Florida State announces plan to continue rise in national rankings

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<p>This is the best definition I have ever found - written by a historian who is the former president of the [Association</a> of American Universities](<a href=“https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:KZtbhXfxlF4J:https://www.aau.edu/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx%3Fid%3D11262+&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShmBTA_sUKI-ia2pghp2tWyvymNt0_hC9DVhzShpa7TgR6ja1tV_CtHV37RqYC1TbeCyCMeYvRNlOnMtATEK8IQeldTc48XLFLxcA3p7-N7thedyKWsD4uLKjL59h_p5EnX9-0z&sig=AHIEtbSvo4fwkXBQ2V7TvLfrpi1xoeIY1A]Association”>https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:KZtbhXfxlF4J:https://www.aau.edu/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx%3Fid%3D11262+&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShmBTA_sUKI-ia2pghp2tWyvymNt0_hC9DVhzShpa7TgR6ja1tV_CtHV37RqYC1TbeCyCMeYvRNlOnMtATEK8IQeldTc48XLFLxcA3p7-N7thedyKWsD4uLKjL59h_p5EnX9-0z&sig=AHIEtbSvo4fwkXBQ2V7TvLfrpi1xoeIY1A) Robert M. Berdahl, PhD.

What do we mean by the term “flagship” universities? The term applies, in all the cases I can think of, to the fully mature public universities serving most of states. In most cases, these institutions were the first public universities to be established in their states. Many of what we now call the flagship campuses were established in the extraordinary period of university building that took place in the United States in the roughly three decades from the mid-1850s to the mid-1880s. Many came into being after the Morrill Act of 1863 provided the federal grants of land to the states to establish public universities. Some states built two institutions, a land-grant college focused on agriculture and the “mechanical arts” as well as general education, and another more directed at classical education and the other professions. For example, Michigan, Indiana, Iowa, Washington, and Texas, among others, built separate institutions, while Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio, and California combined the land-grant and liberal arts function on a single campus. These institutions formed the core of the public systems of higher education in their respective states. State teachers colleges, later evolving into regional state colleges or universities, formed the rest of the higher education institutions in most states.</p>

<p>But it was always clear that the one or two institutions that were the original land-grant or public universities in the states were the flagships–the leaders–even though they may not have been referred to as such. They became the centers for research and graduate education and they developed an array of professional schools that added to their size, scope, and pre-eminence.

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<p>Reference: <a href=“http://www.webcitation.org/5wJUI60xL[/url]”>http://www.webcitation.org/5wJUI60xL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>It is clear that Florida has two flagship universities - FSU and UF.</p>