City of Winter Park Names August 27
Rollins College Day

August 24, 2007

On Monday, August 27, Winter Park Mayor David C. Strong will present President Lewis Duncan with an official proclamation naming August 27 as "Rollins College Day in the City of Winter Park."

The City of Winter Park is recognizing Rollins as follows:

Founded in 1885, Rollins College is the oldest recognized college in the state of Florida, and the only comprehensive liberal arts college in the state.

On Monday, August 27th, the first day of the 2007- 08 academic year, Rollins College welcomes its 122nd incoming class.

For the third consecutive year, the college has been ranked No. 1 among regional universities in the South according to the annual rankings of "America's Best Colleges" in U.S. News & World Report.

For 10 consecutive years prior, Rollins had been ranked second among regional universities in the South and first in Florida by U.S. News & World Report.

U.S. News and World Report also ranked Rollins first among independent schools in the South in the "Great Schools, Great Prices" category, which recognizes schools offering the best value and relates academic quality with the net cost of attendance for a student who receives the average level of financial aid.

National acclaim for Rollins goes beyond its undergraduate program, as Forbes magazine consistently ranks the school's Crummer Graduate School of Business among the best business schools for return on investment, judging it No. 1 in Florida.

Rollins has produced Rhodes, Fulbright, Goldwater and Truman scholars; and even counts a Nobel Prize recipient as an alumnus; the school continues to be a standard-bearer in the field of higher education, and the City of Winter Park is proud to be home to this fine institution.

The proclamation will be displayed Tuesday through Friday in the Cornell Campus Center.