as many departments and colleges were added, including Business, Journalism (discontinued in 1959), Library Science, Nursing, and Social Welfare. Strozier Library (1956), and Tully Gymnasium (1956) were built at this time.
=== Activism ===
==== Civil rights ====
Florida State University ranked third in the United States for free speech and thought in a ranking released in 2024 by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
After many years as a whites-only university, in 1962, Maxwell Courtney became the first African-American undergraduate student admitted to Florida State. Fred Flowers joined the FSU baseball team as the first African-American athlete in university history in 1965. In 1966 Lenny Hall became the first African-American basketball player for Florida State. In 1968 Calvin Patterson became the first African-American player for the university football team.
During the 1960s and 1970s Florida State University became a center for student activism especially in the areas of racial integration, …
