2007 – The Mori Hosseini School of Hospitality and Culinary Management, a $ 26 million, state-of-the-art training facility for Hospitality and Culinary Management programs opens its doors. 2008- To reflect its stature as a four-year degree granting institution and its expanded mission, the college adopts a new name – Daytona State College. 2009 – The college adds seven new bachelor’ s degrees in Elementary Education, Exceptional Student Education, and Secondary Mathematics, Biology, Earth / Space, Chemistry and Physics Education. A year later, the State Board of Education approves the college’ s ninth four-year degree – the Bachelor of Science
Deland Campus in Engineering Technology. 2012 – The college dedicates its new Veterans Center on the Daytona Beach Campus. Comprehensive services for veterans are established on all campuses. The college would later be designated a Military Friendly School by veteran-owned Victory Media for three straight years. 2013- U. S. News & World Report ranks Daytona State No. 2 for Best Online Bachelor’ s Programs. The college would remain among the nation’ s best for five years running. 2013- State Board of Education approves Daytona State’ s bid to offer the bachelor’ s degree in Information Technology. 2014- DSC celebrates 50 years as one of nation’ s top photography schools. 2015- Dr. Thomas LoBasso is named DSC president by the District Board of Trustees in June, after serving as interim president since January. Daytona State joins the DirectConnect to UCF partnership, opening the door for DSC AA graduates to make a smooth transition to UCF to earn their bachelor’ s degrees. In its continuing
Wetherell Student Services Center and Administration push to make college more affordable, Daytona State becomes first in Florida, and among only a few in the nation, to reduce tuition. 2016- The national Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology formally grants accreditation to DSC’ s Bachelor of Science in Engineering Technology( BSET) program through 2022. The accreditation extends retroactively from October 2013, benefitting prior program graduates. 2017 – May’ s commencement marks over 100,000 certificates and degrees awarded by the college.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Dec. 17, 1925- T. Higbee Embry and John Paul Riddle form a company in their names at Lunken Field in Cincinnati, Ohio, with Embry as president and Riddle as general manager. The Embry- Riddle Flying School begins operating in spring 1926. October 1939- John Paul Riddle partners with attorney John McKay to form the Embry-Riddle Company’ s seaplane base in Miami. Riddle enters into agreement with the University of Miami to train college students to fly under the 1939 Civilian Pilot Training Program; he leases a hangar at Municipal Airport and expands the training fleet to 15 aircraft.
ERAU 1927 biplane
Mar. 22, 1941- Embry-Riddle opens the new Carlstrom Field, the first of five fields established for training pilots( 1941-45) for the U. S. Army Air Corps / Army Air Forces and British Royal Air Force. November 1943- Embry-Riddle establishes the Escola Técnica de Aviação in São Paulo, Brazil, to train Brazilian cadets in basic aircraft construction and maintenance.
October 1944- Embry-Riddle becomes one of the first aviation schools to train veterans under the GI Bill. October 1958- The Engineer’ s Council for Professional Development accredits Embry-Riddle’ s Aeronautical Engineering Technology program. 1959- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Institute( ERAI) is established as a nonprofit corporation. 1962- U. S. Navy Cmdr. Jack Hunt becomes Embry-Riddle’ s first university
March 1952 president. Apr. 23-25, 1965- Embry-Riddle moves from Miami to Daytona Beach in what was termed“ Operation Bootstrap,” with assistance and support from members of the Daytona Beach community. 1968-69- The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools accredits Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Institute as a“ special purpose institution.” Jun. 9, 1970- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Institute becomes Embry- Riddle Aeronautical University. It touts a two-college structure: Aeronautical Studies and Aviation Technology. 1973 – The university’ s College of Continuing Education begins offering its first graduate level program, an M. S. in Aviation Management, through a partnership with the Miami Education Consortium and Biscayne College. 1979- Time magazine calls Embry-Riddle the“ Harvard of the Sky.” 1987- The Daytona Beach Campus offers its first graduate programs: M. S. in Aeronautical Engineering, MBA – Aviation, M. S. in Aviation Management and Master of Aeronautical Science. The Prescott Campus launches the M. S. in Business Administration, M. S. in Aviation Management and the Master of Aeronautical Science. 2000- U. S. News & World Report ranks Embry-Riddle’ s Aerospace Engineering program No. 1 among the nation’ s undergraduate aerospace engineering programs without a Ph. D. The program has been ranked No. 1 each year since, through 2015. 2010- Embry-Riddle launches its first Ph. D. programs: The Ph. D. in Engineering Physics and the Ph. D. in Aviation, which is the first of its kind in the nation. 2011 – The university’ s Worldwide Campus establishes its first Asian center in collaboration with Singapore Aviation Academy, the training division of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, offering a Master in Business Administration – Aviation degree. 2013 – The university creates the world’ s first bachelor’ s degree in commercial space operations. 2014- Embry-Riddle opens the largest university research telescope in the state of Florida at its Daytona Beach Campus; and the Prescott Campus launches the nation’ s first College of Security and Intelligence. Dec. 17, 2015 – The university celebrates the 90 th anniversary of its founding. February 2017- The Advanced Aerodynamics Lab opens at the Embry-Riddle Research & Technology Park at the Daytona Beach Campus. March 2017 – Dr. P. Barry Butler, Ph. D. becomes the university’ s sixth president.
Stetson University
Nov. 5, 1883- Henry A. DeLand and Dr. John H. Griffith inaugurate DeLand Academy in a lecture room of the First Baptist Church in DeLand. Oct. 13, 1884- DeLand Hall opens. The original cost of the building was $ 4,000. The first academic building at the DeLand campus, DeLand Hall today is the oldest building in Florida in continuous use for higher education.
DeLand Hall
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