Rollins College

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Rollins College

Seal of Rollins College

Motto:	Fiat Lux (Latin: "Let there be Light")
Established:	1885
Type:	Private
Endowment:	$366,594,000[1]
President:	Lewis M. Duncan
Provost:	Dr. Roger Casey
Students:	1,759
Location:	Winter Park, Florida, USA
Campus:	suburban, 70 acres
Colors:	Royal Blue and Gold
Nickname:	Tars
Website:	www.rollins.edu

Rollins College is a liberal arts college located in Winter Park, Florida, United States, a suburb of Orlando, 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.

Founded in 1885 by New England Congregationalists who sought to bring their style of liberal arts education to what was then the Florida frontier, Rollins is the among the oldest recognized colleges in the state of Florida. Today it has more than 1,700 undergraduate students. Its seventy acre campus contains a range of amenities including a theater for performing arts, the Cornell Campus Center, and the Alfond Sports Center.

U.S. News & World Report has recognized its Crummer Graduate School of Business among the top twenty-five part-time professional MBA programs nationwide. Crummer is 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.

Rollins is a member of the Associated Colleges of the South.

1 Schools and Degree Programs
2 Special Programs
3 Athletics
4 Notable Alumni
5 Historic sites
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

[edit] Schools and Degree Programs

Rollins has three schools that offer a variety of programs: the College of Arts and Sciences, the Hamilton Holt School, and the Crummer Graduate School of Business.

[edit] College of Arts and Sciences

The College of Arts and Sciences^[1] has approximately 1,770 students and a student to faculty ratio of 10 to 1. Ninety-two percent of the faculty possess a Ph.D. or the highest degree in their field. The College offers twenty-eight undergraduate majors and a variety of interdisciplinary programs that allow students to design their own courses of study.

Like many liberal arts programs, the College of Arts & Sciences operates on the philosophy that students should receive a well-rounded education regardless of their chosen specialty. As such, completion of a Bachelor of Arts degree requires the 140 credits required for graduation to be approximately evenly derived from general education courses, major/minor courses, and elective courses.

Classes in the College of Arts and Sciences are typically worth 4 credits, in contrast to the traditional 3 credits per class structure of many American Universities. The college also requires 140 credit hours to graduate instead of the traditional 120.

[edit] Hamilton Holt School

The Hamilton Holt School^[2] offers Bachelor of Arts degrees in a variety of majors as well as several graduate degrees. Like the College of Arts & Sciences, the undergraduate program at the Hamilton Holt School requires a combination of general education courses, major/minor courses, and electives. Unlike its residential counterpart, however, the Hamilton Holt School targets adults seeking professional advancement and therefore schedules most courses in the evenings and on weekends. Students enrolled in the Hamilton Holt program pay tuition per credit hour and are not eligible for on-campus housing. From Fall 2006 to Fall 2007 the cost per tuition hour raised 28% from $220 to $309 per semester hour^[3].

Graduate programs offered through the Hamilton Holt School include:

Master of Arts in Mental Health Counseling
Master of Arts in Teaching Elementary Education (for new uncertified graduates)
Master of Education in Elementary Education (for established certified teachers)
Master of Human Resources
Master of Liberal Studies

[edit] Crummer Graduate School of Business

The Crummer Graduate School of Business^[4] offers a Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA) in four different programs:

The Early Advantage MBA Program is a 21-month full-time program designed for recent college graduates with little to no work experience.
The Corporate MBA Program (formerly Executive MBA program) is a 19-month program designed for current or potential senior executives with classes meeting on alternating Fridays and Saturdays.
The Professional MBA Program is a 32-month evening program designed for working professionals who wish to advance their careers to a management and/or executive level.
The Saturday MBA Program is a 19-month program designed for current managers, entrepreneurs, or executives with several years of work experience. Classes meet all day on Saturdays only.

The Crummer school also offers a Management and Executive Education program. This program targets organizations that wish to provide training and development to their current or future managers and executives. While courses in this program do not generally lead to a degree, they are tailored to the specific requests of the client organizations. Courses may be single-day training workshops or a long-term program of study, and the may be conducted on the college campus or another site selected by the client.

[edit] Special Programs

[edit] Honors Degree Program

The Honors Degree Program^[5] allows the top students in each entering class of the College of Arts and Sciences to complete a series of special interdisciplinary seminars, which replace approximately two-thirds of the school's general education requirements. To earn an honors degree, students must also complete a thesis in their major field during their junior and senior years.

[edit] Accelerated Management Program (AMP)

The Accelerated Management Program^[6] allows selected students to earn both a BA from the College of Arts and Sciences and an MBA from the Crummer Graduate School of Business in a total of five years. Students enrolled in this program must complete all general education and major/minor requirements prior to the conclusion of their third year. In their fourth year, students take courses from the Early Advantage MBA program, from which credits are applied to both their undergraduate and graduate transcripts. Upon completion of the fourth year, AMP students graduate from the College of Arts and Sciences and walk with their class at commencement. In the fifth year, students complete the MBA degree and graduate a second time.

[edit] Rollins College Conference (RCC)

The Rollins College Conference^[7], taken in the first semester of a student's freshman year, is required of all non-transfer students in the College of Arts and Sciences. The course serves as both an orientation course and a topic course in a student's area of interest. The professor for this course will serve as the enrolled students' academic advisor until they select a major and choose a new advisor from the corresponding department. One or two peer mentors (upperclassmen with special training) join the course and offer counseling and support to the new students. The conference also contains a fourth hour time block each week where students participate in bonding and socialization activities.

[edit] International Programs

All three schools at Rollins offer international courses^[8] to destinations such as London, Sydney, and Madrid, among others. Some programs are offered directly through Rollins, while others are offered through partnerships with other colleges and universities. Students may study abroad for a week or an entire semester.

[edit] Athletics

The school's sports teams are called the Tars. They participate in the Sunshine State Conference of the NCAA's Division II.

Sports sanctioned by the NCAA include basketball, baseball (men), softball (women), cross country, golf, lacrosse, soccer, rowing, volleyball, sailing, tennis, waterskiing (coeducational), swimming, and diving.

In 1974, the women's golf team won the AIAW national championship.

[edit] Notable Alumni

Rollins College is the alma mater to many notable persons.

Main article: List of Rollins College alumni

[edit] Historic sites

[edit] Peace memorial

In 2000, a New York Times editorial took notice of Rollins College's Peace Memorial^[2]

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:^[3]

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

The top half of the monument was stolen by vandals during World War II, but the bottom half survives and is in the stairwell leading to the second floor of the Mills Memorial building.^[4]

[edit] Notes

^ ; "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

[edit] Cornell Fine Arts Museum

The Cornell Fine Arts Museum is a loctated on the school grounds and contains works of art and objects from antiquity to the twenty first century.

[edit] Knowles Memorial Chapel

Main article: Knowles Memorial Chapel

The Knowles Memorial Chapel is an historic chapel on the Rollins campus. On December 8, 1997, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.