The
University of Florida (Florida or
UF) is a public
land-grant, sea-grant, space-grant major research university located on a campus
located in Gainesville,
Florida
, in the United States. The university traces
its origins to 1853, and has continuously operated on its present
Gainesville campus since the fall of 1906. Florida is one of 62
elected members of the
Association of American
Universities (AAU). The university has been recognized as a
"
Public Ivy," and is currently ranked
47th overall among national universities in the 2010
U.S. News & World Report
rankings. It has
been consistently ranked one of the world's top 100 universities
(number 58 in 2008) by the
Academic Ranking of World
Universities report (ARWU).
The University of Florida is one of three "research flagship
universities" within the
State University System of
Florida designated by the
Florida Legislature. It is the
second-largest Florida university by
student
population, and the most academically prestigious university in
the State of Florida. The university is also the sixth largest
single-campus university in the United States by
student
population, with 49,679 students enrolled for the fall 2009
semester. It is the largest comprehensive university in the State
of Florida, as measured by the number of academic programs offered,
and is home to 17 colleges and more than 150 research centers and
institutes. Florida has one of the largest university budgets in
the United States at nearly $4.377 billion per year. As of the
2007-2008 academic year, Florida ranked twelfth among all
institutions in the number of new
National Merit Scholar
students enrolled. Researchers at the university developed the
well-known sports drink
Gatorade.
The University of Florida offers many graduate programs—including
engineering,
business administration,
law and
medicine—on one
contiguous campus, and administers 123
master's degree programs and 76
doctoral degree programs in 87 schools and
departments.
The University of Florida's
NCAA Division I athletic teams, known as the "
Florida Gators," compete in the
Southeastern Conference (SEC). In
its 103-year history of intercollegiate sports competition, the
university has won 22 national team championships, 17 of which are
NCAA titles, and 219 individual national
championships.
History
The University of Florida traces its origins
to 1853, when the East Florida
Seminary, one of the University of Florida's four
predecessor institutions, was founded in Ocala, Florida
.
On January
6, 1853, Florida Governor
Thomas Brown signed a bill
that provided public support for higher
education in the state of Florida
.
Gilbert Kingsbury was the first person to take advantage of the
legislation, and established the
East Florida Seminary.
The East Florida Seminary was the first state-supported institution
of higher learning in Florida.
James Henry Roper, an educator from North Carolina
and a state senator
from Alachua County, built a school,
the Gainesville
Academy, around the same time. In 1866, after East
Florida Seminary had closed during the
American Civil War, Roper offered his
land and school to the State of Florida in exchange for the
relocation of
East
Florida Seminary to Gainesville.
The second
major precursor to the University of Florida was the
Florida
Agricultural College, established at Lake
City
by Jordan Probst in 1884. Florida
Agricultural College became the state's first
land-grant college under the
Morrill Act. In 1903, the
Florida Legislature, desiring to expand
the school's outlook and curriculum beyond its agricultural and
engineering origins, changed the name of Florida Agricultural
College to the "University of Florida," a name that the school
would hold for only two years.
"University of the State of Florida"
In 1905, the
Buckman Act
consolidated the colleges of the state.
The member of the
Florida Legislature who wrote
the act, Henry Holland
Buckman, is the namesake of Buckman Hall
, one of the university's oldest buildings.
The Buckman Act reorganized the
State University System of
Florida and empowered the
Florida Board of Control to govern
the system.
The Act also mandated the merger of four
pre-existing state-supported institutions into the new
University of the State of Florida----the
University
of Florida at Lake City (formerly Florida Agricultural
College) in Lake
City, the East Florida
Seminary in Gainesville, the St. Petersburg Normal and
Industrial School in St.
Petersburg
, and the South Florida Military
College in Bartow
.
The Buckman Act also consolidated the colleges and schools into
three institutions segregated by race and sex—the University of the
State of Florida for white men, the Florida Female College for
white women, and the State Normal School for Colored Students for
African-American men and women.
On July 6,
1905, the Board of Control selected
Gainesville for the new university campus. Dr.
Andrew Sledd, president of the pre-existing
University of
Florida at Lake City, was selected to be the first president of
the new University of the State of Florida. The 1905-1906 academic
year was a year of transition; the new University of the State of
Florida was legally created, but operated on the campus of the old
University of Florida in Lake City until the buildings on the new
campus in Gainesville were completed. Architect William A. Edwards
designed the first official campus buildings in the
Collegiate Gothic style. Classes
began on new Gainesville campus on September 26, 1906 with 102
students.
In 1909, the name of the school was officially simplified from the
"University of the State of Florida" to the "University of
Florida."
The
alligator was incidentally chosen as
the school mascot in 1911, after a local vendor ordered and sold
school pennants with an alligator imprinted on them. The school
colors, orange and blue, are believed to be derived from the blue
and white school colors of the University of Florida at Lake City
and the orange and black colors of the East Florida Seminary at
Gainesville.
College reorganization
In 1909,
Albert Murphree was
appointed the second president of the university, and attempted to
organize the colleges of the university and increased the
enrollment of the school substantially. He is the only president
with a statue on the campus, and he was also instrumental in
founding the
Florida Blue Key
leadership society.
The University of Florida campus in
1916, looking southwest.
In 1924, the Florida Legislature mandated that women of a "mature
age" (at least 21 years old) who had completed 60 semester hours
from a "reputable educational institution" would be allowed to
enroll during regular semesters at the University of Florida in
programs that were unavailable at Florida State College for Women.
Before this, only the summer semester was coeducational,to
accommodate teachers.
Lassie
Goodbread-Black from Lake City became the first woman to enroll
at the University of Florida, in the College of Agriculture in
1925.
John J. Tigert became the fourth president in 1928.
Disgusted by the under-the-table payments being made by
universities to athletes, Tigert established the grant-in-aid
athletic scholarship program in
the early 1930s, which was the genesis of the modern athletic
scholarship plan that is currently being used by the
National Collegiate
Athletic Association.
Post World War II
Beginning in 1946, there was dramatically increased interest among
male applicants who wanted to attend the University of Florida,
mostly returning World War II veterans who could attend college
under the
GI Bill of Rights
(Servicemen's Readjustment Act).
Unable to immediately accommodate this
increased demand, the Florida Board of Control opened the
Tallahassee Branch of the University of Florida on
the campus of Florida State College for Women in Tallahassee
. By the end of the 1946-1947 school year,
954 men were enrolled at the Tallahassee Branch.
The following
semester, the Florida
Legislature returned the Florida State College for Women to
coeducational status and renamed it Florida
State University
. This sequence of events also opened up all
of the colleges that comprise the University of Florida to female
students. African-American students were allowed to enroll starting
in 1958.
Shands
Hospital first opened in 1958 along with the medical school.
Rapid campus expansion began in the 1950s and continues to the
present day.
National & international prominence
In 1985, the University of Florida was invited to become a member
of the
Association
of American Universities (AAU), an organization composed of 62
academically prominent public and private research universities in
the United States and Canada. Florida is one of only 17 public,
land-grant universities that belong to the AAU. In 2009, President
Bernie Machen and the
University of Florida
Board of Trustees announced a major policy transition for the
university. The Board of Trustees supported the reduction in the
number of undergraduates and the shift of financial and other
academic resources to graduate education and research in the
future.
The University of Florida has continued to rise in the
U.S. News & World Report
college and university
rankings.
In 2001, Florida was labeled a Public Ivy and was 2nd in Kiplinger's 2009 "Best Buys of Education" (behind
the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
). U.S. News currently
ranks the university as the 47th best national university; the
state of Florida policy-makers, university administrators and UF
alumni are actively working to advance the university as a top-10
public university.
Academics
Tuition
For the 2008-2009 academic year, annual undergraduate tuition is
$3,790 for in-state students, and $20,460 for out-of-state
students. For the 2008-2009 academic year, annual graduate tuition
is $8,190 for in-state students, and $23,315 for out-of-state
students. For the 2008-2009 academic year, annual law school
tuition is $10,800 for in-state students, and $30,100 for
out-of-state students.
For the 2008-2009 academic year, annual medical school tuition is
$23,930 for in-state students, and $51,777 for out-of-state
students.
Demographics
University of Florida students, numbering 51,413 in Fall 2008, come
from more than 130 countries, and all 50 states. The ratio of women
to men is 54:46, and 32 percent are graduate and professional
students. Professional degree programs include architecture,
dentistry, law, medicine, pharmacy and veterinary medicine.
Minority populations constitute 33.5 percent of the student body,
with 10.0 percent African-Americans, 15.0 percent Hispanics, 0.5
percent Native American, and 8.0 percent Asian-Americans or Pacific
Islanders.
During
the 2008-2009 academic year the University of Florida had the 12th
highest enrollment for Interational Students in the
United
States
. In total 4,731 international students
enrolled at the university and this equates to about 9 percent of
the total enrollment. This was more than any other university in
Florida. Also confirmed by
Peterson's the
International Student populations accounts for rougly 9.0% of the
entire student body.
The University of Florida is ranked second overall in the United
States for the number of bachelor's degrees awarded to
African-Americans, and third overall for Hispanics. The university
ranks fifth overall in the number of doctoral degrees awarded to
African-Americans, and second overall for Hispanics, and third
overall in number of professional degrees awarded to
African-Americans, and second overall for Hispanics. The university
offers many graduate programs—-including engineering, business, law
and medicine—-on one contiguous campus, and coordinates 123
master's degree programs and 76 doctoral degree programs in 87
schools and departments.
Rankings
In 2010,
U.S.
News & World
Report ranked the University of Florida as the 15th best
public university in the United States, and 47th overall among all
national universities, public and private. In addition,
U.S. News also ranked Florida as one of the ten
most popular national universities in the country, based on "yield
rates"--the percentages of students who actually enroll after being
accepted.
The 2007
Academic
Ranking of World Universities list assessed the university as
51st among world universities and 38th in the United States based
on overall research output and faculty awards. In 2009
Washington Monthly ranked the University
of Florida 26th overall. For 2007,
Newsweek ranked UF one of the "Top 25 Hottest
Schools". According to the
Webometrics Ranking of
World Universities in 2009, the university ranks 22nd best all
around.
Another
study by the Research Center for Chinese Science Evaluation of
Wuhan
University
ranks Florida 37th in the world. The ranking
is based on Essential Science Indicators (ESI), which provides data
of journal article publication counts and citation frequencies in
over 11,000 journals around the world in 22 research fields.
Florida ranked 2nd among all universities in
Kiplinger's "100 Best Values in Public Colleges"
(2006, 2007 & 2008) and 4th in
The Scientist
magazine's "Best Places to Work in Academia" (2005); its was also
ranked the best overall in top values amongst all the public
flagship universities by
USA Today (2006). The university admitted
1,049
International
Baccalaureate students for the 2004-2005 academic year - more
than any other university in the world. The freshmen retention rate
of 94 percent is among the highest in the U.S.
UF's ranked college placement 13th best by "
The Princeton Review" in its "2009
Best 368 Colleges Rankings".
Admissions
Fall freshman
statistics
| |
2009 |
2008 |
2007 |
2006 |
| Applicants |
27,850 |
27,865 |
24,040 |
21,710 |
| Admits |
10,294 |
10,289 |
10,294 |
10,474 |
| % Admitted |
36.96 |
36.92 |
42.82 |
48.24 |
This table does not account deferred
applications or other unique situations.
As the acceptance rate at the University of Florida has trended
downward, the application process has become increasingly
competitive. The university has a freshmen retention rate of 94%.
For the first-year students that enrolled at UF in 2008, the median
SAT score is 1240 - 1410, and the Median GPA was 4.1 - 4.4. UF's
class of 2007 yield rate was at 57%.
In the words of
Sarasota
Herald-Tribune reporter Anna Scott, "Three years after
university officials capped the size of the freshman class at about
6,600, competition at UF is at an all-time high, forcing admissions
officers to choose among the brightest and leaving behind an
unprecedented number of disappointed families. Of those who applied
to be part of last fall's incoming freshman class, an estimated
36.92 percent were accepted -- the lowest acceptance rate in the
history of the state's public schools." Selectivity at the state's
top university is expected to heighten as UF continues to work
toward becoming one of the nation's Top 10 public universities. In
2008, the acceptances reached a new low when out of 28,000
applicants, only 10,000 were accepted (An acceptance rate of around
37 percent).
Ending early decision
In 2007,
the University of Florida joined the University
of Virginia
, Harvard University
, the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, and Princeton University
when they announced that they were discontinuing
their early decision admissions in an
effort to help foster economic diversity in their student
bodies. These universities assert that early decision
admissions forces students to accept an offer of admission before
evaluating the
financial aid
offers from multiple universities. The university's single
application deadline has been set for November 1.
Honors program
The University of Florida has a nationally-recognized
honors program. After gaining acceptance to
the university, students must apply separately to the Honors
Program and demonstrate significant academic achievement to be
accepted. There are over 100 courses offered exclusively to
students in this program.
Entering freshman in the program must have a weighted GPA of at
least 4.0 and an SAT score of 2070 out of 2400 or an ACT score of
33. The Honors Program also offers housing for freshman in the
Honors Residential College at Hume Hall.
The Honors Program also offers special
scholarships,
internships, research,
study abroad opportunities.
Sustainability
In 2005,
the University of Florida became a Certified
Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary
for environmental and wildlife management, resource
conservation, enivormental education, waste management, and
outreach.
Through long-term enivornmental iniatives, the University of
Florida created an Office of Sustainability in 2006. Their mission
is to continue to improve environmental sustainability in many
different areas on campus. They have stated that their future goals
are to produce zero waste by 2015, and to achieve Carbon Neutrality
by 2025. Recently the university appointed Anna Prizzia as the
University’s new Sustainability Director. UF received a "B+" grade
on the 2009 College Sustainability Report Card for its
environmental and sustainability initiatives. In 2009 "B+" was the
second highest grade awarded by the Sustainable Endowments
Institute.
Colleges and academic divisions
The University of Florida is divided into 16 colleges and more than
100 research, service and education centers, bureaus and
institutes, offering over 100 undergraduate majors and 200 graduate
degrees.
These colleges include:
Satellite facilities
The university also maintains a number of facilities apart from its
main campus. The
J. Hillis Miller Health
Science Center also has a teaching hospital located at
Shands Jacksonville that offers degrees
in conjunction with the
College of
Medicine,
College of
Dentistry,
College of Nursing,
and
College of
Pharmacy. A number of residencies are also offered at this
facility.
The University's College of Pharmacy also
maintains campuses in Orlando
and St. Petersburg. The College of Dentistry has campuses in
South
Florida
and St. Petersburg.
The
university's Warrington
College of Business established programs in South Florida back in 2004, and recently built a 6,100 square
foot facility in Sunrise,
Florida
. The Institute of Food
and Agricultural Sciences has extensions in each of the 67
counties in Florida, and 13
research and education centers with a total of 19 locations
throughout Florida. In 2005, the university established the
Beijing Center for International
Studies that offers research facilities, offices, and degree
opportunities.
Research
The University of Florida is one of the largest research
universities in the nation, contributes nearly $6 billion annually
to Florida's economy, and is responsible for nearly 75,000 jobs.
The Milken Institute named UF one of the top-five U.S. institutions
in the transfer of
biotechnology
research to the marketplace (2006). Some 50 biotechnology companies
have resulted from faculty research programs. UF consistently ranks
among the top-10 universities in licensing. Royalty and licensing
income includes the glaucoma drug
Trusopt,
the sports drink
Gatorade, and the
Sentricon
termite elimination system. The
Institute of
Food and Agricultural Sciences, ranked #1 by the NSF in
Research and Development, is part of the
Flagship University and the current Vice
President is Dr. Larry Arrington. It should also be noted that the
UF is currently ranked seventh among all private & public
universities for the total number of patents awarded for
2005.
The University of Florida was awarded $583 million in total
research expenditures, more than all the other Florida universities
combined, in sponsored research in 2006-2007. Research includes
diverse areas such as health-care and citrus production (the
world's largest citrus research center).
In 2002, UF began
leading six other universities under a $15 million NASA
grant to
work on a variety of space-related research during a five-year
period. UF has a partnership with Spain that helped
to create the world's largest single-aperture optical
telescope
in the Canary Islands (the total cost was $93
million). Plans are also under way for the University
of Florida to construct a new research facility in collaboration
with the Burnham
Institute for Medical Research that will ultimately be located
in the center of UCF
's Health
Sciences Campus in Orlando, Florida. Research will include the areas of
diabetes, aging, genetics and cancer.
| Graduate and Professional Student Enrollment |
| Fall 2008 |
16,214 |
| Fall 2007 |
15,885 |
| Fall 2006 |
15,357 |
| Fall 2005 |
14,594 |
| Fall 2004 |
13,882 |
| Fall 2003 |
13,482 |
| Fall 2002 |
12,902 |
| Fall 2001 |
12,348 |
| Fall 2000 |
11,953 |
| Fall 1999 |
11,216 |
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The University of Florida has made great strides in the space
sciences over the last decade. The Astronomy Department's focus on
the development of image-detection devices has led to increases in
funding, telescope time, and significant scholarly achievements.
Faculty
members in organic chemistry have made notable discoveries in
astrobiology, while faculty members in physics have participated
actively in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave
Observatory
project, the largest and most ambitious project
ever funded by the NSF. Through the Department of Mechanical
and Aerospace Engineering, the University of Florida is the lead
institution on the NASA University Research, Engineering, and
Technology Institute (URETI) for Future Space Transport project to
develop the next generation space shuttle. In addition, UF is also
doing some innovative Diabetes Research In a statewide screening
program, that has been sponsored by a $10 million grant from the
American Diabetes
Association. The University of Florida also houses one of the
world's leading lightning research teams. Also UF scientists have
started up a biofuels pilot plant that has been specifically
designed to test ethanol-producing technology. UF is also host to a
nuclear research reactor which
is known for its Neutron Activation Analysis Laboratory.
In
addition, the University of Florida is the first American
university to receive a European
Union grant to house a Jean Monnet
Centre of Excellence.
Health Science Center
The
J.
Hillis Miller Health
Science Center (HSC) has facilities in Gainesville and Jacksonville
. The HSC comprises the universities's
Colleges of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health
& Health Professions and Veterinary Medicine. The Health
Science Center is the only academic health center in the United
States with six health-related colleges located on a single,
contiguous campus. The facility was named after the 4th President
of the University of Florida
J. Hillis Miller, Sr.. In all the HSC
generates over $280 million in total research expenditures for the
2008-2009 fiscal year. The Health Science Center focus on
blindness, hypertension and smoking cessation.
The Health Science Center is also affiliated with
Shands at the University of
Florida,
Shands
Jacksonville, and the
Veterans
Affairs hospitals in Gainesville and North Florida/South
Georgia. In all 6,159 total students are enrolled in all six of the
colleges.
Currently being constructed is a new
University of
Florida Cancer Hospital which can be found on Archer road in
Gainesville. The facility is estimated to cost $388
million, and is expected to be 500,000 square feet. The
McKnight Brain Institute is also
part of the Health Science Center and is the most comprehensive
program of its kind in the world. The Institute comprises 300
faculty members from 10 colleges, and 51 departments
campus-wide.
The
University of Florida is a winner of the National
Institutes of Health
Clinical and Translational Science Award and member
of the prestigious NIH national consortium of medical research
institutions.
Partnership with Moffitt Center
In January 2008 the University of Florida,
H.
Lee
Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, and
Shands at the University of
Florida formed a partnership to develop world-class programs in
cancer care, research and prevention. The partnership, will extend
Moffitt's innovative model of comprehensive patient care to UF and
Shands cancer programs.
Participation in the Large Hadron Collider
A team of
UF physicists has a leading role in one of the two major
experiments planned for the Large Hadron Collider
, a 17-mile-long, $5 billion, super-cooled
underground tunnel outside Geneva, Switzerland. More than 30 UF
physicists, postdoctoral associates, graduate students and now
undergraduates are involved in the collider's Compact Muon
Solenoid
(CMS) experiment, one of its two major
experiments. About 10 are stationed in Geneva. The group is
the largest from any university in the U.S. to participate in the
CMS experiment. The UF team designed and oversaw development of a
major detector within the CMS. The detector, the Muon system, is
intended to capture subatomic particles called muons, which are
heavier cousins of electrons. Among other efforts, UF scientists
analyzed about 100 of the 400 detector chambers placed within the
Muon system to be sure they were functioning properly. The bulk of
the UF research was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Partnership with Zhejiang University
In July
2008, the University of Florida teamed up with the Zhejiang
University
to research sustainable solutions to the Earth's
energy issues. Overall a Joint Research Center of Clean
Sustainable Energy among the Florida Institute for Sustainable
Energy, at UF, and the State Key Lab of Clean Energy Utilization
and the Institute for Thermal Power Engineering, at Zhejiang
University will collaborate to work on this pressing issue.
Libraries
The Smathers Library, first opened in 1926, is the oldest library
at the university
The University of Florida's
George A. Smathers Libraries, is one of
the largest university library systems in the United States. In total, the University of Florida has ten
libraries, and over 5.3 million volumes of books and journals and 7
million microfilms. Collections cover virtually all disciplines and
include a wide array of formats – from books and journals to
manuscripts, maps, and recorded music. Increasingly collections are
digital and are accessible on the Internet via the library web page
or the library catalog.
The numerous libraries provide primary support to all academic
programs except those served by the Health Science Center Library
and the
Lawton
Chiles Legal Information Center. In 2006,
Library West went through
a $30 million dollar renovation that doubled capacity. This
facility is now better equipped to handle the information
technology necessities that students need to complete their
studies. Such progress is represented by its state of the art
Information Commons
[9593], which offers production studios, digital media
computing areas, and a presentation area.
Academic honesty
"In 1995 the University of Florida Student Body revamped the
previous
Honor Codeand voluntarily
committed itself to the highest standards of honesty and integrity.
When students enroll at the University of Florida, they commit
themselves to the standard drafted and enacted by students."
On my honor, I have neither given nor received unauthorized
aid in doing this assignment.
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Campus
In total the University of Florida campus encompasses over 2,000
acres (8.1 km²).
The campus is home to many notable
structures, such as Century
Tower
, a 157 foot tall carillon
tower in the center of the historic district. Other notable
facilities include the Health Science
Center, Ben Hill Griffin Stadium
, Reitz Student Union
, Smathers Library
, Phillips Center for the Performing
Arts
, Harn Museum
, University Auditorium
, O'Connell Center
, and The Hub
.
Historic sites
A number of the University of Florida's buildings are historically
significant.
The University of Florida Campus Historic
District
comprises 19 buildings and encompasses
approximately . Two buildings outside the historic district,
the old WRUF
radio station
(now the university police station) and the old
P. K.
Yonge Laboratory School (now Norman
Hall), are also listed on the historic register. The buildings
listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places for their
architectural or historic significance are:
Student life
Career development and internships
The
Career Resource
Center at the Reitz Student Union
helps by providing a comprehensive,
state-of-the-art facility. The Center provides services for
students and alumni to assist them to achieve career development,
career experiences, and employment opportunities.
Fraternities & sororities
Approximately 5,200 undergraduate students (or approximately 15%)
are members of either a sorority or fraternity.
Sorority and
Fraternity Affairs (formerly
known as Greek Life) at the University of Florida is separated into
four divisions:
Interfraternity
Council (IFC),
National Panhellenic
Conference (NPC),
Multicultural Greek
Council (MGC), and the
National Pan-Hellenic Council
(NPHC). The
Order of Omega has a
chapter at the university.
The Interfraternity Council (IFC) comprises 25 fraternities, and
the Panhellenic Council is made up of 16 sororities. Some of the
fraternities on campus are older than the university itself with
the first fraternities being founded in 1884.
The Multicultural Greek Council consists of 13 cultural
organizations (
Latino,
Asian,
South Asian,
etc.), seven fraternities and six sororities. The National
Pan-Hellenic Council comprises nine historically-black
organizations, five fraternities and four sororities). There are
now also two recognized fraternal organizations for Christian
students.
Reserve Officer Training Corps
The University of Florida
Reserve Officer Training
Corps is the official
officer training and commissioning
program at the University of Florida. Officially founded in 1905,
it is one of the oldest such programs in the nation.
The Reserve Officer Training Corps offers commissions for the
United States Army,
United States Navy,
United States Marine Corps, and
the
United States Air Force.
The unit is one of the oldest in the nation, and is currently
located at
Van
Fleet Hall.
The Reserve Officer Training Corps at the University of Florida
offers training in the military sciences to students who desire to
perform military service after they graduate. The Departments of
the
Army,
Air
Force, and
Navy each maintain a
Reserve Officers Training Corps and each individual department has
a full staff of military personnel.
Housing
The University of Florida provides over 9,200 students with housing
in residence halls and complexes on the eastern and western sides
of campus. Facilities vary in the cost of rent and privacy. Housing
plans also offer students access to dining facilities. The
university also provides housing to a number of graduate students
and their families.
Recreation
Many
recreational activities available for students include indoor and
outdoor sports, outdoor courts and playing fields on campus, in the
Stephen
C. O'Connell Center, University Golf
Course, Plaza of the
Americas, the Student Recreation and Fitness Center, the
Southwest
Recreation Center, and the Florida
Gymnasium
for indoor sports. Florida offers intramural
and club sports ranging from archery to weightlifting.
Near the campus are
many recreational lakes and rivers, including university-owned
Lake
Alice
. In addition, student have access to the
J. Wayne Reitz Union which is equipped with a bowling
alley, pool tables, an arcade, and numerous other activities.
South of
Gainesville is Lake
Wauburg
, which also provides recreational activities for
students, faculty, and staff. To the northwest of
campus is the Devil's Millhopper Geological State
Park
.
The campus also contains open spaces, small ponds, picnic areas,
shady nooks and an 81-acre wildlife sanctuary that provide
opportunities to enjoy Florida's year-round sunshine activity
life.
Lastly, the University of Florida has more than eight hundred
organizations and clubs for students to join. They range from
cultural and athletic to subjects pertaining to philanthropy. Some
of the most popular organizations are
Florida Blue Key,
Theatre Strike Force, the
Marching Band,
Florida Competitive
Cheerleading,
Dazzlers,
the
Gatorettes,
Hillel at UF, the
student newspaper,
Gator Growl,
Progressive Black
Journalists,
Miss
University of Florida, and the
Speakers Bureau. If students wish
they can create their own registered
student organization if the current
interest or concern is not addressed by the previously established
entities.
Student affairs rankings
The University of Florida received the following rankings by
"
The Princeton Review" in its
"2010
Best 368 Colleges Rankings:"
| Category |
Rankings |
| Best Career/Job Placement Services |
1st overall |
| Jock School |
2nd overall |
| Students Pack the Stadium |
2nd overall |
| Party School |
2nd overall |
| Lots of Beer |
4th overall |
| Best College Newspaper |
8th overall |
| Major Frat and Sorority Scene |
12th overall |
| Everyone Plays Intramural Sports |
15th overall |
Student government
Seal for the UF Student
Government
The
University of Florida Student Government is the
governing body of students who attend the University of Florida,
representing the university's more than 51,000 undergraduate,
graduate and professional students. The university's student
government currently operates on a yearly $13.8 million dollar
budget, one of the largest student government budgets in the United
States.
The student government was established in 1909 and consists of
executive, judicial and unicameral legislative branches. The
executive branch includes the student government president, vice
president and treasurer elected by the student body during the
spring semester, as well as 9 agencies and 41 cabinet
members.
The student senate is the legislative branch, and is composed of
100 senators who serve one-year terms. The student body elects 50
senators during each spring semester and the remaining 50 during
the fall semester. The senators elect a senate president and senate
President pro tempore twice a year, after each semester's
elections, to lead the student senate. During student government
elections students may also vote on referendums, such as the
renewable energy referendum, which was approved by 78% of voting
students in the spring of 2007. This referendum proposed a 50-cent
per credit hour increase to student activity fees to fund renewable
energy and efficiency on campus.
The student government judicial branch has three major components:
the student supreme court (headed by a chief justice), the student
honor court (headed by the honor court chancellor elected each
spring), and the student traffic court (headed by a chief justice).
The supreme court consists of 5 second or third-year law students
nominated by the student government president and confirmed by the
student senate. Each justice serves a "life-time" term, which
extends through the individual justice's graduation and insulates
the court from the politics of student government. The chief
justice may appoint a marshal and clerk. The election commission,
which listens and adjudicates all student government election
complaints, is also part of the judicial branch. The commission
includes 6 members, one of whom also serves as the commission
chairman.
Alma Mater
The
Alma Mater for the
University of Florida was composed by Milton Yeats in 1925.
Campus & area transportation
The UF campus is served by nine bus routes of the
Gainesville Regional Transit
System (RTS). Students, faculty, and staff with
university-issued ID cards are able to use the system at no extra
cost. The RTS also provides other campus services, including Gator
Aider (during football games) and Later Gator nighttime
service..
University of Florida is also served by the
Gainesville
Regional Airport
, which is located in the Northeast portion of
Gainesville and has daily services to Atlanta
and Charlotte
.
Student media
The University of Florida supports six major student-run media
outlets.
- The Independent
Florida Alligator is the largest student-run newspaper in the U.S. and
operates without oversight from the university administration.
- WLUF-LP is a low-power television station that
carries a mix of educational and PBS programming.
- WRUF (850 AM) features a mixture of
local and syndicated talk programs, award-winning student-produced
newscasts and sports talk shows, plus religious programming on
Sunday mornings.
- WRUF-FM
(103.7 FM) broadcasts Rock music and attracts an
audience from the Gainesville and Ocala
areas.
- WUFT
is a
PBS member station with
a variety of programming that includes a daily student-produced
newscast.
- WUFT-FM (89.1 FM) is an NPR member radio
station which airs news and public affairs programming, including
student-produced long-form news reporting. WUFT-FM's programming
also airs on WJUF-FM (90.1).
Various other journals and magazines are published by the
university's academic units and student groups, including the
literary journal
Subtropics.
Museums
The
Florida
Museum of Natural History
, established in 1891, is one of the oldest natural
history museums in the country and was officially chartered by the
State of Florida. This
facility is dedicated to understanding, preserving and interpreting
biological diversity and cultural heritage.
In over 100 years of
operations the Florida Museum of Natural History has been housed in
several buildings, from the Seagle Building
to facilities at Dickinson Hall, Powell Hall, and
the Randell Research Center. In 2000 the McGuire Center for
Lepidoptera and Biodiversity was opened after a generous donation
from University of Florida benefactors.
The McGuire Center
houses a collection of more than six million butterfly and moth
specimens, making it one of the largest collections of Lepidoptera in the world, rivaling that of the
Natural
History Museum
in London, England
.
The
Samuel
P. Harn Museum of Art, established in 1990, is also located at the
University of Florida on the southwest part of campus. This
facility is one of the largest university art museums in the
Southeast, the Harn has
more than 7,000 works in its
permanent collection and an array of
temporary exhibitions. The museum's permanent collections are
focused on
Asian,
African,
modern and
contemporary art, as well as
photography. The university sponsors
educational programs at the museum including films, lectures,
interactive activities, and school and family offerings. In October
2005 the Harn expanded by more than 18,000 square feet with the
opening of the Mary Ann Harn Cofrin Pavilion, which includes new
educational and meeting areas and the Camellia Court Cafe, the
first eatery for visitors of the Cultural Plaza.
Performing arts and music
Performing arts venues at the University of
Florida consist of the Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing
Arts, the University Auditorium, Constans Theatre,
the Baughman Center, and
performances at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center. The mission is to provide an unparalleled
experience where the performing artists create and share knowledge
to serve the student body, faculty, and staff at the university;
Gainesville residents; and visitors to North Central Florida.
The
University Auditorium was founded in the mid 1920's and is home to the
Anderson Memorial Organ. The auditorium has a concert stage
and can seat up to 843 patrons. The venue is suitable for
musical concerts,
special
lectures,
convocations, dance
concerts, and pageants.
The
Phillips Center for the Performing
Arts was founded in 1992 and is a performing arts
theatre. The Phillips Center is
located on the western side of campus, and hosts established and
emerging national and international artists on the main stage, as
well as the annual
Miss
University of Florida pageant. In all, the Phillips Center
consists of a 1,700-seat
proscenium hall
and the 200-seat Squitieri Studio Theatre.
Constans Theatre was founded in 1967 and is
a performing arts venue located next to the J. Wayne Reitz Union. Constans Theatre serves as a venue for
musical concerts, theater, dance, and lectures, and is a sub-venue
of the Nadine McGuire Pavilion and Dance Pavilion.
The
Baughman Center was founded in
2000 and serves as a venue for small musical and performing arts
events.
The facility consists of two buildings
located next to Lake Alice on the western portion of campus. The main
building is a 1,500-square-foot pavilion, while the other is a
1,000-square-foot administrative building. Overall the Baughman
Center can accomodate up to 96 patrons.
In popular culture
The University of Florida has been portrayed in several films,
books, and television shows.
Athletics
The University of Florida's intercollegiate sports teams are called
the "
Florida Gators." The Gators
compete in the Eastern Division of the
Southeastern Conference and
NCAA Division I. In football, Florida competes in the
NCAA
Football Bowl
Subdivision (FBS), still often referred to by its former
designation of "Division I-A."
The Gators have a number of rivalries, most
notably with in-state rival Florida State University, and their SEC Eastern Division competitors, the
University
of Georgia
and the University of Tennessee
. For the 2009-2010 school year, the
University
Athletic Association has budgeted more $85 million for its
sports teams and facilities. Since 1986, the Gators have won 19 of
the last 23 SEC All-Sports Trophies, recognizing Florida as the
best overall athletics program in the SEC. Florida's athletic
program has ranked among the nation's top five in 12 of the past 17
years, and is the only Division I program that has ranked among the
top 10 athletic programs in the country in each of the last 23
years.
Florida has won a total of 25 team national championships, 17 of
which are NCAA championships. Florida is the second Division I FBS
school to win multiple national championships in each of the two
most popular NCAA sports: football (1996, 2006, and 2008) and men's
basketball (2006 and 2007). With a 41–14 win over number-one-ranked
Ohio State University in the 2006 BCS National Championship Game
(on January 8, 2007 in Glendale, Arizona), Florida became the only
Division I school in NCAA history to hold football and basketball
titles during the same school year. The football team also went
12–1 during the 2008 season, and won its eighth SEC Championship on
the road to winning the 2008 BCS Championship Game (on January 8,
2009 in Miami, Florida).
Olympics
The University of Florida has a reputation and long history of
producing athletes who compete in the
Olympic Games. Hundreds of University of
Florida
alumni have competed or coached in
the Olympic Games. In total 150 Gator athletes from over 30
different countries have competed in the Games, winning 44 Olympic
gold medals, 23
silver medals and 23
bronze medals (through the end of the
2008 Summer Olympics). The list of
notable Gator Olympians and gold medalists includes sprinters
Kerron Clement,
Dennis Mitchell, and
Bernard Williams; marathon runner
Frank Shorter; baseball outfielder
Brad Wilkerson; basketball forward
DeLisha Milton-Jones; soccer
forward
Abby Wambach; and swimmers
Ryan Lochte,
Tracy Caulkins,
Nicole Haislett and
Dara Torres.
Football
University of Florida fielded its first
varsity football team in the fall of
1906, when the university held its first classes on its new
Gainesville campus. Since then, the
Florida Gators football team has
played in 36 bowl games, won 3 national championships and 8
Southeastern Conference
championships, produced 135 All-Americans, 35 NFL first round draft
choices, and 3
Heisman Trophy
winners.
William A. Shands, a future member of the
Florida Senate, and the namesake of
Shands Hospital in Gainesville, played for
the 1908 team. The Gators earned nationwide recognition in the
1920s with several fantastic finishes and wins. Florida originally
competed in the
Southern
Conference, and won the national scoring title in 1928 with an
8–1 record. In 1933, President John J. Tigert joined with several
other Southern Conference presidents to form the new
Southeastern Conference (SEC), which
Tigert would eventually lead as commissioner. The 1930s and 1940s
were not nearly as kind to the Gators. UF did have several
significant stars, including All-American Fergie Ferguson in 1941.
In 1949, the iconic cheerleader
Mr. Two
Bits attended his first game and began the tradition of leading
the fans in the "two bits" cheer for five decades.
Florida's played its first post-season game on Christmas Day 1912
in Havana, Cuba in the Bacardi Bowl, in which the Gators defeated
the Vedado Athletic Club 28-0.
Florida's first sanctioned bowl game come
was a 14-13 victory over Tulsa
in the 1953 Gator
Bowl. During the 1950s, the Gators 6-4 against the
University
of Georgia in the 1950s, and had eight winning seasons during
the decade. Coach Ray Graves led the Gators football program
to unprecedented success and consistency in the 1960s; the Gators
had nine winning seasons and played in five bowl games, racking up
the winningest decade in Florida history to date. The first major
bowl appearance by UF was a 20–18 loss to the Missouri Tigers in
the 1965
Sugar Bowl.
Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Steve
Spurrier led the Gators to a 9–2 record in 1966 and a 27-12 victory
over Georgia Tech in that year's
Orange Bowl. Sophomores John Reaves and
Carlos Alvarez led UF to a 9–2 record and a Gator Bowl win in 1969.
The 1970s were a time of promise and disappointment for UF.
The
Gators played in four bowl games under new coach and former QB
Doug Dickey, who left the head coaching
job at the University of Tennessee for his alma mater, but could never quite get
Florida their first SEC title. In 1979, Coach
Charley Pell took over at UF and created a
feared program in the conference; the Gators finished #6 in the
nation in 1983 and had one of the best defenses in the nation, led
by
Wilber Marshall, the Defensive
Player of the Year. UF then had consecutive top-ten finishes and
claimed first place in the SEC standings in 1984 and 1985. The 1984
title was stripped by the SEC for NCAA sanctions.
Emmitt Smith highlighted the Gators in the late
1980s, setting the all-time UF rushing mark in 1989.
In 1990, former Gator quarterback
Steve
Spurrier returned to UF as the head coach, and led UF to
another first place finish in the SEC, but again UF was denied a
league title due to probation stemming from activities in the
1980s. Florida's first official SEC football championship came in
1991 during a 10–2 campaign. Spurrier quickly built the Gators into
the dominant team in the SEC, winning a string of conference
championships in 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 2000.
The
Gators, led by Spurrier and quarterback
Danny Wuerffel, won their first
national championship in 1996 with a 52–20 victory over arch-rival
FSU in the Sugar Bowl, after
losing the regular season finale to those same Seminoles.
(Purportedly, this is the first and only time a national
championship in American college football was won by beating a
primary rival in a bowl game.) Wuerffel would also claim UF's
second Heisman Trophy.
The
Florida Gators are one of only
three schools ever to win ten games for six straight seasons
(1993-98), and one of only three ever to win at least nine games
for twelve straight years (1990-2001). It is one of only six major
college schools ever to win 100 games during a decade; they went
102-22-1 in the 1990s. UF also claimed the most SEC wins by any
school in a decade (73) and the NCAA considered them a
dynasty from 1990 to 2001—Spurrier's entire tenure
in Gainesville.
In January 2002, Spurrier left the Gators to coach the NFL's
Washington Redskins, after
having won six SEC titles and a national championship in his
12-year tenure as head coach.
Urban
Meyer has been the head football coach since December
2004.
Traditional football rivals include the
Florida
State University Seminoles one of the
largest rivalries in NCAA football, University of Miami
Hurricanes, the University of Georgia Bulldogs in the annual The World's Largest
Outdoor Cocktail Party in Jacksonville, Florida, and since the early 1990s, the University
of Tennessee Volunteers
. The University of South Carolina
has also become a "rival" since the hiring of
former head coach Steve Spurrier as the current Gamecock head coach. The University of
Florida and in-state rival Florida State University began their
series in 1958. The Gators currently lead the series 32-19-2,
including five consecutive wins over the Seminoles.
The
Gators' home stadium is Ben Hill Griffin Stadium at Florida Field, one of the largest and loudest
football stadiums in the country. Florida Field was
originally built in 1930 and has been expanded several times to now
hold over 90,000 fans. The stadium is popularly known as "The
Swamp", and was given the nickname by
Steve Spurrier in the early 1990s, who
quipped that "only the Gators get out alive." The Sporting News
named Florida as the top college crowd in the nation and gave
Florida Field the honor of the nation's loudest stadium. In 2007,
Sports Illustrated ranked Ben
Hill Griffin Stadium as the third best college venue in the nation,
and was the first overall for college football.
Celebrating 100 years of Florida football, the Gators finished the
2006 regular season with a record of 13-1, and captured the
SEC Championship with a 38-28
victory over Arkansas at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia.
Florida
moved to second place in the Bowl Championship Series (BCS)
rankings and convincingly defeated the top-ranked Ohio State
University
Buckeyes 41-14 for the BCS National Championship on
January 8, 2007, in Glendale, Arizona
. Starting quarterback
Chris Leak was named the game's Most Valuable
Player. It was the Gators' second consensus national championship,
and made UF the first school ever to hold the Division I men's
basketball title and the BCS football title at the same time. On
January 8, 2009, coach Urban Meyer once more led the Gator football
team to the
BCS Championship
Game, where the Gators defeated the
Oklahoma Sooners 24 to 14 to win the third
national championship in school history.
Basketball
The O'Connell Center is home to the UF
men's basketball team
The UF men's
basketball squad has also
come to prominence in recent years. They went to the
Final Four in 1994 under coach
Lon Kruger. Since 1996, they have been coached by
Billy Donovan, who is credited with
bringing national acclaim to the program.
Donovan returned the
Gators to the Final Four in 2000, and into the NCAA Championship
game, where they lost to Michigan State
. They won their first Southeastern Conference
Tournament title in 2005, beating the University
of Kentucky
, their primary basketball rival.
After
repeating as SEC tournament champs in 2006, the Gators went on to
win the first basketball National Championship in the history of
the state of Florida, defeating the UCLA
Bruins 73–57 on April 3, 2006, at the RCA Dome
in Indianapolis, Indiana
. Joakim Noah was
named MVP of the tournament.
The men's
basketball team plays home games in the Stephen
C. O'Connell Center, popularly nicknamed the "O-Dome". The
O'Connell Center was also nicknamed the "House of Horrors" in 1999
by ESPN Magazine, due to its reputation as one of the most
intimidating venues in the country for opposing teams.
This 12,000-seat
multi-purpose arena is located directly adjacent to the "The
Swamp", Florida's football stadium, and has served in its
capacity since opening in 1980. The student section of the
O-Dome has been dubbed the "Rowdy Reptiles."
The Florida Gators routed the Arkansas Razorbacks 77-56 on March
11, 2007 to win the SEC tournament title for the third consecutive
year. Florida joined Kentucky and Alabama as the only schools to
have won three consecutive SEC Tournaments.
Florida
defeated Ohio State 84–75 on April 2, 2007 at the Georgia Dome
in Atlanta, Georgia to win the national championship for the second
consecutive year; the first team to repeat since Duke
in 1991–1992. The team became the first
in history to win back-to-back championships with the same
returning starting lineup.
The 2007 football and men's basketball
championships both came at the expense of the same school, Ohio State
, and also defeated the Arkansas Razorbacks for the SEC championship in both football and
basketball in the same academic year; neither of these events had
occurred previously. They also became the first school to
hold both the football and basketball championships at the same
time (defeating Ohio State in 2007 & defeating UCLA in 2006)
and in the same school year.
Notable alumni
The University of Florida has more than 340,000 alumni. The alumni
account for multiple
Nobel Prize
winners, nine
U.S. Senators, almost 40
U.S. Representatives, 11
state governors, and eight
U.S. ambassadors,
multiple state supreme court judges, and various federal courts
judges.
UF graduates have served at the head of
such diverse and important institutions as the United States
Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Trade Commission, MTV, the United
States Marine Corps, the National Organization for
Women, FedEx, Burger King, NASCAR, the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the
Boston Red Sox, Nike
, and
Boeing Enterprises. In addition alumni
have been Presidents of Rice
University, Rutgers University
, Florida State University, the College of Charleston
, Randolph-Macon College
, the University of Central
Florida
, New College of Florida
, the University of South Florida
, and Miami University
.
Major corporations run by graduates include
Merrill Lynch,
Northwest Airlines,
Gartner, the
Hudson's Bay Company,
Deloitte & Touche,
J. C. Penney, Reebok, Macy's
, Scripps, Golin Harris International,
Discover Financial, Avaya, Walt Disney,
Amtrak, The
Richards Group, Scripps, the Gate Petroleum Company, and the Houston Astros. Major regulatory
bodies such as the
Federal Communications
Commission, the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
the
American Bar
Association, and the
United States
Department of Transportation have had University of Florida
alumni at the helm in the modern era. In addition, UF has a history
of 12
Rhodes Scholars.
Among the individuals who have attended or graduated from the
University of Florida are actress
Faye
Dunaway,
Price is Right announcer
Rich Fields, author
Michael Connelly, Nobel Prize winners
Marshall Nirenberg and
Robert Grubbs, pilot
Paul Tibbets, governor & senator
Bob Graham, reporter
Stephanie Abrams, musician
Mel Tillis, award winning architect
Lawrence Scarpa, poet
Geri Doran, director
Jonathan Demme, comedian
Darrell Hammond, columnist
Kiki Carter, congressman
Adam Putnam, actor
Stephen Root, sportscaster
Red Barber, sportscaster
Jesse Palmer, producer
Scott Sanders, senator &
governor
Lawton Chiles, TV personality
Bob Vila, novelists
Kate DiCamillo and
Carl Hiaasen, judges
William Dimitrouleas and
Harold Sebring, administrators
Carol Browner and
Alan Stephenson Boyd, inventor
John Atanasoff, astronaut & senator
Bill Nelson, owner of Yankees franchise
Hal Steinbrenner, guitarist &
songwriter
Stephen Stills, and the
daughter of
Dave
Thomas,
Wendy Thomas, the namesake
of the food-chain
Wendy's also attended the
University of Florida.
The University of Florida has also been home to over 125
Olympians throughout the years, nearly 150
active and retired
NFL
football players and 3
Heisman Trophy
winners, more than 30
MLB baseball players, 30
NBA basketball
players, and over 40
PGA Tour &
LPGA golfers.
Famous University of Florida athletes
include the NFL all-time
leading rusher Emmitt Smith, NFL Hall
of Fame
football player Jack
Youngblood, tennis players Lisa
Raymond and Jesse Levine, golfer
Tommy Aaron, basketball star Joakim Noah, baseball player David Eckstein, soccer players Abby Wambach and Heather Mitts, swimmers Tracy Caulkins, Nicole Haislett, Ryan
Lochte and Dara Torres, and football
coach Steve Spurrier.
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Notable faculty
Individual awards won by UF faculty include
a Fields Medal, numerous Pulitzer Prizes, and NASA's top award
for research and Smithsonian Institution's conservation
award. There are currently more than 60 Eminent Scholar
chairs, and nearly 60 faculty elections to the National Academy of
Sciences, Engineering, or Arts and Sciences, the Institute of
Medicine or a counterpart in a foreign nation. More than two dozen
faculty are members of the National Academies of Science and
Engineering and the Institute of Medicine or counterpart in a
foreign nation.
University benefactors
The University of Florida has had many financial supporters, but
some stand out by the magnitude of their contributions.
Among those who have made large donations commemorated at the
university are:
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See also
References
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University of Florida, University of Florida, Gainesville,
Florida, pp. 6-7 (2006). The university's 1853 "founding date"
represents the year that the East Florida Seminary opened in Ocala.
The seminary was the oldest of the four colleges that were
consolidated by the Florida Legislature to form the university in
1905.
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- "About
UF." University of Florida.
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America's Flagship Public Universities, Cliff Street Books,
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2010 National University Rankings. Retrieved
August 20, 2009.
- Florida Senate, Florida Senate Bill 1710. Retrieved August 26,
2009. The other two research flagship universities are Florida
State University and the University of South Florida.
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Official says UF emphasis is on quality, not quantity,"
Gainesville Sun (August 25, 2009). Retrieved August 26,
2009.
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August 20, 2009.
- Office
of Institutional Planning and Research - UF Factbook,"
University of Florida. Retrieved October 30, 2009.
- Source for UF's Operating Budget)
- "Merit cuts have not hurt UF's draw."
Gainesville Sun.
- "The history of Gatorade."
Gatorade.
- University of Florida, Graduate School
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Championship Overview. Retrieved August 15, 2009.
- Governor Thomas Brown sign Higher Education bill
- "Kingsbury Papers", Smathers Library.
- "UF Early History", University of Florida.
- The present university campus incorporates much of the former
seminary and academy campuses. Epworth Hall, one of the the main building of
the East Florida Seminary,
still stands in downtown Gainesville, but is not within the
boundaries of the university's campus.
- University of Florida, UF Timeline. The name, the "University of Florida,"
has been held by three separate schools: the West Florida Seminary
was renamed the "University of Florida" by the legislature, and
held the name from 1883 to 1902; Florida Agricultural College was
renamed in 1902 and held the name until 1905; and the name of the
new University of the State of Florida was simplified to the
University of Florida in 1909. Oddly, the West Florida Seminary was
the major predecessor to the modern Florida State University in
Tallahassee.
- "Buckman Hall Quick Facts." Department of
Housing, University of Florida.
- About the Buckman Act consolidation
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University of Florida. August 9, 2006.
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Sciences-Notable Women at UF
- University of Florida website: History-1925 » First Woman
Enrolls
- "The NCAA News"
- "Florida State History", Florida State
University.
- About the post-war expansion
- UF looking to transorm itself
- 2009 Kiplinger Ranking
- Universities Chase Excellence, at Price."
New York Times.
- Tuition costs
- Law School tuition costs
- Medical School tuition costs
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University. 2007.
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- Gatorzone.com, Gators in the Olympics. Retrieved July 28,
2009. Former Gator athletes had won 39 Olympic gold, 19 silver, and
18 bronze medals through the conclusion of the 2004 Olympic Games
in Athens, Greece. Id. During the 2008 Olympic Games in
Beijing, China, Gators won another 5 Olympic gold, 4 silver and 5
bronze medals. Gatorzone.com, Gators in the Olympics, Gators in the Olympics - August 23 (corrected).
Retrieved July 28, 2009.
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II.
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