^Florida State University fixes its date of establishment to 1851, the year the Florida legislature voted to establish two seminaries of learning: West Florida Seminary (which became the Florida State University) and East Florida Seminary (which became the University of Florida).[1] West Florida Seminary used this date of establishment prior to 1905, when the Buckman Act reorganized higher education in Florida and the three resulting state institutions all adopted 1905 as their founding date.[2] In 1935 the Florida Board of Control changed the founding dates of the University of Florida and the Florida State College for Women (now Florida State University) to the years their predecessor Seminaries opened as state-sponsored institutions, and Florida State's founding date was changed to 1857. In 2000 the Florida State University declared 1851 to be its official founding date.[3]
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^“Timeline”. The Florida Memory Project. State Library and Archives of Florida (1851年). 2010年8月1日時点のオリジナルよりアーカイブ。2010年7月9日閲覧。
^ abc“Student Enrollment”. Student Information. Florida State University – Office of Institutional Research (Fall 2006 to Fall 2010). 2015年9月24日時点のオリジナルよりアーカイブ。2010年12月9日閲覧。
