The Florida Senate

228.0875  Governor's Summer Colleges residential programs; scope; objectives.--

(1)  There is hereby established the Governor's Summer Colleges, a series of 4-week summer residential programs for highly qualified rising high school seniors to be conducted at selected residential institutions in the state. Each participating student shall be designated as a Governor's Scholar. The Governor's Summer Colleges shall consist of four independent programs in public issues, liberal arts, mathematics and science, and visual and performing arts. Students who are selected to participate in each Governor's Summer College shall be charged no fee for tuition, matriculation, registration, or housing.

(2)  The primary educational objectives of each Governor's Summer College shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

(a)  Engaging students in active learning projects that will foster intellectual and effective growth, and

(b)  Increasing student awareness of problems or issues related to an area of study and encouraging students to address the problems or issues in a manner through which they translate ideas into action.

(3)  The program shall commence during the 1987-1988 academic year, in the summer of 1988, with a Governor's Summer College of Liberal Arts at New College and a Governor's Summer College of Public Issues at Florida State University. Subsequent locations of each Governor's Summer College shall be designated by the State Board of Education.

History.--s. 1, ch. 87-311; s. 2, ch. 88-303; s. 5, ch. 91-429; s. 1206, ch. 95-147; s. 6, ch. 97-79.