House Bill hb9063

    Florida House of Representatives - 2001                HR 9063

        By Representative Rubio






  1                         House Resolution

  2         A resolution designating April 18, 2001,

  3         "University of Florida Day."

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  5         WHEREAS, the state's oldest land-grant university and

  6  its largest university, the University of Florida was the

  7  first Florida institution to achieve university status, is the

  8  most comprehensive university in the state, and is among the

  9  nation's most academically diverse universities, and

10         WHEREAS, the University of Florida is the state's only

11  member of the Association of American Universities, is the

12  only university with extension programs in every county of the

13  state and, through the extension's 4-H branches, on five

14  Seminole Tribe reservations, has awarded more than 300,000

15  degrees, with an estimated 150,000 alumni currently living and

16  working in Florida, and is exceeded by only two other public

17  universities in the nation in the number of National Merit

18  Scholars to its credit, and

19         WHEREAS, the University of Florida's Health Science

20  Center is the most all-inclusive academic health center in the

21  Southeast, and, through its Institute of Food and Agricultural

22  Sciences, the university reaches more than 1.3 million

23  participants throughout the state, thanks to more than 41,000

24  volunteers in the areas of urban horticulture, youth and

25  family development, nutrition education, and natural resources

26  enhancement, and

27         WHEREAS, the University of Florida has just concluded a

28  five-year "It's Performance that Counts" campaign that raised

29  more than $850 million toward the furtherance of academic

30  excellence, has been awarded $339 million in funding for

31  sponsored research, and has a total annual impact on the state

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2001                HR 9063

    736-118A-01






  1  of almost $3.2 billion, more than six times the $511 million

  2  comprising the state's investment in the university, NOW,

  3  THEREFORE,

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  5  Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of

  6  Florida:

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  8         That the House of Representatives pauses in its

  9  deliberations to recognize the University of Florida for its

10  superlative accomplishments in the State of Florida and to

11  designate April 18, 2001, "University of Florida Day."

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