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{{Short description|Public university system in Florida}}
{{Redirect|SUSF|the successor to Scottish Universities Sports Federation|Scottish Universities Sport}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2018}}
{{Infobox university
| name = State University System of Florida
| image = 
| established = {{start date and age|1905}}
| type = [[Public university|Public]] [[university system]]
| chancellor = [[Ray Rodrigues]]
| city = [[Tallahassee]]
| state = [[Florida]]
| country = U.S.
| campus = 12 member institutions
| colors = Blue and gold {{color box|#003050}}&nbsp;{{color box|#a8860f}}
| website = {{url|www.flbog.edu}}
| enrollment = 430,000 (2023)
| logo = State University System of Florida logo.svg
}}

The '''State University System of Florida''' ('''SUSF''' or '''SUS''') is a [[State university system|system of twelve public universities]] in the U.S. state of [[Florida]]. As of 2018, over 341,000 students were enrolled in Florida's state universities.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://flbog.edu/documents_meetings/0199_0974_7281_4.3.2%20SPC%202014-15_System_Accountability_Report_Summary.pdf|title=System Accountability Report Summary|access-date=September 24, 2018}}</ref> Together with the [[Florida College System]], which includes Florida's 28 [[community colleges in the United States|community colleges]] and [[state university|state colleges]], it is part of Florida's system of public [[higher education]]. The system, headquartered in [[Tallahassee]],<ref>"[http://www.flbog.org/contact/ Contact Us]." State University System of Florida. Retrieved on August 26, 2011. "Florida Board of Governors State University System 325 West Gaines Street, Suite 1614 Tallahassee, Fl 32399-0400"</ref> is overseen by a chancellor and governed by the [[Florida Board of Governors]].

The Florida Board of Governors was created in 2003 to centralize the administration of the State University System of Florida. Previously, Florida's State University System had been governed by the [[Florida Board of Regents]] (1965–2001) and the [[Florida Board of Control]] (1905–1965).

==History and governance==
Prior to 1905, Florida's state institutions were governed by a Board of Education and even earlier variations thereof, reaching back to the [[Florida]] Constitution of 1838 wherein higher education and normal education was established, based on grants of land from the [[U.S. Congress]]. From 1905 to 1965, the few universities in the system were governed by the [[Florida Board of Control]]. The Board of Control was replaced by the [[Florida Board of Regents]] in 1965, to accommodate the growing university system.

The Board of Regents governed until it was disbanded by the [[Florida Legislature]] in 2001, and its authority was divided between the [[Florida Board of Education]] (which was given some authority over all levels of public education in the state), and appointed university boards of trustees, which operated independently for each separate institution. In 2002, Floridians led by U.S. senator [[Bob Graham]] passed an amendment to the [[Florida Constitution]] establishing a new statewide [[Governance|governing body]], the [[Florida Board of Governors]].

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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:1em auto;"
|-
! Term !! Chancellor
|-
|1954–1968
|'''[[J. Broward Culpepper]]'''
|-
|1968–1975
|'''[[Robert B. Mautz]]'''
|-
|1975–1980
|'''[[E.T. York]]'''
|-
|1981–1985
|'''[[Barbara W. Newell]]'''
|-
|1985–1998
|'''[[Charles B. Reed]]'''
|-
|1998–2001
|'''[[Adam Herbert|Adam W. Herbert]]'''
|-
|2001
|'''[[Judy Hample|Judy G. Hample]]'''
|-
|2003–2005
|'''[[Debra D. Austin]]'''
|-
|2005–2009
|'''[[Mark B. Rosenberg]]'''
|-
|2009–2013
|'''[[Frank T. Brogan]]'''
|-
|2014–2022
|'''[[Marshall Criser III]]'''
|-
|2023–present
|'''[[Ray Rodrigues]]'''
|}
<div class="center">{{SUSF chancellors timeline}}</div>
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{{Hidden begin |title=SUS Student Enrollment |titlestyle=background: #003050; color: white; border: 2px solid #FFFFFF; text-align:center;}}
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:1em auto;"
|-
! colspan="3" style="background-color:#ccf; background-color:#ccf; padding-right:3px; padding-left:3px; font-size:110%; text-align:center;" | SUS Student Enrollment
|- style="font-size:95%; text-align:center"
! style="border-bottom:1px solid black" | Year || style="border-bottom:1px solid black" | Students || style="border-bottom:1px solid black;" | {{abbr|%±|Percent change}}
|- style="text-align:center;"
| '''1905''' || {{formatnum: 620 }} || | —
|- style="text-align:center;"
| '''1910''' || {{formatnum: 835 }} || style="text-align:right; padding-right:15px" | +35%
|- style="text-align:center;"
| '''1915''' || {{formatnum: 1341 }} || style="text-align:right; padding-right:15px" | +61%
|- style="text-align:center;"
| '''1920''' || {{formatnum: 1882 }} || style="text-align:right; padding-right:15px" | +40%
|- style="text-align:center;"
| '''1925''' || {{formatnum: 3688 }} || style="text-align:right; padding-right:15px" | +96%
|- style="text-align:center;"
| '''1930''' || {{formatnum: 4655 }} || style="text-align:right; padding-right:15px" | +26%
|- style="text-align:center;"
| '''1935''' || {{formatnum: 5550 }} || style="text-align:right; padding-right:15px" | +19%
|- style="text-align:center;"
| '''1940''' || {{formatnum: 6395 }} || style="text-align:right; padding-right:15px" | +15%
|- style="text-align:center;"
| '''1945''' || {{formatnum: 7020 }} || style="text-align:right; padding-right:15px" | +10%
|- style="text-align:center;"
| '''1950''' || {{formatnum: 19015 }} || style="text-align:right; padding-right:15px" | +171%
|- style="text-align:center;"
| '''1955''' || {{formatnum: 19847 }} || style="text-align:right; padding-right:15px" | +4%
|- style="text-align:center;"
| '''1960''' || {{formatnum: 27053 }} || style="text-align:right; padding-right:15px" | +36%
|- style="text-align:center;"
| '''1965''' || {{formatnum: 43849 }} || style="text-align:right; padding-right:15px" | +62%
|- style="text-align:center;"
| '''1970''' || {{formatnum: 73676 }} || style="text-align:right; padding-right:15px" | +68%
|- style="text-align:center;"
| '''1975''' || {{formatnum: 115334 }} || style="text-align:right; padding-right:15px" | +57%
|- style="text-align:center;"
| '''1980''' || {{formatnum: 128578 }} || style="text-align:right; padding-right:15px" | +11%
|- style="text-align:center;"
| '''1985''' || {{formatnum: 146692 }} || style="text-align:right; padding-right:15px" | +14%
|- style="text-align:center;"
| '''1990''' || {{formatnum: 179775 }} || style="text-align:right; padding-right:15px" | +23%
|- style="text-align:center;"
| '''1995''' || {{formatnum: 208493 }} || style="text-align:right; padding-right:15px" | +16%
|- style="text-align:center;"
| '''2000''' || {{formatnum: 240753 }} || style="text-align:right; padding-right:15px" | +15%
|- style="text-align:center;"
| '''2005''' || {{formatnum: 287375 }} || style="text-align:right; padding-right:15px" | +19%
|- style="text-align:center;"
| '''2010''' || {{formatnum: 321503 }} || style="text-align:right; padding-right:15px" | +12%
|- style="text-align:center;"
| '''2015''' || {{formatnum: 345672 }} || style="text-align:right; padding-right:15px" | +8%
|- style="text-align:center;"
| '''2020''' || {{formatnum: 353041 }} || style="text-align:right; padding-right:15px" | +2%
|- style="text-align:center;"
| '''2021''' || {{formatnum: 354186 }} || style="text-align:right; padding-right:15px" | +0%
|-
| colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid black; font-size:85%; text-align:left" | Sources:<ref name="flbog.edu">{{cite web |url=http://www.flbog.edu/resources/iud/enrollment_results.php|title=State University System of Florida &#124; Board of Governors : Resources |publisher=Flbog.edu|access-date=August 23, 2014}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.flbog.edu/resources/_doc/factbooks/quickfacts/200804SUS_Headcount_Enrollment_1905-present.xls |title=Enrollment data |website=www.flbog.edu |access-date=2019-05-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Data Dashboard FL Universities |url=https://www.flbog.edu/resources/data-analytics/dashboards/headcount-enrollment-by-student-type/ |website=Data Dashboard FL Universities |access-date=16 January 2023}}</ref>
|}
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==Member institutions==
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    | label = [[Florida Gulf Coast University|FGCU]]
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    | label = [[Florida Polytechnic University|Florida Poly]]
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    | label = [[Florida State University|FSU]]
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    | label = [[New College of Florida|New College]]
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    | label = [[University of Central Florida|UCF]]
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    | label = [[University of North Florida|UNF]]
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{| class="wikitable sortable" ;
! colspan=5 style="background:#003050;color:#a7850f;" |  '''State University System of Florida'''
|-
! class="sortable"|Institution
! class="sortable"|Location
! class="sortable"|Established
! class="sortable"|Start of instruction
! class="sortable"|Enrollment (2021)
|-
|[[Florida State University]]
|[[Tallahassee, Florida|Tallahassee]]
|1851{{Efn||name=Founding Date|group=MI}}
|1857
|45,130<ref>{{cite web |title=2021-22 Common Data Set FAMU |url=https://ir.fsu.edu/commondataset.aspx |access-date=16 January 2023}}</ref>
|-
|[[University of Florida]]
|[[Gainesville, Florida|Gainesville]]
|1853{{Efn|name=Founding Date|group=MI}}
|1853
|61,112<ref>{{cite web |title=UF Data |url=https://ir.aa.ufl.edu/facts/enrollment/ |access-date=16 January 2023}}</ref>
|-
|[[Florida A&M University]]
|[[Tallahassee, Florida|Tallahassee]]
|1887{{Efn|In 1836, the United States Congress authorized the establishment of a University of Florida in the Florida Territory to be located on lands reserved in both East and West Florida. In 1851, the Florida legislature voted to establish two seminaries of learning: West Florida Seminary (which later became Florida State University) and East Florida Seminary (which later became the University of Florida).<ref>{{cite web |title=Timeline |work=The Florida Memory Project |publisher=State Library and Archives of Florida |year=1851 |url=http://www.floridamemory.com/exhibits/timeline/index.cfm |access-date=July 9, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100801230945/http://www.floridamemory.com/exhibits/timeline/index.cfm |archive-date=August 1, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1905, when the [[Buckman Act]] reorganized higher education in Florida, the three resulting state institutions (Florida, Florida State, and Florida A&M) all adopted 1905 as their founding date. In 1935, the Florida Board of Control changed the founding dates of Florida and Florida State to the years their predecessor Seminaries opened: 1853 and 1857, respectively. In 2000, Florida State reverted to the charter date of 1851 as its founding date, which was used before 1905,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Argo 1901-1902 {{!}} FSU Digital Repository |url=https://repository.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:22000#page/122/mode/2up |access-date=2024-11-14 |website=repository.lib.fsu.edu}}</ref> reflecting the date the legislature authorized both seminaries. Florida A&M later declared its founding date to be 1887 to reflect when its predecessor, the State Normal College for Colored Students, was founded.<ref name="Congressional Edition, Vol. 283, Section 346">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jpVHAQAAIAAJ&q=university+florida&pg=PR123 |title=Memorial of the Trustees of the University of Florida (R.K. Call, John G. Gamble, Thomas Randall, Louis M. Goldsborough, Thos. Eston Randolph, F. Eppes, E. Loockerman, Benjamin Chaires, Turbutt R. Betton, Fitch W. Taylor, J. Loring Woart, Ashbeel Steele, J. Edwin Stewart), p. cxxiii |publisher=United States Congress |date=December 7, 1835 |access-date=December 13, 2013}}</ref></small>|name=Founding Date|group=MI}}
|1887
|9,000<ref>{{cite web |title=2021-22 Common Data Set FAMU |url=https://www.famu.edu/administration/strategic-planning-analysis-and-institutional-effectiveness/institutional-research/surveys/pdf/cds/CDS_2021-2022.pdf |access-date=16 January 2023}}</ref>
|-
|[[University of South Florida]]
|[[Tampa, Florida|Tampa]]
|1956
|1960
|44,322<ref>{{cite web |title=2021-22 Common Data Set USF |url=https://www.usf.edu/ods/documents/cds/cds-2021-2022-usf.pdf |access-date=16 January 2023}}</ref>
|-
|[[Florida Atlantic University]]
|[[Boca Raton, Florida|Boca Raton]]
|1961
|1964{{efn|group=MI|name=LD84|FAU and North Florida did not admit freshmen or sophomores until 1984.}}
|30,155<ref>{{cite web |title=2021-22 Common Data Set FAU |url=https://www.fau.edu/iea/documents/pdf/cds/cds-2021-2022.pdf |access-date=16 January 2023}}</ref>
|-
|[[University of West Florida]]
|[[Pensacola, Florida|Pensacola]]
|1963
|1967{{efn|group=MI|West Florida did not admit freshmen or sophomores until 1983.}}
|13,317<ref>{{cite web |title=2021-22 Common Data Set UWF |url=https://uwf.edu/media/university-of-west-florida/academic-affairs/departments/institutional-research/cds/CDS_2021-22.pdf |access-date=16 January 2023}}</ref>
|-
|[[University of Central Florida]]
|[[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]]{{efn|group=MI|The main UCF campus has an Orlando mailing address, but is in unincorporated [[Orange County, Florida|Orange County]].}}
|1963
|1968
|70,406<ref>{{cite web |title=2021-22 Common Data Set UCF |url=https://ikm.ucf.edu/storage/2022/07/Common-Data-Set-2021-2022.pdf |access-date=16 January 2023}}</ref>
|-
|[[Florida International University]]
|[[Miami]]{{efn|group=MI|The main FIU campus has a Miami mailing address, but is in unincorporated [[Miami-Dade County, Florida|Miami-Dade County]].}}
|1965
|1972{{efn|group=MI|FIU did not admit freshmen or sophomores until 1981.}}
|56,732<ref>{{cite web |title=2021-22 Common Data Set FIU |url=https://opir.fiu.edu/CDS/CDS2021.pdf |access-date=16 January 2023}}</ref>
|-
|[[New College of Florida]]
|[[Sarasota, Florida|Sarasota]]
|1960 (private, joined SUSF in 1975 via USF, independent 2001)
|1964
|659<ref>{{cite web |title=New College Data |url=https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/new.college.of.florida.institutional.research/viz/IPEDSEnrollmentPart1/EnrollmentHeadcounts |access-date=16 January 2023}}</ref>
|-
|[[University of North Florida]]
|[[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]]
|1965
|1972{{efn|group=MI|name=LD84}}
|16,594<ref>{{cite web |title=2021-22 Common Data Set UNF |url=https://www.unf.edu/ir/common-data-set/2021.html |access-date=16 January 2023}}</ref>
|-
|[[Florida Gulf Coast University]]
|[[Fort Myers, Florida|Fort Myers]]{{efn|group=FoundingDate|The main FGCU campus has a Fort Myers mailing address, but is in unincorporated [[Lee County, Florida|Lee County]].}}
|1991
|1997
|15,370<ref>{{cite web |title=2021-22 Common Data Set FGCU |url=https://www.fgcu.edu/planning/institutionalresearch/files/CDS-2020-2021-ada.pdf |access-date=16 January 2023}}</ref>
|-
|[[Florida Polytechnic University]]
|[[Lakeland, Florida|Lakeland]]
|2012
|2014
|1,563<ref>{{cite web |title=2021-22 Common Data Set FPU |url=https://floridapoly.edu/institutional-research-and-effectiveness/publications/commondataset-2021-22.pdf |access-date=16 January 2023}}</ref>
|}
{{Notelist|group=MI}}

== Gallery ==
<gallery mode="packed" heights="100px">
Samuel H. Coleman Memorial Library.jpg|[[Florida A&M University]]
FAU Education College.JPG|[[Florida Atlantic University]]
Main Campus (8405658966).jpg|[[Florida Gulf Coast University]]
Florida International University.jpg|[[Florida International University]]
Florida_Polytechnic_University_(25811685378).jpg|[[Florida Polytechnic University]]
Westcott Fountain.jpg|[[Florida State University]]
JaneBancroftCookLibrary.jpg|[[New College of Florida]]
Reflection Pond (16342612701).jpg|[[University of Central Florida]]
Gville UF Century Tower01.jpg|[[University of Florida]]
UNF Student Union pic.jpg|[[University of North Florida]]
USF Marshall Center Running of the Bulls.JPG|[[University of South Florida]]
PIMG0125.JPG|[[University of West Florida]] 
</gallery>

==See also==
{{Portal|Florida}}
*[[Florida College System]]
*[[Florida Student Association]]
* [[Florida Department of Education]]
* [[Advisory Council of Faculty Senates]]
* [[List of colleges and universities in Florida]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Official website}}

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