Marks of Excellence

• The Urban Professional Development Schools project received the 2003 Distinguished Program in Teacher Education Award, a national award given to only one program a year by the Association of Teacher Educators.
  
  
• Archbishop Desmond Tutu spent the spring 2003 semester at UNF teaching a credit course for students and non-credit mini courses for the community.
  
  
• The Lady Ospreys basketball team won the South Atlantic Regional championship.
  
  
• The Counselor Education program was among six programs nationally to be honored by The Education National Trust for its work in changing school counseling programs.
  
  
• The Resident Student Association was named the most improved resident association for creating area councils within the association by the Florida Association of Residence Halls.
  
  
• The Hayt Golf Learning Center and the Hope Fund, a program in which journalism students write about needy families for the Florida Times-Union to raise money for charities, both took honors in the annual “Best of Florida Schools” competition sponsored by Florida Leader magazine.
  
  
• The Coggin College of Business opened the State Farm Companies Foundation Center for Financial Research, which provides the technological tools to access and analyze financial data.
  
  
• Of the Great 100 Nurses of Northeast Florida named in 2003, 35 are College of Health alumni, five of whom are faculty members.
  
  
• The Division of Sponsored Research and Training recorded awards totaling $15.4 million in 2002-03, a 15 percent increase in money over the previous year. The division has seen research money grow an average of $2.6 million each year since 1998-99, when it totaled a little more than $5 million.