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'Florida State University' (commonly referred to as 'Florida State' or 'FSU')
[9] 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.
[10] The university comprises 16 separate
colleges and 39 centers,
facilities,
labs and
institutes that offer more than 300 programs of study, including professional programs.
[11]
As one of Florida's primary graduate research universities,
[12] Florida State University awards over 2,000 graduate and professional
degrees each year.
[13] Florida State is one of two
flagship universities in the
State University System of Florida.
Florida State has been delegated to the first tier of research universities by the state senate, a distinction allowing FSU, along with
The University of Florida, to charge substantially more for tuition than other institutions in the State University System of Florida.
[16] 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
[17] may be traced back to 1843, two years before Florida was admitted as a state in the
United States.
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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 and law.
[20] Florida State is also 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 NCAA Champions.
History
Main articles: 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
Florida State University traces its origins to the 1823 establishment by the Territorial Legislature of Florida of two seminaries on opposite banks of the
Suwannee River.
[21][22] 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.
[23] 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.
[24]
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.
[25][26] 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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
[32] 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.
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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.
By 1947 the Florida Legislature returned the FSCW to coeducational status and renamed the Florida State College for Women 'Florida State University'.
[36] 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
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.
[9] 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'
[38] 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.
[39][40] 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.''"
[41] 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.
Pathways of Excellence
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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."
[42] 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"
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.
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.
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 of land including Heritage Grove and contains over 5 million square feet of buildings. Florida State University owns more than 1,500 acres. The campus is bordered by Stadium Drive to the west, Tennessee Street (
U.S. Route 90) to the north, Macomb Street to the west, and Gaines Street to the south. The Westcott Building is one of Florida State’s most notable buildings located on College Avenue.
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 od Psychology are located on the west end of campus on Call Street and Stadium Drive.
Being a major university campus, the Florida State University campus is also home to Heritage Grove, Florida State's premiere Greek Community, located a short walk up the St. Marks trail.
Additional to the main campus, the FSU Southwest campus encompasses another 850 acres 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.
In August, a new 104 acre 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.
Satellite campus
Main articles: Florida State University Panama City
Located just 100 miles 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.
International campus
For over 50 years Florida State University has operated a broad curriculum program in Panama City of the Republic of Panama.
[43] 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.
International programs
Florida State University operates international programs in
Florence, Italy;
London, England and
Valencia, Spain.
[44]. 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.
Collections
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.
[45] 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.
[46] The Ringling Museum collections constitute the largest university museum complex in the United States.
[47]
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.
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Academics
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.
[49]
'
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.
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Rankings
Florida State University currently ranks 52nd among national public universities by
U.S. News and World Report (USNWR),
[52] 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,
[53] 294th among world universities by
The Times Higher Education Supplement,
[54] and in the 9th tier among national public universities by The Center for Measuring University Performance.
[55] Florida State University was ranked 16th nationally in the February 2007 edition of
Kiplinger's ''Best Values in Public Colleges''.
[56] FSU is the second least expensive
flagship university in the U.S., according to
USATODAY.
[14]
Many of FSU's academic programs rank among the nation’s top twenty-five public universities, including programs in
Business,
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.
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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
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."
[60] 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.
Florida State University has a $501 million endowment.
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.
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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.
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Colleges at Florida State include:
Students
Reynolds and Jennie Murphree residence halls
Florida State University enrolled 31,058 undergraduates and 9,416 graduate and professional students in 2006. Tuition is $3,175 (in-state) and $16,306 (out-of-state) per term. The Fall 2006 freshman class had an
SAT middle 50% range of 1140 - 1280, a middle 50%
ACT range of 25 - 28, and a middle 50%
GPA range of 3.4 - 4.1.
The freshman acceptance rate for the 2006 Fall semester was 53.7%.
FSU has a 68% six-year graduation rate compared to the national average six-year graduation rate of 53%.
[63][64] FSU has an 87% freshman retention rate.
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.
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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.
Student life
Dining
Students typically dine in university-contracted campus dining facilities (provided by
Aramark). Historic Suwannee Room dining hall in the William Johnston Building located on the east side of campus was recently 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 will bring students back to the Florida State University of the fifties and is open 24 hours a day. In the student union, Chili’s, Hardee’s, Pollo Tropical, Miso Chinese, Quiznos, Einstein Bros. Bagles and of course Starbucks provide students with many dining choices. For the health conscious all residence halls have available kitchens for students to create meals. Some residence halls require students to participate in a campus meal plan.
Activities
The Oglesby Student Union is a place for students to relax and unwind. Crenshaw Lanes, which contains a twelve lane bowling alley and ten full sized billiard tables, has been an FSU tradition since 1964. Crenshaw Lanes is a popular party spot for student and university groups as well as cosmic bowling, a late night programming and open bowling.
Club Downunder brings entertainment for students from up and coming bands to hilarious comedians.
The Askew Student Life building is home to the Student Life Cinema. The Student Life Cinema is one of the nation's leading campus movie programs, featuring five to six nights a week of everything from the most recent blockbuster movies to documentaries, indies, and foreign films, in addition to restored cinema classics. Movies are selected by an all-student committee and are free to all currently enrolled FSU students with FSUCard (unless otherwise noted).
The Student Life Building also has games and a cybercafe. Coffee and a variety of other snacks and beverages are available. The cybercafe hosts Super Smash Bros. tournaments and other gaming tournaments. There are computers, Gamecube, Playstation, and board games for students to use.
A new 104 acre RecSports Plex is 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 Rez, Florida States Reservation is located on Flastacowo Road. This student lakeside retreat on Lake Bradford has canoe and kayak rentals as well as a rock climbing wall and a zipline course. It also allows space for students to picnic, play volleyball and relax outdoors.
Media
FSU radio and television logo
The Tallahassee, Florida 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.
[66] 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,
[67] and three
radio stations,
WFSU-FM,
WFSQ-FM and
WFSW-FM.
[68]
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.
[69] WVFS broadcasts experimental music as an alternative to regular radio.
Faculty and research
Main articles: 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.
[70] Florida State was home to the first
ETA10-G/8 supercomputer[71] 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.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
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.
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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.
Athletics
FSU athletic symbol
Florida State University is known for its competitive athletics for both mens and womens 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, it is a tradition to light the torch (at the end of the spear) 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. The track has undergone a complete revamp and in 2003 a brand new track, complete with a new surface, wider lanes, faster turns and a larger infield area for hosting field events was unveiled. Following their championship on 2007, a new three building complex broke ground on the corner of Spirit Way and Chieftan Way in the southern end of the track.
H. Donald Loucks courts at the Speicher Tennis Center is the home for FSU Tennis. 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. By presidential directive, the facility bears the name the "Scott Speicher Tennis Center."
The Seminole Soccer Complex is home for women’s soccer 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 plays at the Seminole Softball Complex and the team takes the field that holds the name of the winningest coach in softball history, Dr. JoAnne Graf.
Intercollegiate
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.
Intramural
Florida State also has very large Intramural Sports program.
[75] Sports clubs range from equestrian to water sailing which compete against other Intercollegiate club teams around the country. Intramural sports include flag football, basketball, wiffleball, dodgeball and many more. Intramural sports are friendly competition between Seminoles.
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.
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.
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Rivalries in some other sports also exist, including the
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in baseball and the
Duke University Blue Devils in basketball.
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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.
Seminole Football and Bobby Bowden
Florida State Football Practice Fields
Under head coach
Bobby Bowden, currently in his 31st 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.
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 366 career wins, followed by Penn State's
Joe Paterno with 363. 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, 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"
In 1962, the FSU football team captains returned to Tallahassee with a piece of the turf from Sanford Stadium after whipping 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.
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.
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Traditions
1902 Florida State College football team
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.
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.
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 believed to be a version of another song chanted first during the 1960s.
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It is traditional for students to be dunked in the Westcott fountain on special occasions
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.
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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.
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.
These include:
Notable alumni
Main articles: 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.
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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."
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Notable athletic alumni
Main articles: Florida State University Seminoles#Notable 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.
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Notes and references
1. [1] ''State Library and Archives of Florida - The Florida Memory Project Timeline (see 1851)'' Retrieved on 4-28-2007
2. [2] ''2006 NACUBO Endowment Study, © 2007 National Association of College and University Business Officers'' Retrieved on 5-11-2007.
3. [3] ''Florida State University Office of Institutional Research, Enrollment and Faculty - FSU student/faculty statistics for fall 2006'' Retrieved on 5-11-2007.
4. [4] ''Florida State University Office of Institutional Research, Percentage Full-Time Employees by EEO Category
Fall 1995 through Fall 2006'' Retrieved on 5-12-2007.
5. [5] ''Florida State University Office of Institutional Research, Enrollment and Faculty - FSU student/faculty statistics for fall 2006'' Retrieved on 5-11-2007.
6. [6] ''Florida State University Office of Institutional Research, Enrollment and Faculty - FSU student/faculty statistics for fall 2006'' Retrieved on 5-11-2007.
7. [7] ''Florida State University Office of Institutional Research, Enrollment and Faculty - FSU student/faculty statistics for fall 2006'' Retrieved on 5-11-2007.
8. Florida State University Summary of University Properties''
9. FSU 2006-2007 General Bulletin Undergraduate Edition
10. The Carnegie Foundation: Classifications
11. Florida State University - Colleges, Schools, Departments, Institutes, and Administrative Units, Centers, Facilities, Labs & Institutes
12. FSU Pathways of Excellence Ph.D. Programs
13. Crist signs differential tuition bill
14. 2006 College Tuition and Fees Survey
15. "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."
Convocation Address Robert M. Berdahl, Chancellor of UC Berkeley
16. Senate Bill 1710
17. "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:
18. FSU 2006-2007 General Bulletin Undergraduate Edition
19. Florida State University Sesquicentennial Celebration
20. Florida State University - College Highlights and Selected National Rankings
21. History of Florida State University
22. "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
23. "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''
24. Historic Gainesville, A Tour Guide to the Past Ben Pickard, ed.
25. "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
26. Florida State University Libraries - John L. DeMilly Papers 1877-1879, Historical Note
27. "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.
28. "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.
29. "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.
30. "West Florida Seminary cadets taking a break."
State Library and Archives of Florida - Florida Photographic Collection, West Florida Seminary Cadets, published circa 187-.
31. 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''
32. State Library and Archives of Florida - Florida Photographic Collection, Westcott Building at the Florida State College for Women, published 193-.
33. Florida State University Libraries Special Collections Department, Inventory of the Florida State College for Women Surveys and Reports (MSS2003003), Biographical/Historical Notes. Amy McDonald.
34. 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. Erin VanClay
35. "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
36. "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)
37. FSU 2006-2007 General Bulletin Undergraduate Edition
38. Florida State University, News Archive, Events'
39. "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
40. "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
41.
42. Florida State University - Pathways of Excellence
43. Florida State University - Panama City, Republic of Panama campus
44. Welcome to International Programs
45. Title XLVIII, 1004.45(2)(a) 2006 Florida Statutes
46. Peter Paul Rubens, Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries
47. John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
48. Museum of Fine Arts at Florida State University
49. FSU 2006-2007 General Bulletin Undergraduate Edition - Limited Access Programs
50. Young Scholars Get Ahead at FSU Camp
51. Young Scholars Program @ FSU'
52. Americas Best Colleges
53. Academic Ranking of World Universities 2006
54.
55. The Top American Research Universities: 2006 Annual Report
56. Best Values in Public Colleges
57. 2006 College Tuition and Fees Survey
58. [8] ''Florida State University - College Highlights and Selected National Rankings'' Retrieved on 5-01-2007.
59. [9] ''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.
60. FSU Trustees Procedures
61. Headcount Summaries by School/College, Fall Semesters Florida State University - Office of Institutional Research
62.
63. Report Shocks Florida Schools
64. Efforts to improve graduation rates showing progress
65. Florida State University - Office of Greek Life
66. Corporate media on campus? Florida State University paper sold to Gannett Co. - The Brown Daily Herald, 19 September 2006
67. Florida State University - Television Stations WFSU and WFSG ''
68. Florida State University - Radio Stations WFSU-FM, WFSQ-FM and WFSW-FM
69. Florida State University - Radio Station WVFS-FM
70. Faculty Honors and Awards
71. A History of Supercomputing at Florida State University Jeff Bauer
72. Hypolithic Algae at Johnson Canyon-Death Valley Sample Collection of March 5-7, 1997
73. E. Imre Friedmann, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor and Director, Polar Desert Research Center
74. National High Magnetic Field Laboratory - Media Center Fact Sheets - Records
75. Florida State University, Campus Recreation - Sport Clubs
76. ACC Rivalries''
77. ACC Rivalries''
78. Profile: Bobby Bowden
79. 3peatTrojans's SportingBlog: The Great College Football Debates: Coaches pt.3
80. Florida State University, Student Profiles - Garrett Johnson
81. Track & Field: FSU Wins Back-to-Back National Titles
82. State Library and Archives of Florida - Florida Photographic Collection, West Florida Seminary Football Team at College Hall, published 1899
83. The Argo of the Seminary West of the Suwanee, Tallahassee, FL (circa 1900), page 28 (image 33)''
84. Florida State University Sesquicentennial Celebration 1851-2001, History 1851-1905 Student Life
85. Florida State University, University Relations, FSU Seminole Traditions - War Chant 
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