Students
There are 1,819 full-time degree seeking students and 163 faculty members (109 full-time and 54 part-time), for a 11:1 student:faculty ratio. The college's students come from nearly every state, with about one-quarter from Florida. The gender distribution is 42% male and 58% female. The college's Program for Experienced Learners serves about 1,500 non-traditional students, with classes taught largely in the evenings and on weekends. At the May, 2011 commencement, 393 degrees were awarded in the residential program and 139 in the Program for Experienced Learners.
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“We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should forcefully explain that our role is not to teach them to think as we do but rather to teach them, by example, the importance of taking a stance that is rooted in rigorous engagement with the full range of ideas about a topic.”
—bell hooks (b. 1955)
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“Separatism of any kind promotes marginalization of those unwilling to grapple with the whole body of knowledge and creative works available to others. This is true of black students who do not want to read works by white writers, of female students of any race who do not want to read books by men, and of white students who only want to read works by white writers.”
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