Senate Bill sb3036

    Florida Senate - 2007        (NP)                      SR 3036

    By Senator Carlton





    23-2303A-07

  1                        Senate Resolution

  2         A resolution commending New College of Florida

  3         in Sarasota for ranking first among the

  4         nation's public liberal arts baccalaureate

  5         institutions in 2007 and producing one of the

  6         highest percentages of Fulbright Scholars of

  7         any liberal arts school in the nation.

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  9         WHEREAS, 6 years ago the Legislature designated New

10  College of Florida in Sarasota to serve a distinctive mission

11  as the free-standing public residential 4-year liberal arts

12  honors institution of this state, and

13         WHEREAS, New College of Florida has no football or

14  basketball teams to bring glory to this state as do its sister

15  institutions of higher learning, and

16         WHEREAS, New College of Florida attracts highly

17  motivated, academically talented students, and

18         WHEREAS, New College of Florida maintains a

19  student-faculty ratio of 11 to 1, offering its students close

20  interaction with a distinguished faculty, 95 percent of whom

21  are full-time teaching faculty and 97 percent of whom have

22  earned a doctorate or the terminal degree in their field, and

23         WHEREAS, to graduate from New College of Florida a

24  student must complete three month-long independent study

25  projects and a year-long senior thesis, defended before a

26  baccalaureate committee of three faculty members, and

27         WHEREAS, New College of Florida produced one of the

28  highest per capita percentages of Fulbright Scholars of any

29  liberal arts school in the nation as rated in the Chronicle of

30  Higher Education, and

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    Florida Senate - 2007        (NP)                      SR 3036
    23-2303A-07




 1         WHEREAS, New College of Florida was ranked first among

 2  the nation's public liberal arts baccalaureate institutions by

 3  U.S. News and World Report in its America's Best Colleges,

 4  2007 Edition, NOW, THEREFORE,

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

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 8         That New College of Florida is commended for bringing

 9  national academic recognition and prominence to the state's

10  institutions of higher education by being ranked as first

11  among the nation's public liberal arts baccalaureate

12  institutions by U.S. News and World Report in its America's

13  Best Colleges, 2007 Edition, and producing one of the highest

14  percentages of Fulbright Scholars of any liberal arts

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