical & Dental School Building
Sunset over the Medical & Dental School Building
Georgetown University Medical Center comprises the School of Medicine, School of Nursing & Health Studies (founded in 1903), Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and its Biomedical Graduate Research Organization. In 2005, GUMC brought in $138 million in sponsored research funds, most of which was federally funded. Clinical care is provided at Georgetown University Hospital and satellite locations through a partnership with MedStar Health.
[edit] Notable alumni
Name Degree and year received Accomplishments
Mark R. Dybul C 1985, M 1992 United States Global AIDS Coordinator, U.S. Department of State, 2006-present
Susan Hockfield Med Ph.D - 1979 Neuroscientist; President, MIT, 2004–present; Provost, Yale University, 2003-2004; Dean, Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 1998-2000;
Kevin C. Kiley M 1976 Lt. Gen. Kiley is the 41st Surgeon General of the Army and Commander, U.S. Army Medical Command, 2004-2007
Antonia Novello Hospital Fellow 1975 Surgeon General of the United States, 1990-1993
Thomas Parran, Jr. M 1915 Surgeon General of the United States, 1936-1948
John J. Ring C 1949, M 1953 former President, American Medical Association
Solomon Snyder C 1959, M 1962 Neuroscientist
Andrew von Eschenbach M 1967 Director, Food and Drug Administration, 2006-present; Director, National Cancer Institute, 2002-2005
[edit] External links
* Georgetown University Hospital
* Georgetown University School of Medicine
* Georgetown University Medical Center
* MedStar Health
[edit] References
1. ^ http://som.georgetown.edu/admissions/index.html
2. ^ http://gumc.georgetown.edu/communications/facts/ataglance0607.html
3. ^ Georgetown University Medical Center Research Leads To First Cancer Vaccine
4. ^ http://www.georgetownuniversityhospital.org/body.cfm?id=1307
For the 2007 entering class, 10,643 applicants applied and 1,228 were interviewed for the 190 available slots. The average science GPA of incoming students is 3.6, with a mean MCAT score of 10.4.[1] Tuition is $39,957 for the 2007-2008 first year class. In 2006-07, 85% of Georgetown medical students received financial aid.[2] The School of Medicine allows students to pursue joint degrees with the MD program, such as: MD/PhD, MD/MBA, MD/MS (only the MS in Biohazardous Threat Agents and the MS in Complementary/Alternative Medicine are allowed for this pairing).
Among many other contributions to medicine, the technology for the newly developed HPV vaccine was generated primarily by a team of Georgetown University Medical Center researchers in the early 1990s.[3]
Contents
[hide]
* 1 History
* 2 Curriculum
o 2.1 Programs
* 3 Campus
* 4 Notable alumni
* 5 External links
* 6 References
[edit] History
Georgetown University Hospital
Georgetown University Hospital
The founding of Georgetown's School of Medicine was the result of the progressive spirit of the University directors and professional rivalries of District of Columbia physicians. Some of the local doctors had monopolized the clinical facilities of the Washington Infirmary. Four of the excluded practitioners decided to improve their position by setting up a medical school and dispensary of their own. They asked Father James Ryder, the president of Georgetown College, to regard the new enterprise as the medical department of the Jesuit institution. The request was granted, and in May, 1851, the fledgling School opened its first classes.
In 1898 the Georgetown University Hospital was established. It is currently a 609-licensed bed hospital. In 1930, classes moved to the main campus. In July 2000, Georgetown University and MedStar Health, a not for profit organization of seven Baltimore and Washington hospitals, entered into a clinical partnership to provide management of clinical care and clinical education at Georgetown University Hospital.[4] In 2004, the School of Medicine opened the Integrated Learning Center (ILC), which supports the School of Medicine's emphasis on a patient-centered, competence-based curriculum and provides the latest methods of clinical teaching and evaluation.
[edit] Curriculum
The Georgetown University School of Medicine Faculty includes 1,470 faculty members (746 full-time) from 8 basic science and 16 clinical departments, and one center and awards MD, MD/PhD, MD/MBA, and MD/MS degrees.
The School of Medicine also allows students to pursue joint degrees with the MD program, such as: MD/PhD, MD/MBA, MD/MS (only the MS in Biohazardous Threat Agents and the MS in Complementary/Alternative Medicine are allowed for this pairing), as well as MD with a Research Track where MD students spend time in the laboratory and develop a research thesis in their specialty.
Georgetown's four-year curriculum combines departmentally based basic science courses and laboratory work, prescribed clinical clerkships, multidisciplinary courses and conferences, and electives that provide the student a well-rounded, comprehensive curriculum. The intent is to prepare students for not only the clinical and biomedical aspects of patient care, but also the social, ethical, and community-based challenges for effectively provide that care.
Courses in the first two years focus on the development of fundamental knowledge concerning the body's normal and altered structure and functions. Small-group teaching and problem-based presentations have replaced a portion of the large class lectures. Exposure to patient assessment and care along with community service and advocacy opportunities begin in the first year, and continue throughout all four years.
In the third year, clinical clerkships stress the skills required to acquire and interpret patient-based data, while the fourth year further develops skills in patient management, including rotations in ambulatory care settings. Twenty-four weeks of electives are available during this final year.
Faculty/student review of the curriculum is an important continuing endeavor of the School of Medicine. Curriculum revisions occur each year in response to student and faculty evaluations. Additional task forces are looking at how best to develop longitudinal themes throughout the curriculum that will better prepare students for the challenges facing health care, and effective and equitable health care delivery in the 21st century.
[edit] Programs
* Anesthesia
* Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
* Biomathematics & Statistics
* Cell Biology
* Emergency Medicine
* Family Medicine
* Graduate Biomedical Education
* Medicine
* Microbiology & Immunology
* Neurology
* Neurosurgery
* Obstetrics & Gynecology
* Oncology
* Ophthalmology
* Orthopaedic Surgery
* Otolaryngology
* Pathology
* Pediatrics
* Pharmacology
* Physiology & Biophysics
* Psychiatry
* Radiation Medicine
* Radiology
* Surgery
* Urology
[edit] Campus
Sunset over the Medical & Dental School Building
Sunset over the Medical & Dental School Building
Georgetown University Medical Center comprises the School of Medicine, School of Nursing & Health Studies (founded in 1903), Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and its Biomedical Graduate Research Organization. In 2005, GUMC brought in $138 million in sponsored research funds, most of which was federally funded. Clinical care is provided at Georgetown University Hospital and satellite locations through a partnership with MedStar Health.
[edit] Notable alumni
Name Degree and year received Accomplishments
Mark R. Dybul C 1985, M 1992 United States Global AIDS Coordinator, U.S. Department of State, 2006-present
Susan Hockfield Med Ph.D - 1979 Neuroscientist; President, MIT, 2004–present; Provost, Yale University, 2003-2004; Dean, Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 1998-2000;
Kevin C. Kiley M 1976 Lt. Gen. Kiley is the 41st Surgeon General of the Army and Commander, U.S. Army Medical Command, 2004-2007
Antonia Novello Hospital Fellow 1975 Surgeon General of the United States, 1990-1993
Thomas Parran, Jr. M 1915 Surgeon General of the United States, 1936-1948
John J. Ring C 1949, M 1953 former President, American Medical Association
Solomon Snyder C 1959, M 1962 Neuroscientist
Andrew von Eschenbach M 1967 Director, Food and Drug Administration, 2006-present; Director, National Cancer Institute, 2002-2005
[edit] External links
* Georgetown University Hospital
* Georgetown University School of Medicine
* Georgetown University Medical Center
* MedStar Health
[edit] References
1. ^ http://som.georgetown.edu/admissions/index.html
2. ^ http://gumc.georgetown.edu/communications/facts/ataglance0607.html
3. ^ Georgetown University Medical Center Research Leads To First Cancer Vaccine
4. ^ http://www.georgetownuniversityhospital.org/body.cfm?id=1307
The George Washington University
The George Washington University
Motto Deus Nobis Fiducia
(In God Our Trust)
Established February 9, 1821
Type Private
Endowment US $1.019 billion[1]
President Steven Knapp
Faculty 2,062
Undergraduates 10,813
Postgraduates 13,718
Location Flag of Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., USA
Campus Urban - Foggy Bottom; Suburban - Mount Vernon; Rural - Ashburn
Colors Buff and Blue
Nickname GW, GWU, GeeDub
Mascot Colonials
Website www.gwu.edu
The George Washington University (GW) is a private, coeducational university located in Washington, D.C., United States. The school was chartered on February 9, 1821 as The Columbian College in the District of Columbia by an Act of Congress and since that time has developed into a nonsectarian research institution. Located four blocks from the White House, GW is known for its undergraduate liberal arts education as well as its graduate and doctoral programs in social sciences, international affairs, medicine, education, public health, and law.
Contents
[hide]
* 1 History
o 1.1 Founding and early history
o 1.2 Expansion
* 2 Campuses
o 2.1 Foggy Bottom
o 2.2 Mount Vernon
o 2.3 Ashburn and other centers
* 3 Organization
o 3.1 University
o 3.2 Schools and colleges
* 4 Academics
o 4.1 Admission
o 4.2 Tuition
o 4.3 Research
* 5 Student life
o 5.1 Student organizations and government
+ 5.1.1 Colonial inauguration
o 5.2 Greek life
* 6 Athletics and spirit programs
o 6.1 Athletics
+ 6.1.1 Basketball
o 6.2 Spirit programs
* 7 Notable alumni, faculty, and degrees
o 7.1 Notable alumni
o 7.2 Notable faculty
o 7.3 Notable honorary degrees
* 8 Notes
* 9 External links
[edit] History
[edit] Founding and early history
The first American president George Washington had long argued for the creation of a university in the District of Columbia. In his will, he bequeathed fifty shares of the Potomac Company to support such an institution. He wrote, "I give and bequeath in perpetuity the fifty shares which I hold in the Potomac Company (under the aforesaid Acts of the Legislature of Virginia) towards the endowment of a University to be established within the limits of the District of Columbia, under the auspices of the General Government, if that Government should incline to extend a fostering hand towards it."[2] The shares turned out to not be worth very much, but Washington's idea for a university continued. Aware of Washington's wishes, Baptist missionaries and leader minister Luther Rice raised funds to purchase a site for a college to educate citizens in Washington, D.C. A large building was constructed on College Hill, which is now known as Meridian Hill, and on February 9, 1821, President James Monroe approved the congressional charter creating the non-denominational Columbian College in the District of Columbia. The first commencement exercises in 1824 were considered an important event for new Washington, D.C.. They were attended by President Monroe, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, Marquis de Lafayette, and other dignitaries. During the Civil War, most students left to join the Confederacy and the college's buildings were used as a hospital and barracks. Walt Whitman was among many of the volunteers to work on the campus. After the Civil War in 1873, the Columbian College became the Columbian University and the university moved to its present location. In 1904, the Columbian University became The George Washington University in an agreement with the George Washington Memorial Association.[3]
The George Washington University, like much of Washington, D.C., traces many of its origins back to the Freemasons. The Bible that the presidents of the university use to swear an oath on upon inauguration is the Bible of Freemason George Washington. Freemasonry symbols have blatently been located all throughout campus including the foundation stones of many of the university buildings. The Freemasons feel a special bond in helping the school throughout its history financially. [4]
[edit] Expansion
The majority of the present infrastructure and financial stability at GW is due to the tenures of Presidents Cloyd Heck Marvin, Lloyd Hartman Elliott, and Stephen Joel Trachtenberg. In the 1930s, the university was the center for theoretical physics. In one of the most important moments in the 20th century, Niels Bohr announced that Otto Hahn had successfully split the atom on January 26, 1939 at the Fifth Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics in the Hall of Government. [5] During the Vietnam War era, Thurston Hall, an undergraduate dormitory housing 875 students was (according to campus folklore) a staging ground for Student Anti-War Demonstrations (at 1900 F Street NW, the building is 3 blocks from the White House). In 1996, the university purchased the Mount Vernon College for Women in the city's Foxhall neighborhood that became the school's coeducational Mount Vernon Campus. The campus was first utilized in 1997 for women only, but became co-educational in a matter of years. The Mount Vernon campus is now totally integrated into the GW community, serving as a complement to the Foggy Bottom campus. In December 2006, the university named Johns Hopkins University provost Steven Knapp its next president. He began his presidency on August 1, 2007. [6]
[edit] Campuses
[edit] Foggy Bottom
The crossroads of the Foggy Bottom campus, Kogan Plaza.
The crossroads of the Foggy Bottom campus, Kogan Plaza.
The location of the Foggy Bottom (right) and Mount Vernon (left) campuses in Washington, DC
The location of the Foggy Bottom (right) and Mount Vernon (left) campuses in Washington, DC
Most of the university's undergraduate and graduate studies are conducted on its 43-acre, downtown Foggy Bottom campus, which is situated just a few blocks from the White House and the National Mall. Barring a few outlying buildings, the boundaries of campus are delineated by Pennsylvania Avenue, 19th Street, E Street, and Virginia Avenue. The University owns much of the property in Foggy Bottom and leases it to various tenants, including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Neighbors of this campus include the White House, State Department, Kennedy Center, Watergate, Organization of American States, Institute of Peace, and the embassies of Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Foggy Bottom campus is integrated into Washington, D.C. and because of this it has less of a traditional campus atmosphere than those of other universities. The university has a significant presence in the area. Signs indicating the relative location of various university buildings can be found on almost every street corner. The student union (known as the Marvin Center), several residence halls, the Media and Public Affairs building, and other major academic buildings are located within a three-block radius of the University Yard (the original quadrangle on campus).
The nearby area surrounding GW's main library, Gelman Library, forms the hub of the campus. The seven-story library building, which contains over two million volumes, is constructed in the Brutalist architectural style of the 1970s. It features a concrete façade punctuated by windows that are divided by projecting vertical slabs. For most of the year, parts of the library are open 24 hours day, seven days per week for use by students, faculty and staff. The library's upper level is home to the National Security Archive, a research institution that publishes declassified U.S. government files concerning selected topics of American foreign policy. For example, in June of 2007, the organization made the Central Intelligence Agency's so-called "family jewels," which detail twenty-five years of misdeeds, available to the public. [7]
Adjacent to the library is Lisner Auditorium and a large open area known as Kogan Plaza. Close to the plaza and located near Monroe Hall and Hall of Government is the Monroe Court, a landscaped area with a large fountain. The Foggy Bottom Metro Station is located at the intersection of 23rd and I Streets NW, due south of Washington Circle. The University hospital, where many politicians in the city often seek medical treatment,[citation needed] is located next to the Metro station entrance. [8] In late 2007, construction on a large commercial development (known currently as "Square 54") is expected to begin on the currently-vacant lot previously occupied by the old GW Hospital. It is the second-largest undeveloped lot in the District of Columbia. [9]
[edit] Mount Vernon
In 1999, the university acquired the 23-acre Mount Vernon College for Women campus and renamed it "The George Washington University at Mount Vernon College". [10]
Nicknamed "The Vern", students at this campus are the neighbors of the German Embassy in Washington, D.C. in the Foxhall District. The campus is served by a 24-hour shuttle service known as the "Vern Express". Despite the fact that its dorms are fully co-educational, the campus' legacy as a former women's college has been retained with the Elizabeth Somers Women's Leadership Program, a residential-academic program for first-year female undergraduate students. The Mount Vernon campus also hosts the university's outdoor varsity sports.
[edit] Ashburn and other centers
The George Washington University also operates a postgraduate-geared campus in Ashburn, Virginia (near Dulles International Airport) and several other satellite education centers including the Alexandria Graduate Education Center in Alexandria, the Graduate Education Center in Arlington, and the Hampton Roads Center in Newport News. The Ashburn campus hosts a National Transportation Safety Board crash-safety facility. [11]
[edit] Organization
[edit] University
A bust of George Washington on the Foggy Bottom campus.
A bust of George Washington on the Foggy Bottom campus.
The George Washington University is governed by a Board of Trustees and the President who are in charge of managing the institution as a whole and providing a vision for the future. [12] The current Chairman of the Board is W. Russell Ramsey. Ramsey is a business entrepreneur who is known as the co-founder of Freidman, Billings, Ramsey Group, a top investment bank in the United States. He is currently the chairman, CEO, and CIO of Ramsey Asset Management.[13] The current President is Steven Knapp who was the provost at Johns Hopkins University before being chosen by the Board of Trustees in 2007. Knapp is the twentieth man to serve as the head of the university.[6]
[edit] Schools and colleges
GW is organized into nine schools and colleges each with a different dean and organization.
The Columbian College of Arts and Sciences (CCAS) is the oldest and largest college in the university. It was founded in 1921; at the beginning of the university's history, there was no distinction between this college and the university. The School of Media and Public Affairs (SMPA) and the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration (SPPPA) belong to this college, although they are run separately. The Columbian College was among the first American institutions to grant a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in 1888.[14] The Columbian College is notable for its academic diversity.[15]
The George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) was founded in 1821 due to the need for doctors in the District of Columbia.[16] In 1981, the Medical Center became the center of the national spotlight when President Ronald Reagan was rushed to the emergency room after an attempted assassination. The emergency room area was later renamed the Ronald Reagan Institute of Energy Medicine, and other politicians, such as Dick Cheney, come to GW for routine and emergency procedures.[17] An associate school in the university is the George Washington School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS).[18]
The The George Washington University Law School was established in 1826 and is the oldest law school in the District of Columbia. [19]Supreme Court Justices like David J. Brewer and John Marshall Harlan were among those who served on its faculty. Due to its proximity to the Supreme Court, the Law School is frequently visited by Supreme Court Justices and Law Clerks.[citation needed] Chief Justice John Roberts presided over its moot court in 2007.[20]
The George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development (GSEHD) was founded in 1909 and has always been one of the top Graduate Schools of Education in the United States.[21].
The School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) was founded on October 1, 1884 as the Corcoran Scientific School of Columbian University. The school separated from the Columbian College in 1962 and was one of the first to accept women for degree candidacy in engineering and has awarded the most engineering doctoral degrees to women in the country.[22] The bazooka was invented at the SEAS in 1942.[23]
The Elliott School of International Affairs (ESIA) was originally founded in 1898 as the School of Comparative Jurisprudence and Diplomacy. Under President Lloyd Elliott, the school completely separated from the Columbian College. The school lies down the street from the Department of State and because of this there are many opportunities for students in American Diplomacy.[citation needed] On September 3, 2005, alumnus Colin Powell opened a new complex for this school at 1957 E Street NW in front of the Department of Agriculture.[24]
The School of Business (GWSB) was established with a $1 million gift by the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite for the Southern Jurisdiction in 1928.[25] With its proximity in Washington, D.C. to world-leading institutions like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the School of Business has provided its graduates with important contacts for the future.[citation needed] On February 6, 2006, the Chairman and CEO of FedEx Frederick Smith opened a new complex for the school called Duques Hall.[26]
During the Trachtenberg Presidency, the George Washington University has also become a leader in terms of providing professional education. Some schools founded during his era were the College of Professional Studies,[27] and the Graduate School of Political Management.[28]
[edit] Academics
[edit] Admission
Medical school students in class (1958)
Medical school students in class (1958)
The George Washington University is just outside the top 50 universities in the United States according to the Princeton Review.[citation needed] 10,761 undergraduate students attended the university as of the 2006-2007 school year. 12,634 graduate students enrolled for the Fall 2005 academic semester. In 2001, there were 1,508 full-time and 2,725 part-time members of the faculty.[29].
Students at GW participate in a wide variety of educational opportunities inside and outside of the classroom.[citation needed] 9,700 full-time undergraduates are studying in 87 majors with 1,500 in business, 500 in engineering, 2,000 in international affairs, 700 in communications and media, 800 in sciences and math, 2,900 in social sciences, and 1,300 in arts, languages, and humanities. Nearly 900 students participate in GW's Study Abroad Programs each semester in 50 countries.[30] Additionally, about 125 entering students each fall join the University Honors Program community of 500 students.
The George Washington University has been ranked by The Princeton Review as in Top 10 for the following categories:[31].
* Most Politically Active
* Dorms Like Palaces
* Great College Towns
* Best in the Northeast
* College With a Conscience
[edit] Tuition
The George Washington University is one of the more expensive undergraduate institutions in the United States.[32] Tuition is guaranteed to remain at the freshman rate for up to ten continuous (full time) semesters of attendance at the university. Tuition for the 2007-2008 year is $39,210 with a housing/board estimated cost of $11,900.[33]. That tuition rate only applies to the incoming Class of 2011 and those who remain at the university after 10 full time semesters. However, GW also gives the most need based financial aid in the country.[34]
[edit] Research
For a private institution of its size, the George Washington University is very devoted to research.[citation needed] There are major research institutions that many students utilize like the Library of Congress, the National Institutes of Health, the Carnegie Institute, the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, and the National Geographic Society. Many think tanks nearby provide students with every opportunity to decipher and participate in research projects with professors and advisors.[35]
[edit] Student life
GWU Colonials logo
GWU Colonials logo
Due to its location, students at the George Washington University get to take advantage of Washington, D.C.[citation needed] This includes all of the museums, embassies, and cultural events that are world-renowned and occur throughout the year. There are over four hundred student organizations at the University, including organizations of common interest, political activism, ethnic organizations, and Greek organizations.[citation needed] GW has an extensive[citation needed] Division I program that includes men's baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, gymnastics, women's lacrosse, rowing, soccer, women's softball, squash, swimming & diving, tennis, women's volleyball, and water polo.[36] Colonials athletics teams compete in the Atlantic 10 Conference. While only a Division II program, the Men's and Women's Rugby Teams both compete in the Potomac Rugby Union and have had much recent success. [37].
[edit] Student organizations and government
All student organizations are run through the Student Association (SA). The SA is fashioned after the federal government with an executive, legislative, and judicial branch.[38] Some SA presidents have been successful after college, such as former SA president Edward "Skip" Gnehm, who was the Ambassador to Kuwait during the Gulf War and received the Presidential Distinguished Service Award and two Presidential Meritorious Service Awards.
There are many student groups on campus. During an event for the GW College Democrats in 2004, Howard Dean formally endorsed John Kerry for President on campus at a GW College Democrats-sponsored event.[39] The GW College Republicans has been visited by politicians like John Ashcroft and President George W. Bush.[40] The International Affairs Society (IAS) visits embassies and goes trick-or-treating on Halloween at different embassies.[citation needed] GW's Student Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC) is one of the most active chapters in the country [citation needed] due to the high amount of AIDS cases in Washington, D.C.[41]. The GW Chapter of STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition, or GW STAND, was formed in 2003 and works with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on information about genocide in Darfur.[42] The Global Language Group, or Global Languages, is a non-profit organization that offers over 150 free classes in 50 languages.
Academic groups are very popular on campus.[citation needed] There are many local chapters in academic fields. The local chapter of the Society of Physics Students was at one time under the auspices of world-renowned scientists like George Gamow, Ralph Asher Alpher, Mario Schoenberg and Edward Teller, who have all taught at the university. The The Enosinian Society, founded in 1822, is one of George Washington University's oldest and most storied[citation needed] student organizations. Invited speakers included prominent U.S., including Daniel Webster. [43]
There are two student run news sources on campus: the twice-weekly newspaper The GW Hatchet, founded in 1904, and The Daily Colonial, an online daily founded in 2004. There is also an online only student-run radio station, WRGW, that is in its 79th year.
GW has a Navy ROTC program on campus.
[edit] Colonial inauguration
Every year, freshman are introduced to the George Washington University with an elaborate[citation needed] orientation led by a group of students called the Colonial Cabinet. During three days, students learn how the university functions and what is expected of them. They are entertained by groups like Capitol Steps and live on campus in dormitories.[citation needed] It is one of the largest orientation programs for universities in the Northeastern United States.[citation needed] There has been significant controversy over how the university introduces students and how much the orientation costs.[44].
Students of the George Washington University have their Commencement on the National Mall or the Ellipse every year. Some past honorees at Commencement have been George H.W. Bush, Barbara Bush, and Wolf Blitzer.
Students of the George Washington University have their Commencement on the National Mall or the Ellipse every year. Some past honorees at Commencement have been George H.W. Bush, Barbara Bush, and Wolf Blitzer.
[edit] Greek life
GW has a large[citation needed] Greek community and Greek history on campus.
There are thirteen recognized men's social fraternity chapters on campus, including Alpha Epsilon Pi, Beta Theta Pi, Kappa Sigma, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Sigma Kappa, Pi Kappa Alpha, Pi Kappa Phi, Sigma Nu, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Sigma Chi, Tau Kappa Epsilon, and Theta Delta Chi. There are currently two colonies: Kappa Alpha Order and Zeta Beta Tau.There are nine Panhellenic sororities on campus, including Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Alpha Phi, Delta Gamma, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, Sigma Delta Tau, Sigma Kappa, and Phi Sigma Sigma. Three National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) sororities exist on campus: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta, and Zeta Phi Beta.
Other Greek-life exist on campus in the form of multicultural, professional, community-serviced based and honor groups: Alpha Kappa Psi, Order of Omega, Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, Iota Nu Delta, Lambda Upsilon Lambda , Pi Delta Psi, Sigma Psi Zeta, Delta Phi Epsilon, Theta Tau, Phi Sigma Pi, Delta Sigma Pi, Alpha Phi Omega, and Epsilon Sigma Alpha.
[edit] Athletics and spirit programs
[edit] Athletics
The George Washington University is a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference and most of its teams play at the NCAA Division I level. All indoor sports play at the Smith Athletic Centero on the Foggy Bottom campus. The outdoor events are held at the Mount Vernon campus Athletic Complex.
The university's colors are buff and blue (buff being a color similar to tan, but often represented as gold or yellow). The colors were taken from George Washington's uniform in the Revolutionary War.
The teams have achieved great successes in recent years including a first round victory in the Men's NCAA Division I Soccer Tournament in 2004.
[edit] Basketball
The colors of GWU, buff and blue, can be seen on banners on the Foggy Bottom campus.
The colors of GWU, buff and blue, can be seen on banners on the Foggy Bottom campus.
Mike Jarvis coached GW in the 1990s, and led the team to the NCAA Sweet 16 in 1993, where they were beaten by the Fab Five Michigan team. Jarvis also coached current Colonials Head Coach Karl Hobbs in high school. NBA flop Yinka Dare also played at George Washington for two years before being drafted in the first round by the New Jersey Nets.
GW's Basketball team returned to the national stage in 2004 after defeating No. 9 Michigan State and No. 12 Maryland in back to back games to win the 2004 BB&T Classic. That year, the Men's Basketball team went on to win the Atlantic 10 West Title and the Atlantic 10 Tournament Title (earning an automatic bid to the 2005 NCAA Tournament. The team received a #12 seed, losing to #5 seed Georgia Tech in the first round.
The team began the 2005 season ranked 21st in the Associated Press poll, reaching as high as sixth in the polls, and after some tournament success they closed out the year ranked 19th in the nation. They had a record of 26-2 (16-0 in the A-10) going into the 2006 NCAA Tournament. The 2005-2006 season had been the team's best ever,[citation needed] surpassing the start of the 1953-1954 season and receiving an #8 seed in the NCAA Tournament. In the tournament, they came back from a 18-point second-half deficit to defeat #9 seed UNC-Wilmington, but lost to Duke University, the top overall seed, in the Second Round.
While only one Colonial from the 2005-2006 team was drafted in the 2006 NBA Draft, J. R. Pinnock, two other Colonials from that team played in the NBA. Pops Mensah-Bonsu played for the Dallas Mavericks (and is now with Benetton Treviso in Italy) and Mike Hall plays with the Washington Wizards.
The 2006-2007 basketball season was considered by many[attribution needed] to be a rebuilding year for the Colonials after graduating their entire starting front court and losing Pinnock to the NBA. Coach Karl Hobbs and Senior guard Carl Elliott managed to lead the team to a 23-8 record, winning the 2007 Atlantic 10 Tournament in Atlantic City, NJ (once again earning an auto-bid to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship). The Colonials were placed as a #11 seed lost to #6 seed Vanderbilt University in Sacramento, CA 77-44.[45]
Karl Hobbs, a former player and coach under Jim Calhoun at the University of Connecticut is in his sixth year as head coach. Hobbs is a fan favorite,[citation needed] often receiving as much applause during his entrance to games as the athletes.[citation needed] Known for his outward shows of emotion during games that include stomping his foot and slamming his clipboard,[citation needed] Hobbs is considered one of the up-and-coming coaches in the NCAA.[citation needed]
[edit] Spirit programs
The traditional mascot for the Colonials is George, a student wearing a life-size George Washington costume with a large head.[46]. The sports teams are called the Colonials, which was chosen by the student body in 1924. The official student supporters' group of the men's basketball team is called the Colonial Army. It is one of the largest student organizations on campus. The Colonial Army provides its members with gear such as yellow foam tricorner hats, and in the past had preferred seating.
[edit] Notable alumni, faculty, and degrees
Main article: List of George Washington University people
[edit] Notable alumni
J. Edgar Hoover, the longest serving, and arguably most controversial director of the FBI
J. Edgar Hoover, the longest serving, and arguably most controversial director of the FBI
Jacqueline Kennedy, First Lady and widow of President John F. Kennedy
Jacqueline Kennedy, First Lady and widow of President John F. Kennedy
Colonials have been very influential in American politics because of their young start in the nation's capital.[citation needed] The high cost of the university is also a factor. Modern business entrepreneurs like Ansousheh Ansari. Current and past famous senators like J. William Fulbright, Harry Reid, and Mark Warner have also spent time in Foggy Bottom. World leaders and political shakers like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, Allen Dulles, John Foster Dulles, J. Edgar Hoover, Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer, Syngman Rhee, His Majesty King Mohammed VI, Mikhail Saakashvili, and Edward "Skip" Gnehm have also made their mark on the George Washington University culture and character. Other famous alumni who have contributed a great deal to the past, present, and future of the George Washington University are Courtney Cox Arquette, Ralph Asher Alpher, Ina Garten, Dana Bash, L. Ron Hubbard, Arnold J. 'Red' Auerbach, and Theodore N. Lerner.
[edit] Notable faculty
Because of the location in Washington, D.C. of the Foggy Bottom campus,[citation needed] the university also has access to a great deal of resources.[citation needed] These resources bring faculty of all types to study in the locale.[citation needed] Notable faculty include: George Gamow (1934-1954), physicist and cosmologist; Edward Teller (1935-1941), nuclear physicist and father of the hydrogen bomb; Seyyed Hossein Nasr, founder and first president of the Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy; Edward "Skip" Gnehm, former U.S. Ambassador to Jordan, Kuwait and Australia; John Logsdon, member of Columbia Accident Investigation Board, NASA Advisory Council; and Frank Sesno, CNN Special Correspondent.
[edit] Notable honorary degrees
The process of giving honorary degrees has been controversial at the George Washington University with some people believing that it devalues normal degrees and others believing in the opposite idea.[citation needed] The university has traditionally given honorary degrees to people who have made an influence in Washington like: J. Edgar Hoover (Doctor of Law, 1935), John Wesley Snyder (Treasury Secretary, Doctor of Law, 1947), Ulysses S. Grant (Doctor of Law, 1956), John F. Kennedy (Doctor of Law, 1961), Hillary Rodham Clinton (Doctor of Public Service, 1994), Elizabeth Dole (Doctor of Public Service, 1995), William H. Rehnquist (Doctor of Law, 1996), Sandra Day O'Connor (Doctor of Law, 2003), Barbara Bush (Doctor of Public Service, 2006), and George H.W. Bush (Doctor of Public Service, 2006). Peace advocates and leaders of other nations who have influenced the world have also received this honor. These people include: King Mohammad V of Morocco (Doctor of Law, 1957), the Shah of Iran (Doctor of Public Service, 1974), Roy Lichtenstein (Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa, 1996), Yitzhak Rabin (Doctor of Public Service, 1996), Desmond Tutu (Doctor of Public Service, 1999), and Andy Rooney (Doctor of Public Service, 2005).
[edit] Notes
1. ^ "GW's Endowment Breaks One Billion". GW Hatchet. Retrieved on 2007-02-01.
2. ^ "Rediscovering George Washington". Public Broadcasting Service. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
3. ^ "Brief History of GWU". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
4. ^ "Building the University: Freemasonry, SJT, and GW". GWU Hatchet. Retrieved on 2007-11-01.
5. ^ David W. Hafemeister. "Physics and Nuclear Arms Today". Springer (1991).
6. ^ a b "Johns Hopkins Provost To Succeed Trachtenberg". GW Hatchet. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
7. ^ "The CIA's Family Jewels". National Security Archive. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
8. ^ "Democratic Senator Critical After Brain Surgery". Dallas Morning News. Retrieved on 2006-12-14.
9. ^ "DC Commission Approves Square 54 Plans". GW Hatchet. Retrieved on 2007-02-01.
10. ^ "GWU Takes Control of D.C. College". Washington Post. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
11. ^ "Rebuilt TWA Flight 800 Wreckage To Be Used For Training". CNN.com. Retrieved on 2003-10-08.
12. ^ "Guide to GW: The Board of Trustees". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
13. ^ "Board of Trustees Chairman Discusses Goals". GW Hatchet. Retrieved on 2007-10-22.
14. ^ "Columbian College of Arts and Sciences". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
15. ^ "Columbian College of Arts and Sciences". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
16. ^ "About the School". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-11-14.
17. ^ "Vice President Dick Cheney visits GW hospital for 2nd time in a month". GW Hatchet. Retrieved on 2007-11-14.
18. ^ "School of Medicine and Health Sciences". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
19. ^ "A Brief History". George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-11-14.
20. ^ "Law School". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
21. ^ [1]
22. ^ "Engineering Change, One PhD at a Time". George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-11-14.
23. ^ "School of Engineering and Applied Sciences". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
24. ^ "Elliott School of International Affairs". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
25. ^ http://encyclopedia.gwu.edu/gwencyclopedia/index.php/Business,_School_of_-_History
26. ^ "History of the School of Business". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
27. ^ http://www.gwu.edu/~cps/
28. ^ http://www.gwu.edu/~gspm/
29. ^ "The George Washington University Facts, Stats, and Admissions Information". Peterson's. Retrieved on 2007-02-01.
30. ^ " The George Washington University - Admissions". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-02-01.
31. ^ "The George Washington University". The Princeton Review. Retrieved on 2007-02-01.
32. ^ "Most Expensive Colleges in America - AOL Money & Finance". AOL Money & Finance. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
33. ^ "The George Washington University - Financial". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-10-24.
34. ^ "GW Leads in Financial Aid". GW Hatchet. Retrieved on 2007-10-23.
35. ^ "GW Inauguration 2007". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-11-16.
36. ^ "GW Men's Basketball On Display At Open Practice". GW Hatchet. Retrieved on 2007-10-25.
37. ^ "Rugby Squad Scrums in DC". GW Hatchet. Retrieved on 2007-10-25.
38. ^ "About the SA". GW Student Association. Retrieved on 2007-11-14.
39. ^ "High-Profile Dems Rally Around Kerry". Washington Post. Retrieved on 2006-03-26.
40. ^ "Bush's Refrain on Iraq Joined by a Smaller and Smaller Chorus". GW Hatchet. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
41. ^ "AIDS in D.C.". Washington Post. Retrieved on 2006-03-27.
42. ^ "Students And Activists Unite For Darfur". The Daily Colonial. Retrieved on 2007-10-24.
43. ^ "Edward Teller Chronology". The Denver Post. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
44. ^ "The $50,630 Question". The Washington City Paper. Retrieved on 2007-09-22.
45. ^ http://msn.foxsports.com/cbk/recap?gameId=200703150615
46. ^ "GW Spirit Program". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
[edit] External links
* The George Washington University Main Page
* The GW and Foggy Bottom Historical Encyclopedia
* George Washington University Historical Photographs - online images of individuals, localities, objects, buildings, events, and groups associated with the history of the University.
* The George Washington University GWired - the student activity log and bulletin for event announcements
* GW Colonial Athletics
* Maps and aerial photos for [show location on an interactive map] 38°54′03″N 77°02′50″W / 38.900750, -77.047100Coordinates: [show location on an interactive map] 38°54′03″N 77°02′50″W / 38.900750, -77.047100
o Maps from WikiMapia, Google Maps, Live Search Maps, Yahoo! Maps, or MapQuest
o Topographic maps from TopoZone or TerraServer-USA
Motto Deus Nobis Fiducia
(In God Our Trust)
Established February 9, 1821
Type Private
Endowment US $1.019 billion[1]
President Steven Knapp
Faculty 2,062
Undergraduates 10,813
Postgraduates 13,718
Location Flag of Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., USA
Campus Urban - Foggy Bottom; Suburban - Mount Vernon; Rural - Ashburn
Colors Buff and Blue
Nickname GW, GWU, GeeDub
Mascot Colonials
Website www.gwu.edu
The George Washington University (GW) is a private, coeducational university located in Washington, D.C., United States. The school was chartered on February 9, 1821 as The Columbian College in the District of Columbia by an Act of Congress and since that time has developed into a nonsectarian research institution. Located four blocks from the White House, GW is known for its undergraduate liberal arts education as well as its graduate and doctoral programs in social sciences, international affairs, medicine, education, public health, and law.
Contents
[hide]
* 1 History
o 1.1 Founding and early history
o 1.2 Expansion
* 2 Campuses
o 2.1 Foggy Bottom
o 2.2 Mount Vernon
o 2.3 Ashburn and other centers
* 3 Organization
o 3.1 University
o 3.2 Schools and colleges
* 4 Academics
o 4.1 Admission
o 4.2 Tuition
o 4.3 Research
* 5 Student life
o 5.1 Student organizations and government
+ 5.1.1 Colonial inauguration
o 5.2 Greek life
* 6 Athletics and spirit programs
o 6.1 Athletics
+ 6.1.1 Basketball
o 6.2 Spirit programs
* 7 Notable alumni, faculty, and degrees
o 7.1 Notable alumni
o 7.2 Notable faculty
o 7.3 Notable honorary degrees
* 8 Notes
* 9 External links
[edit] History
[edit] Founding and early history
The first American president George Washington had long argued for the creation of a university in the District of Columbia. In his will, he bequeathed fifty shares of the Potomac Company to support such an institution. He wrote, "I give and bequeath in perpetuity the fifty shares which I hold in the Potomac Company (under the aforesaid Acts of the Legislature of Virginia) towards the endowment of a University to be established within the limits of the District of Columbia, under the auspices of the General Government, if that Government should incline to extend a fostering hand towards it."[2] The shares turned out to not be worth very much, but Washington's idea for a university continued. Aware of Washington's wishes, Baptist missionaries and leader minister Luther Rice raised funds to purchase a site for a college to educate citizens in Washington, D.C. A large building was constructed on College Hill, which is now known as Meridian Hill, and on February 9, 1821, President James Monroe approved the congressional charter creating the non-denominational Columbian College in the District of Columbia. The first commencement exercises in 1824 were considered an important event for new Washington, D.C.. They were attended by President Monroe, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, Marquis de Lafayette, and other dignitaries. During the Civil War, most students left to join the Confederacy and the college's buildings were used as a hospital and barracks. Walt Whitman was among many of the volunteers to work on the campus. After the Civil War in 1873, the Columbian College became the Columbian University and the university moved to its present location. In 1904, the Columbian University became The George Washington University in an agreement with the George Washington Memorial Association.[3]
The George Washington University, like much of Washington, D.C., traces many of its origins back to the Freemasons. The Bible that the presidents of the university use to swear an oath on upon inauguration is the Bible of Freemason George Washington. Freemasonry symbols have blatently been located all throughout campus including the foundation stones of many of the university buildings. The Freemasons feel a special bond in helping the school throughout its history financially. [4]
[edit] Expansion
The majority of the present infrastructure and financial stability at GW is due to the tenures of Presidents Cloyd Heck Marvin, Lloyd Hartman Elliott, and Stephen Joel Trachtenberg. In the 1930s, the university was the center for theoretical physics. In one of the most important moments in the 20th century, Niels Bohr announced that Otto Hahn had successfully split the atom on January 26, 1939 at the Fifth Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics in the Hall of Government. [5] During the Vietnam War era, Thurston Hall, an undergraduate dormitory housing 875 students was (according to campus folklore) a staging ground for Student Anti-War Demonstrations (at 1900 F Street NW, the building is 3 blocks from the White House). In 1996, the university purchased the Mount Vernon College for Women in the city's Foxhall neighborhood that became the school's coeducational Mount Vernon Campus. The campus was first utilized in 1997 for women only, but became co-educational in a matter of years. The Mount Vernon campus is now totally integrated into the GW community, serving as a complement to the Foggy Bottom campus. In December 2006, the university named Johns Hopkins University provost Steven Knapp its next president. He began his presidency on August 1, 2007. [6]
[edit] Campuses
[edit] Foggy Bottom
The crossroads of the Foggy Bottom campus, Kogan Plaza.
The crossroads of the Foggy Bottom campus, Kogan Plaza.
The location of the Foggy Bottom (right) and Mount Vernon (left) campuses in Washington, DC
The location of the Foggy Bottom (right) and Mount Vernon (left) campuses in Washington, DC
Most of the university's undergraduate and graduate studies are conducted on its 43-acre, downtown Foggy Bottom campus, which is situated just a few blocks from the White House and the National Mall. Barring a few outlying buildings, the boundaries of campus are delineated by Pennsylvania Avenue, 19th Street, E Street, and Virginia Avenue. The University owns much of the property in Foggy Bottom and leases it to various tenants, including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Neighbors of this campus include the White House, State Department, Kennedy Center, Watergate, Organization of American States, Institute of Peace, and the embassies of Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Foggy Bottom campus is integrated into Washington, D.C. and because of this it has less of a traditional campus atmosphere than those of other universities. The university has a significant presence in the area. Signs indicating the relative location of various university buildings can be found on almost every street corner. The student union (known as the Marvin Center), several residence halls, the Media and Public Affairs building, and other major academic buildings are located within a three-block radius of the University Yard (the original quadrangle on campus).
The nearby area surrounding GW's main library, Gelman Library, forms the hub of the campus. The seven-story library building, which contains over two million volumes, is constructed in the Brutalist architectural style of the 1970s. It features a concrete façade punctuated by windows that are divided by projecting vertical slabs. For most of the year, parts of the library are open 24 hours day, seven days per week for use by students, faculty and staff. The library's upper level is home to the National Security Archive, a research institution that publishes declassified U.S. government files concerning selected topics of American foreign policy. For example, in June of 2007, the organization made the Central Intelligence Agency's so-called "family jewels," which detail twenty-five years of misdeeds, available to the public. [7]
Adjacent to the library is Lisner Auditorium and a large open area known as Kogan Plaza. Close to the plaza and located near Monroe Hall and Hall of Government is the Monroe Court, a landscaped area with a large fountain. The Foggy Bottom Metro Station is located at the intersection of 23rd and I Streets NW, due south of Washington Circle. The University hospital, where many politicians in the city often seek medical treatment,[citation needed] is located next to the Metro station entrance. [8] In late 2007, construction on a large commercial development (known currently as "Square 54") is expected to begin on the currently-vacant lot previously occupied by the old GW Hospital. It is the second-largest undeveloped lot in the District of Columbia. [9]
[edit] Mount Vernon
In 1999, the university acquired the 23-acre Mount Vernon College for Women campus and renamed it "The George Washington University at Mount Vernon College". [10]
Nicknamed "The Vern", students at this campus are the neighbors of the German Embassy in Washington, D.C. in the Foxhall District. The campus is served by a 24-hour shuttle service known as the "Vern Express". Despite the fact that its dorms are fully co-educational, the campus' legacy as a former women's college has been retained with the Elizabeth Somers Women's Leadership Program, a residential-academic program for first-year female undergraduate students. The Mount Vernon campus also hosts the university's outdoor varsity sports.
[edit] Ashburn and other centers
The George Washington University also operates a postgraduate-geared campus in Ashburn, Virginia (near Dulles International Airport) and several other satellite education centers including the Alexandria Graduate Education Center in Alexandria, the Graduate Education Center in Arlington, and the Hampton Roads Center in Newport News. The Ashburn campus hosts a National Transportation Safety Board crash-safety facility. [11]
[edit] Organization
[edit] University
A bust of George Washington on the Foggy Bottom campus.
A bust of George Washington on the Foggy Bottom campus.
The George Washington University is governed by a Board of Trustees and the President who are in charge of managing the institution as a whole and providing a vision for the future. [12] The current Chairman of the Board is W. Russell Ramsey. Ramsey is a business entrepreneur who is known as the co-founder of Freidman, Billings, Ramsey Group, a top investment bank in the United States. He is currently the chairman, CEO, and CIO of Ramsey Asset Management.[13] The current President is Steven Knapp who was the provost at Johns Hopkins University before being chosen by the Board of Trustees in 2007. Knapp is the twentieth man to serve as the head of the university.[6]
[edit] Schools and colleges
GW is organized into nine schools and colleges each with a different dean and organization.
The Columbian College of Arts and Sciences (CCAS) is the oldest and largest college in the university. It was founded in 1921; at the beginning of the university's history, there was no distinction between this college and the university. The School of Media and Public Affairs (SMPA) and the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration (SPPPA) belong to this college, although they are run separately. The Columbian College was among the first American institutions to grant a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in 1888.[14] The Columbian College is notable for its academic diversity.[15]
The George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) was founded in 1821 due to the need for doctors in the District of Columbia.[16] In 1981, the Medical Center became the center of the national spotlight when President Ronald Reagan was rushed to the emergency room after an attempted assassination. The emergency room area was later renamed the Ronald Reagan Institute of Energy Medicine, and other politicians, such as Dick Cheney, come to GW for routine and emergency procedures.[17] An associate school in the university is the George Washington School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS).[18]
The The George Washington University Law School was established in 1826 and is the oldest law school in the District of Columbia. [19]Supreme Court Justices like David J. Brewer and John Marshall Harlan were among those who served on its faculty. Due to its proximity to the Supreme Court, the Law School is frequently visited by Supreme Court Justices and Law Clerks.[citation needed] Chief Justice John Roberts presided over its moot court in 2007.[20]
The George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development (GSEHD) was founded in 1909 and has always been one of the top Graduate Schools of Education in the United States.[21].
The School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) was founded on October 1, 1884 as the Corcoran Scientific School of Columbian University. The school separated from the Columbian College in 1962 and was one of the first to accept women for degree candidacy in engineering and has awarded the most engineering doctoral degrees to women in the country.[22] The bazooka was invented at the SEAS in 1942.[23]
The Elliott School of International Affairs (ESIA) was originally founded in 1898 as the School of Comparative Jurisprudence and Diplomacy. Under President Lloyd Elliott, the school completely separated from the Columbian College. The school lies down the street from the Department of State and because of this there are many opportunities for students in American Diplomacy.[citation needed] On September 3, 2005, alumnus Colin Powell opened a new complex for this school at 1957 E Street NW in front of the Department of Agriculture.[24]
The School of Business (GWSB) was established with a $1 million gift by the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite for the Southern Jurisdiction in 1928.[25] With its proximity in Washington, D.C. to world-leading institutions like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the School of Business has provided its graduates with important contacts for the future.[citation needed] On February 6, 2006, the Chairman and CEO of FedEx Frederick Smith opened a new complex for the school called Duques Hall.[26]
During the Trachtenberg Presidency, the George Washington University has also become a leader in terms of providing professional education. Some schools founded during his era were the College of Professional Studies,[27] and the Graduate School of Political Management.[28]
[edit] Academics
[edit] Admission
Medical school students in class (1958)
Medical school students in class (1958)
The George Washington University is just outside the top 50 universities in the United States according to the Princeton Review.[citation needed] 10,761 undergraduate students attended the university as of the 2006-2007 school year. 12,634 graduate students enrolled for the Fall 2005 academic semester. In 2001, there were 1,508 full-time and 2,725 part-time members of the faculty.[29].
Students at GW participate in a wide variety of educational opportunities inside and outside of the classroom.[citation needed] 9,700 full-time undergraduates are studying in 87 majors with 1,500 in business, 500 in engineering, 2,000 in international affairs, 700 in communications and media, 800 in sciences and math, 2,900 in social sciences, and 1,300 in arts, languages, and humanities. Nearly 900 students participate in GW's Study Abroad Programs each semester in 50 countries.[30] Additionally, about 125 entering students each fall join the University Honors Program community of 500 students.
The George Washington University has been ranked by The Princeton Review as in Top 10 for the following categories:[31].
* Most Politically Active
* Dorms Like Palaces
* Great College Towns
* Best in the Northeast
* College With a Conscience
[edit] Tuition
The George Washington University is one of the more expensive undergraduate institutions in the United States.[32] Tuition is guaranteed to remain at the freshman rate for up to ten continuous (full time) semesters of attendance at the university. Tuition for the 2007-2008 year is $39,210 with a housing/board estimated cost of $11,900.[33]. That tuition rate only applies to the incoming Class of 2011 and those who remain at the university after 10 full time semesters. However, GW also gives the most need based financial aid in the country.[34]
[edit] Research
For a private institution of its size, the George Washington University is very devoted to research.[citation needed] There are major research institutions that many students utilize like the Library of Congress, the National Institutes of Health, the Carnegie Institute, the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, and the National Geographic Society. Many think tanks nearby provide students with every opportunity to decipher and participate in research projects with professors and advisors.[35]
[edit] Student life
GWU Colonials logo
GWU Colonials logo
Due to its location, students at the George Washington University get to take advantage of Washington, D.C.[citation needed] This includes all of the museums, embassies, and cultural events that are world-renowned and occur throughout the year. There are over four hundred student organizations at the University, including organizations of common interest, political activism, ethnic organizations, and Greek organizations.[citation needed] GW has an extensive[citation needed] Division I program that includes men's baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, gymnastics, women's lacrosse, rowing, soccer, women's softball, squash, swimming & diving, tennis, women's volleyball, and water polo.[36] Colonials athletics teams compete in the Atlantic 10 Conference. While only a Division II program, the Men's and Women's Rugby Teams both compete in the Potomac Rugby Union and have had much recent success. [37].
[edit] Student organizations and government
All student organizations are run through the Student Association (SA). The SA is fashioned after the federal government with an executive, legislative, and judicial branch.[38] Some SA presidents have been successful after college, such as former SA president Edward "Skip" Gnehm, who was the Ambassador to Kuwait during the Gulf War and received the Presidential Distinguished Service Award and two Presidential Meritorious Service Awards.
There are many student groups on campus. During an event for the GW College Democrats in 2004, Howard Dean formally endorsed John Kerry for President on campus at a GW College Democrats-sponsored event.[39] The GW College Republicans has been visited by politicians like John Ashcroft and President George W. Bush.[40] The International Affairs Society (IAS) visits embassies and goes trick-or-treating on Halloween at different embassies.[citation needed] GW's Student Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC) is one of the most active chapters in the country [citation needed] due to the high amount of AIDS cases in Washington, D.C.[41]. The GW Chapter of STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition, or GW STAND, was formed in 2003 and works with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on information about genocide in Darfur.[42] The Global Language Group, or Global Languages, is a non-profit organization that offers over 150 free classes in 50 languages.
Academic groups are very popular on campus.[citation needed] There are many local chapters in academic fields. The local chapter of the Society of Physics Students was at one time under the auspices of world-renowned scientists like George Gamow, Ralph Asher Alpher, Mario Schoenberg and Edward Teller, who have all taught at the university. The The Enosinian Society, founded in 1822, is one of George Washington University's oldest and most storied[citation needed] student organizations. Invited speakers included prominent U.S., including Daniel Webster. [43]
There are two student run news sources on campus: the twice-weekly newspaper The GW Hatchet, founded in 1904, and The Daily Colonial, an online daily founded in 2004. There is also an online only student-run radio station, WRGW, that is in its 79th year.
GW has a Navy ROTC program on campus.
[edit] Colonial inauguration
Every year, freshman are introduced to the George Washington University with an elaborate[citation needed] orientation led by a group of students called the Colonial Cabinet. During three days, students learn how the university functions and what is expected of them. They are entertained by groups like Capitol Steps and live on campus in dormitories.[citation needed] It is one of the largest orientation programs for universities in the Northeastern United States.[citation needed] There has been significant controversy over how the university introduces students and how much the orientation costs.[44].
Students of the George Washington University have their Commencement on the National Mall or the Ellipse every year. Some past honorees at Commencement have been George H.W. Bush, Barbara Bush, and Wolf Blitzer.
Students of the George Washington University have their Commencement on the National Mall or the Ellipse every year. Some past honorees at Commencement have been George H.W. Bush, Barbara Bush, and Wolf Blitzer.
[edit] Greek life
GW has a large[citation needed] Greek community and Greek history on campus.
There are thirteen recognized men's social fraternity chapters on campus, including Alpha Epsilon Pi, Beta Theta Pi, Kappa Sigma, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Sigma Kappa, Pi Kappa Alpha, Pi Kappa Phi, Sigma Nu, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Sigma Chi, Tau Kappa Epsilon, and Theta Delta Chi. There are currently two colonies: Kappa Alpha Order and Zeta Beta Tau.There are nine Panhellenic sororities on campus, including Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Alpha Phi, Delta Gamma, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, Sigma Delta Tau, Sigma Kappa, and Phi Sigma Sigma. Three National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) sororities exist on campus: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta, and Zeta Phi Beta.
Other Greek-life exist on campus in the form of multicultural, professional, community-serviced based and honor groups: Alpha Kappa Psi, Order of Omega, Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, Iota Nu Delta, Lambda Upsilon Lambda , Pi Delta Psi, Sigma Psi Zeta, Delta Phi Epsilon, Theta Tau, Phi Sigma Pi, Delta Sigma Pi, Alpha Phi Omega, and Epsilon Sigma Alpha.
[edit] Athletics and spirit programs
[edit] Athletics
The George Washington University is a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference and most of its teams play at the NCAA Division I level. All indoor sports play at the Smith Athletic Centero on the Foggy Bottom campus. The outdoor events are held at the Mount Vernon campus Athletic Complex.
The university's colors are buff and blue (buff being a color similar to tan, but often represented as gold or yellow). The colors were taken from George Washington's uniform in the Revolutionary War.
The teams have achieved great successes in recent years including a first round victory in the Men's NCAA Division I Soccer Tournament in 2004.
[edit] Basketball
The colors of GWU, buff and blue, can be seen on banners on the Foggy Bottom campus.
The colors of GWU, buff and blue, can be seen on banners on the Foggy Bottom campus.
Mike Jarvis coached GW in the 1990s, and led the team to the NCAA Sweet 16 in 1993, where they were beaten by the Fab Five Michigan team. Jarvis also coached current Colonials Head Coach Karl Hobbs in high school. NBA flop Yinka Dare also played at George Washington for two years before being drafted in the first round by the New Jersey Nets.
GW's Basketball team returned to the national stage in 2004 after defeating No. 9 Michigan State and No. 12 Maryland in back to back games to win the 2004 BB&T Classic. That year, the Men's Basketball team went on to win the Atlantic 10 West Title and the Atlantic 10 Tournament Title (earning an automatic bid to the 2005 NCAA Tournament. The team received a #12 seed, losing to #5 seed Georgia Tech in the first round.
The team began the 2005 season ranked 21st in the Associated Press poll, reaching as high as sixth in the polls, and after some tournament success they closed out the year ranked 19th in the nation. They had a record of 26-2 (16-0 in the A-10) going into the 2006 NCAA Tournament. The 2005-2006 season had been the team's best ever,[citation needed] surpassing the start of the 1953-1954 season and receiving an #8 seed in the NCAA Tournament. In the tournament, they came back from a 18-point second-half deficit to defeat #9 seed UNC-Wilmington, but lost to Duke University, the top overall seed, in the Second Round.
While only one Colonial from the 2005-2006 team was drafted in the 2006 NBA Draft, J. R. Pinnock, two other Colonials from that team played in the NBA. Pops Mensah-Bonsu played for the Dallas Mavericks (and is now with Benetton Treviso in Italy) and Mike Hall plays with the Washington Wizards.
The 2006-2007 basketball season was considered by many[attribution needed] to be a rebuilding year for the Colonials after graduating their entire starting front court and losing Pinnock to the NBA. Coach Karl Hobbs and Senior guard Carl Elliott managed to lead the team to a 23-8 record, winning the 2007 Atlantic 10 Tournament in Atlantic City, NJ (once again earning an auto-bid to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship). The Colonials were placed as a #11 seed lost to #6 seed Vanderbilt University in Sacramento, CA 77-44.[45]
Karl Hobbs, a former player and coach under Jim Calhoun at the University of Connecticut is in his sixth year as head coach. Hobbs is a fan favorite,[citation needed] often receiving as much applause during his entrance to games as the athletes.[citation needed] Known for his outward shows of emotion during games that include stomping his foot and slamming his clipboard,[citation needed] Hobbs is considered one of the up-and-coming coaches in the NCAA.[citation needed]
[edit] Spirit programs
The traditional mascot for the Colonials is George, a student wearing a life-size George Washington costume with a large head.[46]. The sports teams are called the Colonials, which was chosen by the student body in 1924. The official student supporters' group of the men's basketball team is called the Colonial Army. It is one of the largest student organizations on campus. The Colonial Army provides its members with gear such as yellow foam tricorner hats, and in the past had preferred seating.
[edit] Notable alumni, faculty, and degrees
Main article: List of George Washington University people
[edit] Notable alumni
J. Edgar Hoover, the longest serving, and arguably most controversial director of the FBI
J. Edgar Hoover, the longest serving, and arguably most controversial director of the FBI
Jacqueline Kennedy, First Lady and widow of President John F. Kennedy
Jacqueline Kennedy, First Lady and widow of President John F. Kennedy
Colonials have been very influential in American politics because of their young start in the nation's capital.[citation needed] The high cost of the university is also a factor. Modern business entrepreneurs like Ansousheh Ansari. Current and past famous senators like J. William Fulbright, Harry Reid, and Mark Warner have also spent time in Foggy Bottom. World leaders and political shakers like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, Allen Dulles, John Foster Dulles, J. Edgar Hoover, Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer, Syngman Rhee, His Majesty King Mohammed VI, Mikhail Saakashvili, and Edward "Skip" Gnehm have also made their mark on the George Washington University culture and character. Other famous alumni who have contributed a great deal to the past, present, and future of the George Washington University are Courtney Cox Arquette, Ralph Asher Alpher, Ina Garten, Dana Bash, L. Ron Hubbard, Arnold J. 'Red' Auerbach, and Theodore N. Lerner.
[edit] Notable faculty
Because of the location in Washington, D.C. of the Foggy Bottom campus,[citation needed] the university also has access to a great deal of resources.[citation needed] These resources bring faculty of all types to study in the locale.[citation needed] Notable faculty include: George Gamow (1934-1954), physicist and cosmologist; Edward Teller (1935-1941), nuclear physicist and father of the hydrogen bomb; Seyyed Hossein Nasr, founder and first president of the Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy; Edward "Skip" Gnehm, former U.S. Ambassador to Jordan, Kuwait and Australia; John Logsdon, member of Columbia Accident Investigation Board, NASA Advisory Council; and Frank Sesno, CNN Special Correspondent.
[edit] Notable honorary degrees
The process of giving honorary degrees has been controversial at the George Washington University with some people believing that it devalues normal degrees and others believing in the opposite idea.[citation needed] The university has traditionally given honorary degrees to people who have made an influence in Washington like: J. Edgar Hoover (Doctor of Law, 1935), John Wesley Snyder (Treasury Secretary, Doctor of Law, 1947), Ulysses S. Grant (Doctor of Law, 1956), John F. Kennedy (Doctor of Law, 1961), Hillary Rodham Clinton (Doctor of Public Service, 1994), Elizabeth Dole (Doctor of Public Service, 1995), William H. Rehnquist (Doctor of Law, 1996), Sandra Day O'Connor (Doctor of Law, 2003), Barbara Bush (Doctor of Public Service, 2006), and George H.W. Bush (Doctor of Public Service, 2006). Peace advocates and leaders of other nations who have influenced the world have also received this honor. These people include: King Mohammad V of Morocco (Doctor of Law, 1957), the Shah of Iran (Doctor of Public Service, 1974), Roy Lichtenstein (Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa, 1996), Yitzhak Rabin (Doctor of Public Service, 1996), Desmond Tutu (Doctor of Public Service, 1999), and Andy Rooney (Doctor of Public Service, 2005).
[edit] Notes
1. ^ "GW's Endowment Breaks One Billion". GW Hatchet. Retrieved on 2007-02-01.
2. ^ "Rediscovering George Washington". Public Broadcasting Service. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
3. ^ "Brief History of GWU". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
4. ^ "Building the University: Freemasonry, SJT, and GW". GWU Hatchet. Retrieved on 2007-11-01.
5. ^ David W. Hafemeister. "Physics and Nuclear Arms Today". Springer (1991).
6. ^ a b "Johns Hopkins Provost To Succeed Trachtenberg". GW Hatchet. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
7. ^ "The CIA's Family Jewels". National Security Archive. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
8. ^ "Democratic Senator Critical After Brain Surgery". Dallas Morning News. Retrieved on 2006-12-14.
9. ^ "DC Commission Approves Square 54 Plans". GW Hatchet. Retrieved on 2007-02-01.
10. ^ "GWU Takes Control of D.C. College". Washington Post. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
11. ^ "Rebuilt TWA Flight 800 Wreckage To Be Used For Training". CNN.com. Retrieved on 2003-10-08.
12. ^ "Guide to GW: The Board of Trustees". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
13. ^ "Board of Trustees Chairman Discusses Goals". GW Hatchet. Retrieved on 2007-10-22.
14. ^ "Columbian College of Arts and Sciences". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
15. ^ "Columbian College of Arts and Sciences". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
16. ^ "About the School". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-11-14.
17. ^ "Vice President Dick Cheney visits GW hospital for 2nd time in a month". GW Hatchet. Retrieved on 2007-11-14.
18. ^ "School of Medicine and Health Sciences". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
19. ^ "A Brief History". George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-11-14.
20. ^ "Law School". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
21. ^ [1]
22. ^ "Engineering Change, One PhD at a Time". George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-11-14.
23. ^ "School of Engineering and Applied Sciences". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
24. ^ "Elliott School of International Affairs". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
25. ^ http://encyclopedia.gwu.edu/gwencyclopedia/index.php/Business,_School_of_-_History
26. ^ "History of the School of Business". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
27. ^ http://www.gwu.edu/~cps/
28. ^ http://www.gwu.edu/~gspm/
29. ^ "The George Washington University Facts, Stats, and Admissions Information". Peterson's. Retrieved on 2007-02-01.
30. ^ " The George Washington University - Admissions". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-02-01.
31. ^ "The George Washington University". The Princeton Review. Retrieved on 2007-02-01.
32. ^ "Most Expensive Colleges in America - AOL Money & Finance". AOL Money & Finance. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
33. ^ "The George Washington University - Financial". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-10-24.
34. ^ "GW Leads in Financial Aid". GW Hatchet. Retrieved on 2007-10-23.
35. ^ "GW Inauguration 2007". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-11-16.
36. ^ "GW Men's Basketball On Display At Open Practice". GW Hatchet. Retrieved on 2007-10-25.
37. ^ "Rugby Squad Scrums in DC". GW Hatchet. Retrieved on 2007-10-25.
38. ^ "About the SA". GW Student Association. Retrieved on 2007-11-14.
39. ^ "High-Profile Dems Rally Around Kerry". Washington Post. Retrieved on 2006-03-26.
40. ^ "Bush's Refrain on Iraq Joined by a Smaller and Smaller Chorus". GW Hatchet. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
41. ^ "AIDS in D.C.". Washington Post. Retrieved on 2006-03-27.
42. ^ "Students And Activists Unite For Darfur". The Daily Colonial. Retrieved on 2007-10-24.
43. ^ "Edward Teller Chronology". The Denver Post. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
44. ^ "The $50,630 Question". The Washington City Paper. Retrieved on 2007-09-22.
45. ^ http://msn.foxsports.com/cbk/recap?gameId=200703150615
46. ^ "GW Spirit Program". The George Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-10-26.
[edit] External links
* The George Washington University Main Page
* The GW and Foggy Bottom Historical Encyclopedia
* George Washington University Historical Photographs - online images of individuals, localities, objects, buildings, events, and groups associated with the history of the University.
* The George Washington University GWired - the student activity log and bulletin for event announcements
* GW Colonial Athletics
* Maps and aerial photos for [show location on an interactive map] 38°54′03″N 77°02′50″W / 38.900750, -77.047100Coordinates: [show location on an interactive map] 38°54′03″N 77°02′50″W / 38.900750, -77.047100
o Maps from WikiMapia, Google Maps, Live Search Maps, Yahoo! Maps, or MapQuest
o Topographic maps from TopoZone or TerraServer-USA
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)