The University of Tampa ( UT ) is a private joint education university in Downtown Tampa, Florida, United States. It is accredited by the Association of Colleges and South Schools. UT offers over 200 courses, including 14 masters degrees and majors, minors, pre-professional programs, and certificates.
Plant Hall, UT's main building, was once the home of the Tampa Bay Hotel, a resort built by Henry B. Plant in 1891, and the Moorish tower on its special structure has long been seen as an "iconic symbol" of Tampa.
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Frederic H. Spaulding, former head of Hillsborough High School in Tampa, founded the private Junior Junior School in 1931 to serve as one of the first higher education institutions in the Tampa Bay area. In 1933, the school moved to its current location, the deceased Tampa Bay Hotel. The previous resort was opened in 1891 by Florida railwayman Henry B. Plant but was closed due to a significant drop in tourism with the onset of the Great Depression. The main hotel building covers about 6 hectares of land and once held more than 500 guest rooms. By moving to a much larger facility, Spaulding decided to expand the scope of the school. Tampa Junior College became the University of Tampa, and the main hotel building was renamed Plant Hall.
In 1941, the city of Tampa signed a lease of 99 years in a former hotel with a school for a dollar a year. Rent does not include the southeast wing of the former hotel to allow housing from the Henry B. Plant Museum.
The University grew slowly over the next few decades, becoming a respected learning institution that mostly caters to students from the greater Tampa Bay area. In 1951, the university received full accreditation by the Association of Colleges and Schools of the South (SACS).
While the University of Tampa is academically successful, it faces intermittent financial difficulties for most of its history. These problems first surfaced in the mid-1930s, when the Great Depression lowered the enrollment and strain the ability of new schools to educate students while maintaining a large Plant Hall and gradually converting hotel rooms into classrooms and offices. Another crisis several decades later forced the 1974 decision to double the successful University of Spartan University soccer program because the school was no longer able to afford the cost to compete in the NCAA I-A Division football.
In 1986, local businessman Bruce Samson quit the Tampa mayor's campaign to become president of UT, a position offered due in part to his background in banking and finance. Samson succeeded in eliminating an annual budget deficit of $ 1.4 million through a "stubborn" decision, including withdrawing from all sports of the NCAA Division I. However, after he left in 1991 to return to private business, the school again fell into trouble finance. The decrease in enrollment leads to the return of serious budget deficits, leading to serious cuts to faculty positions and academic programs. UT faces an uncertain future, and some local leaders suggest that the public University of South Florida cross-town must take over the operation of the old private school.
In 1995, the Board of Trustees chose Ronald L. Vaughn, then the dean of UT College of Business, as the new president of the school. The effort was originally intended to bring the campus with new dorms and major renovations to business schools. Dr. Vaughn also launched the "Take the Upper UT" campaign with the goal of collecting $ 70 million in 10 years and restoring the University's blessing. The campaign generated $ 83 million, and observers then praised this highly successful effort by saving and modernizing the university. Two important contributions came from the John H. Sykes family in Tampa - a $ 10 million prize in 1997 and another $ 28 million in 2000, regarded as the greatest gift to Florida university at the time.
Additional funds are used to purchase new land and to implement faster development programs; over $ 575 million in development has been completed on campus since 1998. The university also employs additional faculty, allowing schools to expand student populations while maintaining a 17: 1 student-faculty ratio. For his efforts to save the university and improve enrollment, Vaughn has a salary entered in the top 10 private institutions.
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Academics
UT offers 200 fields of study for undergraduate and postgraduate students. Classroom maintains a 17-student-faculty ratio: 1. UT does not hire a teaching assistant.
Some of UT's most popular majors include international business, biology, marketing, marine science, criminology, finance, communications, psychology, sports management, entrepreneurship and nursing. UT recently launched a new department in cybersecurity.
The university is organized into four colleges: the College of Arts and Letters; College of Social Sciences, Mathematics and Education; Faculty of Natural Sciences and Health; and Sykes College of Business, are accredited at undergraduate and postgraduate levels by the Association for Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).
The University of Tampa has an Honors Program, which "enables students to go beyond the classroom and work casual to learn one on one with faculty through enrichment tutorials, Honors Abroad, internships, research and class-to-community reach."
UT also offers a number of international study options abroad led by UT professors. The University is an associate member of the European Council of International Schools (ECIS).
The Lowth Entrepreneurship Center at The University of Tampa has been awarded the Entrepreneurship and Pedagogical Entrepreneurship Innovation Award by the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC).
ROTC
For UT undergraduate students wishing to be assigned as officers in the US Army after graduation, the campus is home to the Army ROTC unit. For students who wish to be assigned as officers in the US Navy, US Marine Corps and US Air Force after graduation, cross-campus agreements in place for UT students to affiliate with either the Naval ROTC unit or the Air Force ROTC Detachment 158 ​​â € <â € < at the University of South Florida.
Campus
The UT campus has 60 buildings on a beautiful 110 hectares. Plant Hall - National Historic Landmark built in 1891 by Henry B. Plant - is a leading example of the Moorish Revival architecture in the southeastern United States and the center point of downtown Tampa. In addition to functioning as a prime location of classrooms and faculty and administrative offices, this building is also home to the Henry B. Plant Museum. The campus also includes the former McKay Auditorium, built in 1920 and renovated in the late 1990s to become the Sykes College of Business. In the past 16 years, UT has invested about $ 575 million in new dormitories, classrooms, laboratories and other facilities.
The UT campus is relatively small for schools with 8,913 students. On the east side is the Hillsborough River, and Kennedy Boulevard is in the south. Recent expansion has seen campus yards moving north and eastward after purchasing parts of the Tampa Preparation School and vacant lot across the east train tracks.
Although the university is located in a major metropolitan area, the palm trees, majestic oak trees, rose bushes and azaleas can be found in abundance on campus. The UT grounds include Plant Park, a palm-fringed riverbank area in front of the main entrance of the Main Building. It features a cannon from the original port harbor of Tampa and the statue of the Fire Sticks. It is also home to the oak tree where Hernando de Soto supposedly met with the heads of native American tribes when first landed in what is now Tampa. The campus also includes the former Florida State Fair, where the legend has it Babe Ruth achieved a 630 feet (190 m) home run, the longest in his career.
UT is also one of several schools with an anti gravity monument from Roger Babson's Gravity Research Foundation. The "Anti-Gravity Rock", as it is called, is located at the crossroads between the College of Business parking lot and the Macdonald-Kelce Library, at the very end of the Wing of the Plant Hall. The location of the stone was somewhat ironic, but precise, given that Babson's scientific view is shared by few if any scientists.
Residence hall
About 62% of full time UT students live on the university's main campus. All but 3 of the 12 in-campus dormitories have been built since 1998.
Straz Hall and Palm Apartments offer an apartment style living, with each student having a private room but sharing a bathroom, kitchen and common areas with three others. Five dorms, Smiley Hall, McKay Hall, Boathouse, Austin Hall and Vaughn Center, offer traditional dormitory arrangements, with two or three students in connected suites that share a bathroom and open living room. The three rooms, Brevard Hall, Morsani Hall and Jenkins Hall, offer hybrid packages with students sharing common areas but without a kitchen. Finally, Urso Hall provides students with what is essentially a studio apartment, a private suite consisting of beds, cabinets, kitchens and rest rooms. Each residence hall also offers a small number of single private rooms.
The Barrymore Hotel, located about 1 mile (1.6 km) from campus, also houses some students. Two students usually stay in each room, which is equipped with two double beds, bathroom and closet space. UT wireless internet is available, along with cable television. The shuttle bus provides transportation to/from the campus, or the student can walk 15 minutes.
Facilities
UT has about 50 computer labs and wireless Internet access across campus. The Sykes College of Business, in addition to having a computer lab, has a capital market laboratory, equipped with terminals and plasma TV screens to teach the financial majors of the stock market. The College of Natural and Health Sciences maintains an isolated marine science research center in Tampa Bay with extensive equipment including research vessels used by students and faculty to study the Tampa Bay ecosystem and the Gulf of Mexico.
The Macdonald-Kelce Library houses over 275,000 books and 65,181 magazines, as well as online research databases, computer labs, study rooms and special collections, including Florida military material, old and rare books, and local history and UT archives. The library also offers bibliographic references and instructions, inter-library loans and backup materials.
For leisure students there is a new, second floor, 60,000 square foot Recreation Center featuring six exercise rooms, including indoor cycling, functional training and yoga. There is also aquatic center on campus with an Olympic-size swimming pool and an indoor pool for scuba classes, all open to students at various times. UT offers sand-volleyball courts, outdoor basketball courts, intramural gyms complete with indoor courts, intramural softball courts, tennis courts, rope courses, soccer fields, running tracks, intramural baseball fields, multi-purpose intramural terrain and a well-equipped workout center.
The UT theater section guides students who produce and play plays at Kennedy Boulevard in the historic Falk Theater. Falk also hosts major academic meetings, student productions and concerts. In 2003 the Falk Theater was featured as a setting in the movie The Punisher.
The non-denominational Sykes Chapel and the Center for Faith and Values ​​include the main hall, meeting and meditation hall consisting of 250 seats, pipe organ by Dobson Pipe Organ Builders, plaza and 60-bells music/fountain sculpture.
The Bob Martinez Athletics Center received substantial improvements during the recent upgrades throughout the university.
Student
UT has about 8,931 students from 50 US states and 140 countries. A large number of students come from the northern and northeastern states. Students from Florida make up about half of the student body. Sixty-two percent of full-time students live in campus housing.
Athletics
The University of Tampa competes at the Second Division level at the Sunshine State Conference (SSC). School mascot is Spartan.
The Spartan team has won a combined total of 15 NCAA Division II National Titles, as follows: seven in baseball (1992, 1993, 1998, 2006, 2007, 2013, 2015), three in men's soccer (1981, 1994, 2001), two in golf (1987, 1988), two in volleyball (2006, 2014) and one in women's soccer (2007).
UT currently competes in baseball, men's and women's basketball, beach volley/sand ladies, male and female cheerleading, cross country men and women, men's and women's golf, male and female lacrosse, men's and women's soccer, softball, men's pool and women, women's tennis, men's and women's tracks, and women's volleyball. The school has recently built a special stadium for baseball, softball, football, track, and lacrosse that rival many Division I facilities. The men's son's hockey team competes in the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA). UT's equestrian teams competed in the Horse Horses Association (IHSA).
Spartan Tampa Soccer
The Tampa University fielded the first college football team in the Tampa Bay area in 1933, as soon as the school was established. Spartans "Tampa U" played at Plant Field their first three seasons, which should be shared with many community events. In 1936, the school built its own facility at Phillips Field, named for local businessman I. W. Phillips, who donated a plot adjacent to the university for the stadium site. In 1967, the Spartans moved into the NCAA Division I and moved their home field to the newly built Tampa Stadium. The Spartans produce some NFL stars, such as John Matuszak and Freddie Solomon, and have considerable local followers. However, the school only had about 2000 students in the early 1970s and struggled to pay the cost of a college football program.
When Tampa was awarded a new NFL franchise in 1974 (soon to be named Tampa Bay Buccaneers), president of UT B.D. Owens reported to the university council that attendance at the Spartan match tended to decline, which further impacts the school's finances. Thus, the council voted to fold the Spartan football program after the 1974 season.
Student media
The journal journals UT, Neon (originally Quilt ), have been published by students since 1978. Neon held many events throughout the academic year, including open mic night, which is open to the public. Every year, Neon hosts a renowned author for "Coffeehouse Weekend." Recent visitors include Kate Greenstreet and Dorothy Allison.
Other student-managed publications include The Minaret the , Moroccan Year , and Splice Journal , which showcased student work in communication, art and culture.
UT also has student radio stations (WUTT 1080) and television stations (UT-TV).
Fraternities and sororities
The history of the UT and its association and fraternity is a rather controversial one. The first Greek groups appeared on campus in the early 1950s and in the 1970s they had developed a thriving culture including the tradition of having stones on campus with letters of organization on it. However, in the late 1970s all Greek organizations were excluded from UT and all Greek housing was destroyed or altered for other uses.
Despite these obstacles, the Greeks resurrected on campus in the mid-1980s. UT students formed local Greek groups, developing new traditions and rituals. Once these homegrown groups build campus presence, many national organizations are lobbyed, especially those who are on campus before banning, to assimilate them. In this way, Greek life returned to UT and with many of the same fraternities and associations of the past. Today, about 20 percent of UT undergraduate students are members of 28 fraternities and female college students.
Famous alumni and participants
Tampa University's renowned alumni include:
Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich studied at UT for two years but did not graduate. His brother, Rob, is a UT alumnus. Rielle Hunter studied at the University of Tampa for two years under the name Lisa Jo Druck before moving to the University of Florida, and then she resigned. Hunter had an affair with former presidential candidate Senator John Edwards, who later claimed to be the father of one of Hunter's sons.
Mikee Plastics, musicians, film composers and writers (attended UT for a year in 1999)
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was awarded the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters after giving a preliminary speech for the 2009 class.
Writer and DJ Steve Boyett attended the University of Tampa as a scholarship writing major from 1978 to 1979. He wrote about his experience there in the hereafter for his novel Ariel, beginning at university.
See also
- Florida Colleges and Universities Independent
References
External links
- Official website
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