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| Office of the President > State of the University 2000 | |
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A Future We Would
Welcome - How We Measure Up |
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| V. | Expand services to Floridians by increasing programs in health and other related areas to benefit all residents of the state. | Recommendation V | |
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a public university, looking to the needs of the state of Florida and its
residents is an important part of our mission. Throughout the university,
one can see contributions that enhance the lives of the people of Florida.
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started to list these, and they are too numerous--the Pepper Institute on
Aging and its Academy at FSU; the Urban and Regional Planning Department,
working with neighborhoods and local government; our School of Visual Arts
and Dance, working with teachers and pupils; our biology department and
Saturday-by-the-Sea, Sea to See and SSTRIDE; Social Work and the Tallahassee
Boys’ Choir, our meteorology, planning, and public affairs units, working
with emergency management; the Stavros, Collins, DeVoe Moore and National
Geographic Centers working with K-12 faculty and students; the service function
provided by our Lab School, and our Southside Mentoring Initiative. |
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| These
examples are just a tip of the iceberg of service and knowledge-building
that FSU returns to the citizens of Florida. A copy of the brochure showing
the many connections of this engaged university is worth your review. |
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| Two
recent events are, however, worthy of more detailed examination because
they are entirely new. |
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| In
1999, the Board of Regents, acting on data gathered by a consultant to FSU,
approved the increase of 150 more medical students each year. In 2000, with
approval from the Florida Legislature and the Governor, the College
of Medicine was formed to meet this Board-identified need. The school
began admitting its first class of students who will be prepared to deliver
primary care to rural, underserved and aged citizens. This is the first
allopathic medical school to open in the country in two decades. It will
help to provide Florida trained physicians for the underserved citizens
of the state instead of relying on importing our physician supply. |
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| Dr.
Myra Hurt is our Interim Dean, and Dr. Bob Bradley is leading a project
team, supported by Laura Brock. |
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plans for the school are well under way, and we are expecting provisional
accreditation next March. We have begun the search for our first permanent
dean, and we have already begun admitting students to our first class. We
are developing community clinical sites for training throughout Florida,
and we are hiring a Director of Rural/Underserved Medicine and a Community
Development Director, titles that are unusual for medical school staff.
Building plans are being developed. We have completed initial plans for
our telemedicine and bioinformatics systems, and our strategic plan, organizational
plan and operating budgets for 2000-2008 are in progress. |
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| Dean
Hurt could not be with us, but she asked me to tell you a little about the
first students admitted to the FSU College of Medicine: |
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| Joda
Lynn and Lorna Fedelem represent the very best in the next generation of
our state's citizens. Both have shown with their lives a long commitment
to service to their communities. Joda and Lorna both exemplify the kind
of caring physician we want holding our hands, talking to us about options
when we are facing the tough moments in life. It is a privilege and an
honor to prepare these young people, the first students of Florida State
University's new College of Medicine, for a life of service as physicians. |
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want to introduce Joda Lynn, who is with us today. Joda is a biology major
here at FSU. He’s from Perry, Florida, and he plans go back to Perry after
medical school and serve his community as a primary care physician. The
Perry community has responded to him enthusiastically and has awarded him
a $50,000 scholarship. |
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| Also
this year, the Florida Legislature and the Governor assigned the Ringling
properties, including the Ca’ d’Zan residence, the Ringling Museum and the
Museum of the Circus to the stewardship of Florida State University.
This is another new area of service to Floridians. |
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| This
museum—the official art museum of the State of Florida, with the 16th largest
art collection in the country, will make this the largest university-operated
museum in the country. |
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accepted this opportunity with the state’s commitment that it would provide
necessary resources to maintain and enhance the museum and its properties,
and we are working closely with a splendid new board and with Sen. John
McKay. |
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| The
legislation sponsored by Sen. McKay recognizes the excellence of our own
programs in the visual and performing arts, art history and museum studies,
and it created the exciting new FSU-Ringling Center for the Cultural Arts
in Sarasota. The new center will include the Museum and its properties,
and FSU’s graduate theatre Asolo Conservatory in Sarasota and a new program
in dance that was funded by the Legislature. We envision a wonderful partnership
among people and institutions committed to scholarship and culture. |
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| Our
Commissions also urged us to: |
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| Recommendation VI | back to IV | ||
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