This week’s college is:

FLAGLER COLLEGE

If you were in AVID last year; you might of taken a field trip to visit Flagler College in St. Augustine, FL.

There is a lot of history behind the walls of this college, so let’s get to them.

Flagler College is a liberal arts college. Its tuition for 2006-2007  was $11,810 and its acceptance rate is an average of 25 to 30 percent.

The school is located on 19 acres of land. Flagler offers 21 majors, 26 minors and two pre-professional programs in liberal arts, education and business.

The school is also known for its Deaf Education program.

The college competes in 12 varsity sports. Their team is called the Saints.

The campus has 15 buildings; some are located a couple of blocks from the center of the campus.

There are some ghost stories in Flagler too. Legend has it that Flagler’s wife haunts the 4th floor of the Ponce de Leon Hall, which is now the girl’s dormitory. The room where they say she hung herself is boarded up, but some students still peek through the keyhole. Also, at Flagler’s funeral, which was held in front of the hall of the college (the hall with tiled floors), they had the windows opened so his spirit could “fly away”  so he couldn’t be trapped there forever. As the janitor was passing by, he saw that all the windows were opened, so he went and closed them. At that moment, people felt a big gush of wind. They say that Flagler’s spirit bounced and landed on one of the tiles. And still, to this very day, there is the face of Henry Flagler, on a certain tile, on the front-left of  the college.

 

-Stephanie L.

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