| Florida Southern College | |
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| Motto | Lux Sapientia Lex (Latin: "Light, Wisdom, Law") |
| Established | 1883 |
| Religious affiliation | United Methodist Church |
| Endowment | US $51 million[1] |
| President | Anne B. Kerr |
| Academic staff | 109 [2] |
| Students | 2,426 |
| Undergraduates | 2,278 |
| Postgraduates | 148 |
| Location | Lakeland, Florida, United States |
| Campus | 100 acres (0.4 km²) |
| Colors | Scarlet and White |
| Nickname | Moccasins |
| Mascot | Mocsie |
| Website | http://www.flsouthern.edu |
Florida Southern College (commonly referred to as Florida Southern, Southern or FSC) is a private college located in Lakeland, Florida, United States. It was selected by U.S. News & World Report as one of the top ten Southern Comprehensive Colleges-Bachelors, and by The Princeton Review as a Best Southeastern College, a Best Value College, and included in the Best 366 Colleges: 2008. Florida Southern is the home of the world’s largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture.
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The college was founded in Orlando in 1856, and moved to Leesburg in 1885 (some debate this to be the true establishment) under the sponsorship of the United Methodist Church and was open to both male and female students. It moved to Sutherland (now Palm Harbor) in 1901 and changed its name to Southern College. Due to fires in the early 1920s it was temporarily relocated to Clearwater Beach and then moved to Lakeland in 1922. In 1935 it was renamed Florida Southern College by the trustees.
The present campus comprises some 64 buildings on 100 acres (405,000 m²) of land and is the home of the largest collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world.[3] The campus itself is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district, due to the historic significance of its buildings. In 2011, it was rated the most beautiful campus in America by Princeton Review.
The collection of Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture at Florida Southern College is called Child Of The Sun. This includes:[3]
Residence Halls
The music department offers Bachelor of Arts degree, a Bachelor of Music degree in performance, A Bachelor of Music Education degree, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Music management. The department maintains several successful large ensembles, including the wind ensemble, symphony band, jazz ensemble, symphony orchestra, and several choral groups. Each large ensemble is featured in concert at least once every semester on the Festival of Fine Arts. Smaller chamber ensembles include the flute choir, clarinet choir, saxophone choir, horn choir, trumpet choir, trombone choir, tuba choir, cello choir, viola choir, percussion ensemble, and vocal chamber ensemble. The opera theater usually produces one fully staged opera or opera gala every academic year. The music faculty are highly accomplished performers and teachers, and over the years have been joined by internationally acclaimed performers Beverly Wolff and Robert MacDonald.
The theatre department generally puts on 4 mainstage shows a year in the Buckner Theater, with the 3rd show usually a musical. As of the 2010-2011 academic year, the theatre dept consisted of two full-time professors and one adjunct professor.
The school's Festival of Fine Arts is the longest running in Polk County, and has hosted such world-renowned artists as Kathleen Battle, André Watts, I Musici di Roma, and The Munich Symphony Orchestra.
Florida Southern's athletic teams are known as the Moccasins, often shortened to Mocs. The school adopted the nickname in 1926 (prior to then the teams were known as the Southerners). The official colors are scarlet and white, though athletes sport red, white, and blue uniforms. Florida Southern is a NCAA Division II institution, the college's athletic teams participate in the Sunshine State Conference (SSC), except for Men's Lacrosse, who compete in the Deep South Conference. Florida Southern has won 27 NCAA Division II championships in Men's Golf (12), Baseball (9), Women's Golf (4), Men's Basketball (1), and Softball (1). Florida Southern's Mens Cross Country team has won 14 straight Sunshine State Conference Titles. Florida Southern's most recent championship came in May 2010 when the men's golf team won their 12th NCAA national title. The college competes in 20 sports, 9 for men, 10 for women, and 1 co-ed sport.
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The men's golf program has won 12 NCAA National Championships and produced six individual national champions. Among the more successful Moccasin alumni are PGA Tour members Rocco Mediate, Lee Janzen and Jeff Klauk. The women's team has won four championships of their own with three golfers each winning two NCAA individual national championships.
The men's basketball program has experienced significant success since the inception of the SSC in 1975. The Mocs won the SSC regular season 19 times and have been crowned SSC tournament champions 19 times. FSC won back-to-back regular and postseason titles in 2008 and 2009 and has more conference wins than any other SSC team (310), along with owning the best winning percentage of any current member (.711). FSC men's basektball won the NCAA Division II national title in 1981 with a 73-68 win over Mount St. Mary's.[4]
The baseball program has also experienced its own success on the national stage. The Mocs have won 17 SSC baseball championships and nine national championships (1971, 1972, 1975, 1978, 1981, 1985, 1988, 1995, and 2005). The Moccasins finished the 2009 season with 41 wins and only 16 losses and a runner-up finish at the NCAA South Regional Tournament. In addition to NCAA play, the baseball team traditionally plays an exhibition game against the Detroit Tigers, who conduct their Spring Training in Lakeland.
Florida Southern College has a student population of 2,426, of which 2,278 are undergraduate students.[5] The colleges offers a number student life options in the form of fraternities, soroities, student organizations and honor societies.
Fraternities
Sororities
The college has over 70 student organizations on campus, including: Sigma Tau Delta (English honors society), Beta Beta Beta (Biology Fraternity), Circle K International (Service Organization, College branch of Kiwanis), Delta Omicron (Chapter Alpha Phi, International Professional Music Fraternity), Southern Heat (Dance Team), Interlachen (Yearbook), The Southern (Newspaper), Omicron Delta Kappa (Leadership Fraternity), Psi Chi (Psychology Fraternity), Sigma Rho Epsilon (Religious Community Service Fraternity), Theta Chi Beta (Gimel Chapter, Religion Honorary), Phi Alpha Delta (Law Fraternity, International), and Pi Sigma Alpha (Political Science Honorary) FSC also has a number of Campus Ministries such as: Beyond, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Newman Club (former Catholic campus ministry), Sandwich Ministry (Ministry to the homeless community), Upper Room Ministries, and Wesley Fellowship (United Methodist Campus Ministry).[6]
Notable alumni include professional golfers Lee Janzen and Rocco Mediate, and two bishops of the United Methodist Church.
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