University of Florida History

Florida State University (commonly referred to Florida or UF) is a public land grant, sea grant, and the granting of a US research university area is located on the campus of 2000 acres (8.1 km2) in Gainesville, Florida. A senior member of the Florida State University system and the historical traces its origins to 1853, and worked continuously in the current Gainesville campus since September 1906.

The University of Florida is one of the sixty-two institutions elected members of the Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of prominent research universities in North America, and a member of the university Addis Ababa University, the only one that is located in the state of Florida. The University is classified as a research university with very high research by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. After the development of performance standards through the state legislature of Florida in 2013, and the Council of Florida conservatives appointed to the University of Florida and one of the two "leading university" among a dozen universities, Florida State University system. In 2015, US News & World Report ranked Florida as the fourteenth best public universities in the United States.

The university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). This is the third-largest Florida State University by the number of students, the largest university in one campus in the United States eighth with 49,913 students enrolled for the fall 2012 semester. The University of Florida is home to sixteen academic colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes. It offers Graduate multiple programs, including professional business administration, engineering, law, dentistry, medicine, and medicine at the Veterinary campus adjacent one medicine, and operates 123 master's programs and seventy-six doctoral degree programs in eighty-seven schools and departments.

University sports teams between colleges in the state of Florida, known by the nickname "Florida, University of Florida," and compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) first section and Southeastern Conference (SEC). In their history 108 years, varsity sports teams have won the League thirty-five national team championships, including thirty NCAA titles, athletes alligator has won the 275 individual national championships.

University of Florida, dating back to its inception in 1853, when the Florida East school, the oldest university predecessor institutions, four in Florida, was founded in Ocala, Florida.

On January 6, 1853, the governor of Thomas Brown signed the bill that gave public support for higher education in the state of Florida. It was Gilbert Kingspere the first person to benefit from the legislation, was created Florida East school, which operated until the outbreak of the civil war in 1861. Florida Middle School organization supported by the first state of higher education in the state of Florida.

James Henry Roper, an educator from North Carolina and the State Senator from Shawa province, opened a school in Gainesville, and academic Gainesville, in 1858. In 1866, offered Roper home and school to Florida in exchange for the transfer of the Florida East school to Gainesville.

The main precursor second to the University of Florida College of Agriculture, the state of Florida, established in Lake City, Jordan Probst in 1884. Florida Agricultural College became the first college to grant land to the State under the Morrill Act. In 1903, the Florida Legislature, and the desire to expand the horizons of the school and the curriculum beyond the agricultural and engineering assets, changing the name to the Florida Agricultural College, "University of Florida", a name that in the school where he was held for two years only.

In 1905, the Florida Legislature passed Buckman Act, which strengthened the existing educational institutions, publicly supported the Supreme State. Legislative Council member who wrote the act, Henry Holland Buckman, became later namesake of Buckman Hall, one of the oldest university buildings. Organized Buckman Act Florida State University system, and the creation of the Council of Florida to control to control the system. Cancellation institutions supported by the state six pre-existing Higher Education, and the unification of assets and academic programs, four of them new, "Florida State University to form the law." His predecessor institutions, four unified to form built the new university in the University of Florida in Lake City (formerly Florida College of Agriculture) in Lake City, Florida East school in Gainesville, Normal and Industrial St. Petersburg School in St. Petersburg, and the South Florida Military College at Bartow.

Buckman colleges and law schools also promoted to the three institutions classified by race and the University of Florida white men between the sexes, and a female Florida College of white women, and school normal state for colored students of African-American men and women.

Gainesville City, which have a Mayor William Robin Thomas led a campaign to be the headquarters for the new university. On July 6, 1905, the Board chose to monitor the new Gainesville campus. Andrew Sledd, president of the University of pre-existing state of Florida in Lake City was chosen to be the first president of the new University of Florida. The 1905-1906 school year, a transition year. A new University of Florida was created from a legal standpoint, but operates on the campus of the old University of Florida in Lake City until the completion of the first buildings on the new campus in Gainesville. Designed by architect William A.. Edwards first official campus buildings in the collective Gothic style. Classes began at the new Gainesville campus on September 26, 1906, which included 102 students.

In 1909, the school has been to simplify the name officially from the "University of Florida" to "University of Florida."

It has been chosen as the mascot alligator Incidentally school in 1911, after a local vendor is selling school slogans with the alligator logo imprinted on them. School colors, orange, blue, believed to be derived from the colors blue and white school from the College of Agriculture, the state of Florida in Lake City and orange colors and black of the Florida East school in Gainesville.

In 1909, he was appointed Albert Murphree second President of the University, and organized several university faculties, and increase enrollment from less than 200 to more than 2000, and he was instrumental in the establishment of community leadership Florida Blue Key. Murphree is the only University of Florida president honored with a statue on campus.

In 1924, Florida was commissioned legislature that women of "coming of age" (at least twenty-one years old) who have completed sixty semester hours of "prestigious educational institution" would be allowed to register during the semesters at the University of Florida in programs that were not available in State College Florida women. Prior to this, only a mixed summer, to accommodate teachers who want to continue their education during the summer holiday was not. Lacey Goodbread Black Lake City became the first woman to enroll at the University of Florida, in the College of Agriculture in 1925.

John J. become. Tigert third president of the university in 1928. disgusted payments table under efforts by universities for athletes, which Tigert established a scholarship program athlete grant in aid in the early 1930s, which was the genesis of the school sports modern grants that are currently used by the Society plan collective and national sports.

Beginning in 1946, there was a big interest rate increase among the applicants of males who wish to attend the University of Florida, and returned most of them veterans of the Second World War who can college attendance under the GI Bill of rights (readjustment of military and law). It is unable to accommodate this growing demand immediately, opening the Florida Council of the control of the Tallahassee Branch of the University of Florida on the campus of the College of Florida women in Tallahassee. By the end of the academic year 1946-1947, 954 men enrolled in the Tallahassee Branch. The next chapter, the Florida Legislature is back in the College of Florida women's mixed status and renamed it the University of Florida. This sequence of events also opened each of the colleges that comprise the University of Florida students. And it allows students to register African Americans beginning in 1958. Shands Hospital opened for the first time in 1958 in conjunction with the University of Florida College of Medicine to join the already established Faculty of Pharmacy. Rapid expansion of the campus began in the 1950s and continues to this day.

The University of Florida is one of the two governmental Florida universities, along with the University of Florida, could be considered a "prominent University" of the Florida Senate draft 1076 law, enacted by the Legislative Council, the state of Florida and signed by the governor in 2013. As a result of the result of this legislation, receive prominent universities now additional funding, which aims to improve the academic reputation of a national higher education in the state of Florida.

In 1985, he was invited Florida State University to become a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), which is composed of sixty-two prominent academic organization of public and private research in the United States and Canada universities. Florida is one of the universities of seventeen public, granting of land that belong to the University of Addis Ababa. In 2009, President Bernie machine and the University of Florida Board of Trustees announced a major political transition of the university. It supported the Board of Trustees of the decline in the number of university and transformation of academic resources, financial and otherwise to graduate education and research in the future.