Rollins College
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Rollins College is a private, nonsectarian university located in Winter Park, Florida. Its current president is Lewis Duncan. Rollins College is situated on the south side of downtown Winter Park, along the shores of Lake Virginia. The motto "Fiat Lux", which is prominently displayed on the seal (right), is Latin for "Let there be light" and is a phrase probably best known from the opening lines in the book of Genesis.
Founded in 1885 by New England Congregationalists who sought to bring their style of liberal arts education to the Florida frontier, Rollins is the oldest recognized college in the state of Florida. Today it has more than 1,700 undergraduate students. Its 70-acre campus contains a range of amenities including the 75,000-square foot Alfond Sports Center and the Cornell Campus Center.
US News & World Report[#endnote_rank1] currently classifies Rollins as "University - Master's"; within that category it ranks Rollins as the number one school in the South and the number one best value in the South. as one of "America's best colleges" and its Graduate School Rankings have recognized its Crummer Graduate School of Business among the top 25 part-time professional MBA programs nationwide. Crummer is also consistently ranked by Forbes magazine among the best business schools for return on investment. The Hamilton Holt School evening studies division offers undergraduate and graduate courses.
Academics
-->The residential College has approximately 1,720 students and a student/faculty ratio of 12 to 1. Ninety-two percent of the faculty possess a Ph.D. or the highest degree in their field. Rollins College offers 29 majors and a variety of interdisciplinary programs that allow students to design their own courses of study. Special programs include the Honors Degree Program, the Rollins College Conference for first-year students, and a variety of international study opportunities, including Rollins programs in London; Sydney, Australia; and Madrid, Spain.
Rollins has three schools which offer a variety of degree track programs: the College of Arts and Sciences, which offers a four year liberal arts undergraduate experience, the Hamilton Holt School, which offers undergraduate and graduate degrees for non-traditional students, and the Crummer Graduate School of Business, which offers four MBA programs.
Rollins classes are typically worth 4 credits, in contrast to the traditional 3 credits per class structure of many American Universities. Arts and Sciences students need to accrue 130 credits to graduate, with approximately one third of those classes coming in the form of General Education classes covering the spectrum of the liberal arts, another third coming in the form of classes related to one's major, and the final third coming in the form of open electives.
Athletics
The school's sports teams are called the Tars (a variation of sailor). They participate in the Sunshine State Conference of the NCAA's Division II.Alumni
Famous Rollins alumni include:
- F. Duane Ackerman, Chairman & CEO, BellSouth
- Pauline Betz Addie, whom Jack Kramer (see below) has called the second best woman tennis player after Helen Wills Moody
- Donald Cram, 1987 Nobel Prize winner for chemistry
- Glenda Hood, former mayor of Orlando, Florida; Florida Secretary of State (2000-Present)
- Dana Ivey, Actor, (film The Color Purple)
- Anthony Perkins, Actor, best known for his work as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
- Jack Kramer, a candidate for the best tennis player of all time
- Fred Rogers, host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
- Buddy Ebsen, Actor, best known for his work in Breakfast at Tiffany's and The Beverly Hillbillies
- Chris Kirkpatrick, Actor and musician, best known as a member of 'N Sync
- Michael Nouri, Actor, best known for his role in Flashdance
- Scott Reiniger, Actor, best known for his work in the original Dawn of the Dead
- Ellie Cornell, Actor, films include ' and '
- Jim Bowden, Baseball general manager, was at one time known as the youngest GM in baseball history. Now with the Washington Nationals.
Students and Student Life
Rollins College offers a variety of programs for students, including Fox Day, more than 70 student organizations, the Arts at Rollins College (ARC), and more. Under the auspices of the Publications Broadcast Union (PBU), a student-operated media collective, the school produces a weekly newspaper, The Sandspur; an annual yearbook The Tomokan; an annual poetry and art periodical, Brushings; and an annual student calendar, R-Times. The school also operates the longest-running college radio station in Florida, WPRK (91.5 FM). The station's call letters stand for Winter Park.
Greek Life
Sororities
- Gamma Phi Beta 1928 (closed)
- Phi Mu 1929 (closed)
- Pi Beta Phi 1929 (closed since 1970)
- Alpha Phi 1931 (closed since 1988)
- Chi Omega 1931
- Kappa Kappa Gamma 1932
- Kappa Alpha Theta 1933 (closed since 2000)
- Kappa Delta 1994
- Alpha Omicron Pi 2002
- Non Compis Mentis (local)
- Tau Kappa Epsilon
- Alpha Tau Omega
- Chi Psi
- Phi Delta Theta
- X-Club (local)
- Kappa Alpha Order (closed)
Peace Memorial
In 2000, a New York Times editorial took notice of Rollins College's Peace Memorial[#endnote_peace1]Erected in 1938, and dedicated on Armistice Day, by college president Hamilton Holt, it consists of a German artillery shell, surrendered by Germany at the end of the First World War, mounted on a pedestal, bearing this inscription:[#endnote_peace2]
- Pause, passerby and hang your head in shame
- This Engine of Destruction, Torture and Death Symbolizes:
- The Prostitution of the Inventor
- The Avarice of the Manufacturer
- The Blood-guilt of the statesman
- The Savagery of the Soldier
- The Perverted Patriotism of the Citizen
- The Debasement of the Human Race
- That it can be Employed as an Instrument of Defense of Liberty, Justice and Right in Nowise Invalidates the Truth of the Words Here Graven.
- :—Hamilton Holt
Trivia
- Originally, the seal (above right) showed a hand holding a flaming torch, but when the image was deemed too conventional, it was changed in February 25, 1908, to the current image of a rising sun.[#endnote_trivia1]
- When Rollins College still had a football team, it beat the University of Florida Gators in 1907.
- The Rollins College football team has been undefeated since 1948.
Notes
- ↑ America's Best Colleges, US News and World Report, 2006 Edition, pp. 65, 93; also see [online] (subscription required).
- ↑ ; "A Question of Leadership," William H. Honanalso, The New York Times, January 26, 2000, p. 8; also [online]
- ↑ Image: [Holt's Peace Memorial] (as originally erected)
- ↑ Personal communication , Rollins College library
- ↑ [Rollins College, Office of Public Relations, Media kit]
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