Jacksonville University

[blizz01]

Me too!

[duvaldude08]

How many total students does the university have? I take it that the school is no longer a junior college, right?

JU jas not been a junior college for a very long time

[dougskiles]

Hearing him talk about his role in urban redevelopment with the Clinton Administration and then with the re-building of New Orleans after Katrina,

I'm glad he can speak to his own accomplishments, but can anyone else speak to them? any leaders from Washington or people in Katrina who were personally affected by his leadership and actions?

I believe that Bill Clinton came to Jacksonville and spoke about those accomplishments.  But, I understand that his recommendation may not hold as much weight as Rick Scott's.

[Duke]

Notable Alumni

Tom McMillan - former Major League Baseball shortstop and member of the inaugural 1977 Seattle Mariners team.

David Walker, Comptroller General of the United States

Artis Gilmore, NBA Basketball Star in the 1970s and 1980s

Otis Smith, NBA Basketball Star in the 1980s and 1990s and currently the General Manager of the Orlando Magic.

Dee Brown, NBA Boston Celtics, former NBA All-Star Dunk Contest Winner and now Community Ambassador for the Orlando Magic.

Bob Moore, composer and conductor

Tony Steve, composer and percussionist

Roy Lantz, Executive Vice President of American Recruiters

Bill Boston, composer and orchestrator

Frank Pace, Hollywood Producer

Donald Doddridge, President of America's Blood Centers

Paul Perez, Chief Compliance Officer for Fidelity National Financial

Tommy Krizanovic, Forward for the MLS team FC Dallas

Steve Congro, Metro Jacksonville co-founder

Alvin Brown, Mayor of Jacksonville

Hopefully we can update this list of notable graduates in such a way soon.

And ME!

Me too!! c/o '10 and working on my Masters @ JU now

Go Dolphins!!

[Dog Walker]

Oh OK, so it's slightly bigger than my alma mater, The Citadel. Cool. BTW, you guys have a GREAT mascot!  As far as academics, I think some of the best education actually comes from the smaller universities.

Charles Native, you are so right about smaller universities, at least for some of us.  I struggled my first year at FSU; too many distractions, too many huge lecture classes taught by bored graduate students.  Came home, got a job, went to classes at JU which suited me much better.  Smaller classes taught interesting professors were almost like graduate seminars.  Did just fine there despite having to work full time.  I'm one of those who learns best from people, not from textbooks.

[fieldafm]

Pretty cool stuff.  I hope to visit the MSRI soon and will share some more non-political interesting things about Jacksonville in my quest to lighten things up around here a little bit.

Doug, why don't you and Jacob come with me on April 30th?  I am going up to MSRI in the morning before the Duke/JU lacrosse game.

Dr White and the MSRI may be the best thing to have happened to the St Johns since water was invented.

[dougskiles]

Count us in!  What time?