The South Florida Military and Educational Institute was established in 1895 by Evander M. Law in Bartow , Florida , United States , and is considered one of several predecessors of the University of Florida.
6-627: It was renamed the South Florida Military College in 1903 and was granted the authority to confer degrees. The school stressed scientific and technological studies. The college was abolished in 1905 by the Buckman Act and some of its civil engineering equipment was transferred to the University of Florida at Gainesville. The college's remaining building is a historic site located at 1100 South Broadway which served as
12-707: A dormitory, and after the college's closure as a private home. On July 24, 1972, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places . This article about a property in Polk County, Florida on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a university or college in Florida is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Buckman Act The Buckman Act
18-987: The East Florida Seminary in Gainesville , the St. Petersburg Normal and Industrial School in St. Petersburg , and the South Florida Military College in Bartow —were merged into the new University of the State of Florida for white men. Gainesville was chosen for the location of the new school among several competing cities, and the UF campus opened in 1906. The Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes (the future Florida A&M University ) in Tallahassee served African Americans , and
24-768: The Florida Female College, later named the Florida State College for Women (the future Florida State University ), also in Tallahassee, served white women. A fourth school in St. Augustine provided specialized training and education for the deaf and blind (the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind ). The Buckman Act was discontinued after World War II , when the GI Bill provided a college education for returning U.S. military veterans,
30-608: The overwhelming majority of them male. It was replaced by a Board of Regents. Single-gender provisions of the Buckman Act at the University of Florida (UF) and the Florida State College for Women (FSCW) were officially eliminated in 1947. FSCW returned to coeducational status as Florida State University , while UF became coeducational for the first time. Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes,
36-549: Was a Florida law passed by the state legislature in 1905. It reorganized the state's institutions of higher learning and created a Florida Board of Control to govern the system. The act, named for legislator Henry Holland Buckman , consolidated the state's six institutions of higher education into three: one for white men, one for white women, and one for African Americans . Four institutions— Florida Agricultural College in Lake City (called University of Florida in 1903–1905),
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