Senate Bill sb2792

    Florida Senate - 2006        (NP)                      SR 2792

    By Senator King





    8-1842-06

  1                        Senate Resolution

  2         A resolution recognizing March 29, 2006, as

  3         "FSU Day."

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  5         WHEREAS, the Tallahassee campus of Florida State

  6  University is the oldest continuous site of higher education

  7  in Florida, and was the site of the state's first chapter of

  8  Phi Beta Kappa, chartered in 1935, and

  9         WHEREAS, in 1994, the Florida State University joined

10  an elite group of the nation's top research universities,

11  being designated as a "Research I" institution by the Carnegie

12  Foundation, and

13         WHEREAS, today Florida State University offers graduate

14  and undergraduate degrees in 565 fields within 17 independent

15  colleges and schools, taught by a faculty of 1,897 members,

16  which has included 10 National Academy of Sciences members and

17  6 Nobel Laureates, and

18         WHEREAS, the Florida State University houses the

19  National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, which uses the

20  world's most powerful magnet to conduct research into the

21  frontiers of science and engineering technologies for a new

22  century, and

23         WHEREAS, the Florida State University recently

24  graduated its second Rhodes Scholar, Garrett Johnson, who was

25  one of only 32 students in the United States to receive this

26  distinguished award, and

27         WHEREAS, the fully accredited Florida State University

28  College of Medicine, the first new M.D. program to be

29  established in the United States since 1982, graduated its

30  inaugural class, and currently has 223 medical students and 5

31  Ph.D. students enrolled, and

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    Florida Senate - 2006        (NP)                      SR 2792
    8-1842-06




 1         WHEREAS, the college experience at Florida State

 2  University continues to enrich the lives of students due to

 3  the long-standing tradition of promoting racial, ethnic, and

 4  cultural diversity on its campus along with the aggressive

 5  recruitment of diverse groups of students, NOW, THEREFORE,

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 7  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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 9         That the Senate recognizes March 29, 2006, as "FSU Day"

10  in Tallahassee and congratulates Florida State University on

11  its contributions as an outstanding institution of higher

12  education in Florida.

13         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution,

14  with the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to Dr. T. K.

15  Wetherell, President of Florida State University, as a

16  tangible token of the sentiments of the Florida Senate.

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