Florida State University

(Often referred to as Florida State or FS), Florida State University, the American public grant and sea-grant, research university. Tallahassee, Florida, United States, primary enclosure, 1,391.54 acres (5,631 km2) is located in the campus. A senior member of the State University System of Florida. Founded in 1851, continuing higher education is one of the oldest in the state of Florida.

Very High Research University of the University of teaching.th and more than 110 centers in 16 different colleges, facilities, research labs at the University of classified school programs, including professional organizations, including more than 360 programs of study developed by the Carnegie Foundation. There is a $ 1.7 billion annual budget of the university. The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and commercial-scale anti-cancer drug Taxol was born there - Florida, Florida State is home to the only National Laboratory. Florida State University, the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the Art Museum of the State of Florida and the country's largest museum / university complexes, one of the works.

University of Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) accredited. Florida State University, law, business, engineering, medicine, social policy, film, music, theater, dance, visual arts, political science, psychology, social services in many academic areas, including programs in place, and is housed in science. Four of the eight regions of Florida, Florida State University stem segments for the fiscal characters (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).

FSU was officially launched: October 17, 2014 to promote education "to collect the Florida State Torch Campaign", research to improve the overall student experience and has more than $ 1 billion fundraising goal. March 31, 2016, the Florida State University, "Rice Torch" campaign has raised $ 893,908,325.

In 2016, US News & World Report ranked the top 43 public universities in the United States took place in Florida State. Florida Governor Rick Scott and the state legislature designated a dozen universities, Florida State University system in 2013, two "top" universities in the state of Florida State University in the spring.

Widely "Florida State Seminoles" FSI 'nickname inter-university sports teams, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I and the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) will compete in the known. In their 113-year history, the Florida State University sports teams have won 20 national athletics championships and Seminole athletes have won 78 individual NCAA national championship.

History

Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819, as an element in the State of Florida in the United States, was released in Spain. Suwannee River Regional traditional Appalachicola or after the area was divided into East and West. Florida, Florida State University is the higher education system in 1823. 1838 is determined by the US Congress to provide a plan for the allocation of land to encode the source can be traced to the schools to create a constitutional system. Florida has the resources and training to be implemented in 1845 and 1823, Florida in the United States Congress, allows the 27 states. Two seminars on the opposite side of the establishment of the Suwannee River in Florida Legislature in 1851 to vote for higher education. Francis W. eppes and legislative incentive to find the Theological Institute of West Florida Tallahassee Tallahassee, Florida, city leaders are all male academy called the wolf. East Florida seminar, opened in 1853 and reopened in 1866, which oversees the infrastructure of the modern university in Gainesville, Florida, East Florida Seminary in 1861 OCALA closed institution.


William Denham, West Florida during the Civil War Seminar Cadet
Gallows Hill, a former Florida Institute was built in 1856, the former Tallahassee public execution site, the seminar was considered the male students in the state of land and buildings in the area. This is the site of the old place two years after the system is used continuously, Tallahassee Female Academy at the Bates School was founded in 1843, the building absorbs and coeducational.th Westcott, Florida, West Florida seminar was stopped near the existing FSU campus learning.

Student Soldiers

Statute.during the civil war began in 1851, the Legislative Law No. 1860-61 of formal military training school, seminar and Florida Military College. Tallahassee is the capital of the Confederacy left school registration, school, 1865 Natural Bridge War, Union forces state.cadets is probably the largest and most respected institutions such as schools, about 250 students in the fall on the beat of the Mississippi River east of the Union the power to self-direct. Mathematics and chief executive Valentin Mason Johnson, graduated from the Virginia Military Institute, to train students from a university professor. After the collapse of the Union, the Union of Forces for nearly four months in campus buildings and occupied the West Florida Seminary Cadets old educational mission. And in recognition of their important role in the Florida State University Army returned to combat in the battle streamer pictures of the words "natural bridge in 1865" with the ROTC Cadet Corps was on its flag. With permission to display the flag of the US Army ROTC at FSU is one of only four colleges in the military units.

The first state university

In February 1883 a seminar in the University of Florida, West Florida, Florida State University, which has become a part of the first. Under the new university charter of the organization's different departments of the College of Letters and seminar on "schools" was to have in or departments. However, "a separate charter and private institutions" after the seminar was the new university associations. Including the University of Florida College of Medicine and Surgery of Tallahassee, identified the three colleges will be established in the future. In the spring of 1885, the Florida Legislature title, "University of Florida" under-recognized university, but no additional funding or support function. Legislative support, he fought for the University Project. Agency never "university" in the title and later that year he took a medical college moved to Jacksonville to end the association. However, "University of Florida" Tallahassee, Florida Agricultural College in 1903, until the title is transferred to the institution of law were repealed.

However, West Florida seminar, it is still commonly referred to as the continued expansion and development. In 1884, this "teaching Licentiates" first diploma awarded in 1897, the post-secondary education and Florida's universities in 1891, the art of graduation of the first liberal arts centers, and it has four divisions than in 1901, with a modern style (University of the University of the Academy of Teachers and School of Music ) and Florida State College was reorganized.

Women's University (1905-1947)

Buckman Act of 1905, (Florida State University), white women, white male in a school in the name of the Florida university system to re-Henry Holland Buckman School (Florida Female College, Florida State College for women was changed later) and African Americans (Florida Agriculture and the School of Negroes), mechanical College. Buckman The role of women is to change the date of the act of a mixed state schools was controversial. The school early and major philanthropist, James Westcott, Jr. (1839-1887), to support the continued operation of the intent of the money. The State Board of Education in 1911, his estate Real estate is not only filed a sex drive is aimed at promoting schools. Florida Supreme Court (1905 1947 until the present) by replacing the character was intended to decide the issue vestkatnalli statement on behalf of the state of Florida. [48] ​​By 1933, women have grown up with the Florida State College for Women University in the US and the third most important in the southern part of the state of Florida's College, Phi Beta Kappa was the first college to be so honored. [50] Florida State [49] during the period until 1919, a college for women, was the source of two Florida college major.

Barracks in the state of Florida campus in State College Dale Mabry opened the field for men and women of the American military bill at the Tallahassee Branch of the University of Florida (TBUF), using the returning soldiers of World War II and then in the university system. Florida State University in 1947. He returned to the Florida Legislature recognized FSCW mixed states. In addition to the continuous FSU West Campus land and barracks airport Tallahassee Community College, where he later became used in other areas. That the post-war years, many departments and universities (1959 discontinued) Business, Journalism, Library Science, Nursing and brought significant growth and development of the university, including social security were added. Stroze Library, Tully Gymnasium and business sites of the original parts were built in this period.

Student activism

In the 1960s and 1970s, the Vietnam War, the racial integration of the Florida State University, a center for women's rights and the opposition in the field of student activism. School student activities at the University of California "in Berkeley" It's the name of Berkeley, was bought in the same reference. The school also 1970's "lines", so-called bias-come, first observed Landis Green said.

After many years of dedicated Maxwell Courtney Florida State University in 1962, becoming the first African-American graduate student admission. In 1968, Calvin Patterson, the first African-American player in the Florida State University football team. Florida now ranks proportion of African American students in all the universities in Florida.

March 4, 1969 Democratic Society, FSI 'indifferent student organization at the University of the student section, they wanted to use the facilities for meetings at the University. Stanley Marshall, President of FSI 'management, after the US decided not to allow the use of university property, and the bar has been set for a court order. As a result of the protests of the night after a stabbing incident at bayonet point, and some 58 students have mass arrests. The University Faculty Senate criticized the government response to induce an artificial crisis. Kent State University students protesting the cancellation of classes at the ends of the deaths, another major event occurs FSU students. Police armed with shotguns and carbines over 1000 students walked across the ROTC building. Landis green, all-night vigil attended by Governor Claude Kirk in discussing the politics of the students a small escort or fanfare, wicker chair and appeared unexpectedly in the last hours.


LGBTQ activism in the FSI 'the fact that in the fight against them in the school. Pride Student Union (PSU), a gay man originally Association Board LGBS William Wade added to the controversy. In 2006 the nickname "Billy Dahling" Homecoming Princess title won by the LGBTQ students. A number of student organizations founded in 1980 to represent the cause of discrimination zero in 1969 to ban sexual orientation policy adjustment