Summer, Shared 2020
From career-defining internships to original student-faculty research, Tars share their top accomplishments from summer 2020.
Cool Class: Writing Books for & with Children
This honors course pairs students with preschoolers to explore the fine art of children’s literature—and the takeaways extend far beyond the creative process.
Online Teaching Still Requires Personal Touch
In an article for the Orlando Sentinel, English professor Matthew Forsythe discusses how personal relationships are more important than ever amid challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wild Wonders
Service and adventure converge on an Immersion experience in the Everglades, where hands-on learning leads to lasting impact.
What It’s Like ... to Debate a Defining Moment in History
In a debate hosted by the Jamaican Association for Debating and Empowerment, Gabby Shepherd ’22 lends her voice to the complex fight for equality and justice.
Undergraduate Research
Gorres ’21 Earns Goldwater Scholarship
Isaac Gorres ’21 has earned a Goldwater Scholarship, the preeminent undergraduate award in the fields of mathematics, engineering, and the natural sciences.
Engaged Learning from a Safe Distance
In the face of the COVID-19 crisis, Rollins responds with deep care, quick resolve, and close-knit scholarship to deliver our signature brand of engaged, personalized learning while prioritizing the health and safety of our community.
Heller ’21 Named 2020 Newman Fellow
Eliane Heller ’21 has earned Campus Compact’s 2020 Newman Civic Fellowship, which recognizes and supports students committed to achieving social change.
What It’s Like ... to Perform in Front of Millions
At Rollins, music majors like Chadonné Whiskey ’20 enjoy unparalleled opportunities to hone their craft, connect with audiences, and learn from masters in music.
Rollins Joins LECOM as an Early Acceptance Affiliate College
Rollins’ Pre-Health Professions Advising Program has partnered with the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine to provide early acceptance to qualified students.
Study Abroad
Rollins Ranks in Top 10 for Study Abroad
For the past three years, the College has ranked among the top 10 master’s-granting institutions in the country for the percentage of students who study abroad.
Undergraduate Research
Two Decades of Discovery
Rollins’ Student-Faculty Collaborative Scholarship Program is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. To mark this milestone, we’re looking back at 20 of the program’s most significant accomplishments.
Investing in Opportunity
The second cohort of the Rollins Professional Fellows funded internship program proves there’s no substitute for real-world, hands-on experience.
The Liberal Arts of Leadership
Five executives share how a well-rounded education at Rollins prepared them for success, and what they’re looking for in the next generation of graduates.
Return Engagement
The Rollins way of doing things set these seven alumni professors up for postgraduate success—and pulled them back to teach.
Secret Code
Success in today’s high-tech workforce requires more than expert coding chops. Just ask Rollins’ 2018 computer science grads, whose 21st-century skills are helping them thrive in some of today’s coolest careers.
Models of Mentorship
The new Day With a Champ program adds to Rollins’ growing portfolio of programs aimed at developing powerful partnerships between alumni and students.
Up to the Highest Heights
It all started with a Disney medley about flying. Now Jamey Ray ’06 and Voctave are soaring.
Cool Class: Researching American History
Rollins students explore the history of diversity and inclusion in education and at Rollins through the Pathways to Diversity grant.
Stronger Together
At Rollins, our diverse group of community engagement courses delivers on the College’s commitment to service, synthesizing classroom learning with real-world experiences in our own backyard.
Cool Class: The Art & Science of Cell Death
Inside the innovative Rollins course that fuses biology, technology, sculpture, and abstract thinking in unconventional ways.
Groundwork for Greatness
From curating a contemporary art exhibition to organizing logistics for race day, the crop of summer 2018 internships provided Rollins students with real-world experiences that were as diverse as they were productive.
Allies in Inquiry
This past summer, students and faculty joined forces in tackling some of their fields’ toughest issues as part of Rollins’ Student-Faculty Collaborative Scholarship Program.
Fledgling Fellows
A new funded internship pilot program aimed at delivering the best in hands-on experience puts Rollins students on the front lines of tackling some of today’s most pressing issues.
Service Learning Study Abroad Undergraduate Research Conferences
Summer, Shared 2018
From life-changing international adventures and career-defining internships to National Science Foundation-funded research, Tars share their top accomplishments from summer 2018.
15 Rollins Students Selected for U.N.-backed Millennium Fellowship
The prestigious fellowship is a semester-long leadership development program that challenges students to address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Rollins Announces New Social Innovation Major
This fall, the College will launch a new major in social innovation, giving Rollins students yet another way to make a difference in the world.
In Concert
A budding partnership between the Rollins music department and Full Sail is paying dividends for students from the neighboring institutions.
What It’s Like ... to Debate a Movement That’s Changing the World
Once again, the Rollins Great Debate team takes home the trophy—and after a week of listening and learning, a whole lot more.
Liberal Arts in Action
Many of our industrious students cut their winter breaks short to participate in Intersession, a weeklong course dedicated to an intriguing topic not typically covered during the regular semester.
Clinical Trials
For a decade, an intensive shadowing program at Florida Hospital has helped prepare Rollins undergrads for careers in medicine.
Better Together
Sequencing the DNA of sea stars. Exploring authenticity in religion. Examining neurons of worms to better understand them in people. These are just a few of the more than two dozen research projects that Rollins students and professors partnered on this past summer.
Study Abroad
Water Works
Science and service converge in a Rollins field study that has helped bring clean water to the Dominican Republic for more than two decades.
Course Spotlight: The Global Economy
Students explore the economic relationship between the developed world and developing countries by partnering with a local direct-trade coffee shop.
Classes
Course Spotlight: Biosphere
Students in this core environmental studies course are learning that if you want to save the world, you have to get your hands dirty.
Course Spotlight: Film as Art
Behind the scenes of the Rollins class designed to instill a wider appreciation of films by allowing students to engage with more than 50 features, shorts, and documentaries during the Florida Film Festival.
Recovering a Hidden History
Students’ award-winning website preserves stories from an African-American newspaper published more than a century ago in Winter Park.
Undergraduate Research
DeLucia Earns Goldwater Scholarship
Alyssa DeLucia ’18 has earned a Goldwater Scholarship, a prestigious award reserved for undergraduate students who intend to pursue careers in the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering.
Classes
4 Reasons Why a Rollins Intersession Course is a Must-Try Winter Experience
If you only take courses during fall and spring semesters, you’re missing out.
What’s the Big Idea?
Winter Park Magazine’s Randy Noles explores the Master of Liberal Studies program at Rollins College’s Hamilton Holt School.
Classes
Course Spotlight: AfroFantastic: Black Imagination and Agency in the American Experience
A new course for first-year students culminates with an exhibition at Rollins’ Cornell Fine Arts Museum.
Real Clients, Real Rewards
Five students recently earned statewide recognition for helping local clients develop strategic communication plans.
Classes
Course Spotlight: Real World Economics
Students at Rollins are getting a head start on career success while helping local high schoolers do the same.
Service Learning
Restoration With a View
From February 27 – March 5, a group of Rollins students went on an alternative spring break Immersion to Moab, Utah, for a service learning experience of a lifetime.
Center of It All
In January, Rollins officially opened Kathleen W. Rollins Hall, the College’s new headquarters for applied liberal arts learning.
Room to Grow
Within the new Kathleen W. Rollins Hall, interdisciplinary learning takes place in high-tech, sun-drenched spaces created for collaboration.
Sound Investment
Rollins’ Gateway Fellows, a funded internship program that just received a $2 million pledge to its endowment from Trustee Campbell Brown ’90, is delivering Rollins students the best in hands-on experience.
Topical Teaching
Eight faculty have teamed up to create a course, Understanding COVID-19, in which students are learning in real time about the pandemic across multiple disciplines.
Cool Class: Sustainability Beyond the Classroom
Go inside this series of linked environmental studies courses to learn how Rollins students are exploring sustainability issues right at the source.
9 Reasons Rollins Delivers the Best in Study Abroad
From the variety of once-in-a-lifetime experiences to preparation for the world’s most prestigious scholarships, find out why Rollins is one of the country’s best colleges for study abroad.
Real World Experience Right on Campus
Whether it’s managing social media content for the College’s Office of Marketing or running the box office at the Annie Russell Theatre, on-campus student employment opportunities at Rollins yield big results.
The Artrepreneurs
Armed with arts degrees, these Rollins grads have harnessed their creative passions to launch successful businesses in everything from organic spirits to footwear.
Spontaneous Preparation
It sounds counterintuitive, but 14 students spent the summer researching how best to stage an improvised play.