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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.〔 It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 1,884, of which 41% of the population is male and 59% female. Its setting is suburban, and the campus size is 80 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. ==History== Rollins College is Florida's oldest post-secondary institution,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=House Resolution )〕 and has been independent, nonsectarian, and coeducational from conception.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rollins College Profile )〕 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 tasked with determining the location of the first college in Florida (which Rollins was).〔 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.〔http://sanford365.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/50_photo.jpg〕 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.〔Gayle Prince Rajtar, Steve Rajtar, (Winter Park Chronicles ), 2011, page 35〕 Another early benefactor was Franklin Fairbanks of St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Fairbanks was President of the family business, Fairbanks Scales, and was a founder of Winter Park, a donor to Rollins College and a trustee.〔Winter Park Public Library, (Winter Park History Digital Collections: Colonel Franklin Fairbanks ), retrieved January 14, 2014〕 In March of 1936 during a visit to Central Florida, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was conferred an honorary degree in literature at the Knowles Chapel on campus. Other U.S. Presidents who have visited the campus include Calvin Coolidge (1930), Harry Truman (1949), Ronald Reagan (1976; prior to his 1980 election), and Barack Obama (2012)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Celebrating President's Day )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=President Barack Obama Holds Grassroots Event at Rollins )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rollins College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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