The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools re-accredited the University of North Florida, giving the institution high marks for quality of academic programs.

Construction began in 1999 on a $22 million, 105,000 square-foot Fine Arts Center. The new center, scheduled for completion in the summer of 2001, will provide a strong link between UNF and the Jacksonville area community.

UNF music professor Bunky Green was named to the International Association of Jazz Educators Hall of Fame. Professor Green is part of a music program that has received national and international recognition, including an invitation to play in the prestigious North Shore Jazz Festival in The Hague, Holland, in the summer of 2000.

The UNF's Students In Free Enterprise team, part of the College of Business Administration, won its third straight regional title before taking the national title and placing among the top 20 teams in the world during competition in the summer of 1999.

UNF's mock trial team defeated Ivy League and land grant universities on its way to national prominence last year.
Students in the Department of Construction Management placed first in the Associated Schools of Construction Southeast Regional competing against major research universities.
USA Today named Elaine Reynolds to the All-USA College Academic first team in 1999, a year after Reynolds became UNF's first Truman Scholar, one of only 75 students in the U.S. and the only student in Florida to receive the honor.

Florida Leader magazine listed the 1999-2000 UNF Student Government Association among the top three of its kind within the State University System.

The UNF baseball team reached the top spot in NCAA Division II national rankings in 1999, ending the season ranked No. 7 and won the Peach Belt Athletic Conference. The men's tennis team finished ninth in the Division II national rankings, and the men's golf team finished No. 14 in the nation in NCAA Division I poll.

The UNF athletic program has produced four national championships, including the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics men's golf title in 1991 and 1993; the NAIA women's tennis championship in 1986, and the NCAA Division II women's tennis title in 1994.

ARTS AND SCIENCES
Grant awards continue to augment the quality of education at the College of Arts and Sciences, such as a $580,000 award to purchase a SQUID magnetometer. The highly sensitive magnetic field measuring device will allow undergraduate students and Department of Physics faculty to work together to conduct field research.

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 
The College of Business Administration at UNF, operating from a state-of-the-art, high-tech $7.8 million facility, offers the area's only nationally accredited undergraduate and graduate business degree programs, and the area's first fully accredited weekend MBA program.
Two new fields of study - financial services and international business - are now available to better serve the growing needs of the North Florida region.

EDUCATION AND HUMAN SERVICES
The College is accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education, one of only 12 teacher education programs in Florida to hold this distinction. Recent grants and gifts include support from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to establish an urban professional development high school and a three-year grant from the DeWitt Wallace Reader's Digest Foundation for revision of the School Counseling program.

COMPUTING SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
New programs in civil and mechanical engineering will begin in the year 2000 and 2001, respectively Electrical engineering and computer science undergraduate programs are nationally accredited by discipline specific agencies.

HEALTH
Students are prepared for successful careers with approved or accredited programs in nursing, nutrition, sports medicine/athletic training and health administration More than 90 percent of nursing, physical therapy and nutrition graduates passed licensure or registration exams and became eligible to practice on their first attempt last year.

UNF's scenic campus
is nestled among 1,300 acres which includes a nature
and wildlife area with lakes and nature trails. This
beautiful woodland is used
for scientific research and
has been the site for the
annual Envirothon for
local schools.
Campus encompasses
24 major buildings with
nearly 2.45 million square
feet of space.
Osprey Cove, UNF's
most recent addition to campus housing, has added 450 more beds bringing the total number of students living on campus
to about 1,600. Another 500 beds are in the planning
stages for 2001.
Currently under construction:
> A 9,200 seat soccer/track stadium is set to open in 2001;

The Division of Continuing Education, which provides more than 480 non-credit programs to the community, enrolled 13,894 participants in 1999.

A 285-acre technology park adjoins UNF's main campus and is available for commercial development.

UNF's Small Business Development Center assists entrepeneurs with one-on-one assistance and business workshops. During the last fiscal year, 2,200 individual clients were served while 2,700 others participated in various business workshops.

The UNF National Alumni Association, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, maintains contact with more than 33,000 alumni through five regional chapters in the Southeast United States, and has established its first