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Rollins College

Rollins College
Rollins College seal.svg
Motto Fiat Lux
Type Private, coeducational
Established November 4, 1885
Endowment $372.5 million (2014)
President Grant Cornwell
Provost Craig McAllaster (interim)
Academic staff
200
Students 3,207
Address 1000 Holt Avenue Winter Park, FL, Winter Park, Florida, U.S.
Campus Suburban, 80 acres (32 ha)
Radio station WPRK
Colors      Royal Blue
     Gold
Athletics

NCAA Division IISunshine State

  • 22 National Championships
  • 65 Conference titles
Nickname Tars
Mascot Tommy Tar
Website www.rollins.edu
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NCAA Division IISunshine State

Rollins College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Winter Park, Florida along the shores of Lake Virginia. Rollins is a member of the SACS, NASM, ACS, FDE, AAM, AACSB International, Council for Accreditation of Counseling, and Related Educational Programs.

Rollins College is Florida's oldest post-secondary institution, and has been independent, nonsectarian, and coeducational from conception. Lucy Cross, founder of the Daytona Institute in 1880, first placed the matter of establishing a college in Florida before the Congregational Churches in 1884. In 1885, the Church put her on the committee in charge of determining the location of the first college in Florida. Cross is known as the "Mother of Rollins College." Rollins was incorporated, organized, and named in the Lyman Park building in nearby Sanford, Florida on 28 April 1885, opening for classes in Winter Park on November 4 of that year. It was established by New England Congregationalists who sought to bring their style of liberal arts education to the frontier St. John's basin. A commemorative plaque listing the names of the founders was dedicated 1 March 1954 and is displayed in historic Downtown Sanford.

Early benefactors of Rollins College included Chicago businessman Alonzo Rollins (1832-1887), for whom the college is named. Rollins made substantial donations to enable the founding of the college, and was a trustee and its first treasurer.


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