The member of the legislature who wrote the act, Henry Holland Buckman, later became the namesake of Buckman Hall, one of the university's oldest buildings. In 1905, the Florida Legislature passed the Buckman Act, which consolidated the existing publicly supported higher education institutions of the state. 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. Florida Agricultural College became the state's first land-grant college under the Morrill Act. The second major precursor to the University of Florida was the Florida Agricultural College, established at Lake City by Jordan Probst in 1884. In 1866, Roper offered his land and school to the State of Florida in exchange for the relocation of the East Florida Seminary to Gainesville. James Henry Roper, an educator from North Carolina and a state senator from Alachua County, had opened a school in Gainesville, the Gainesville Academy, in 1858. The East Florida Seminary was the first state-supported institution of higher learning in Florida.
Gilbert Kingsbury was the first person to take advantage of the legislation, and established the East Florida Seminary, which operated until the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. On January 6, 1853, Governor Thomas Brown signed a bill that provided public support for higher education in the state of Florida. The University of Florida traces its origins to 1853, when the East Florida Seminary, the oldest of the University of Florida's four predecessor institutions, was founded in Ocala, Florida. HistoryĬentury Tower, begun in 1953, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of university and as a tribute to the alumni who perished in both World War I and World War II. In their 108-year history, the university's varsity sports teams have won thirty-three national team championships, twenty-eight of which are NCAA titles, and Gator athletes have won 267 individual national championships. The University of Florida's intercollegiate sports teams, commonly known by their "Florida Gators" nickname, compete in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I and the Southeastern Conference (SEC).
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It offers multiple graduate professional programs-including business administration, engineering, law, dentistry, medicine, and veterinary medicine-on one contiguous campus, and administers 123 master's degree programs and seventy-six doctoral degree programs in eighty-seven schools and departments. The University of Florida is home to sixteen academic colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes. It is the third largest Florida university by student population, and is the eighth largest single-campus university in the United States with 49,913 students enrolled for the fall 2012 semester. Florida Governor Rick Scott and the state Legislature designated the University of Florida as one of two "preeminent" state universities in the spring of 2013. The university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). The University is classified as a Research University with Very High Research by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University of Florida is an elected member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), the association of preeminent North American research universities. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida and traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906. News & World Report ranked Florida as the fourteenth best public university in the United States. Howard and Matthew Greene recognized Florida as a Public Ivy in 2001, a publicly funded university considered as providing a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivies.
Inactive chapters are shown in italic.The University of Florida (commonly referred to as Florida or UF) is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a 2,000-acre (8.1 km) campus in North Central Florida. This list includes chapters that have gone Inactive since the fraternity was founded in 1839. The following is a list of Beta Theta Pi chapters.
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