A private university in , oddly enough, Jacksonville Florida.
In the beginning Jacksonville University was an all womans school dominated by the fine arts and general liberal arts education. As the school slowly grew the board of trustees wanted to cultivate a "Harvard of the South" image.
Today, Jacksonville University is a coed university of around 2000 students offering a general liberal arts education dominated by the Fine Arts department at Harvard prices.
Other than that, the university has no distinguishing features or achievements other than the campus is reasonably pretty and the city of Jacksonville is passable a place as any to spend your time while going to college.
Jacksonville University is referred to by its students as simply JU. It is referred to by the faculty as " The Hardest University In The World to Get Fired From"
It is the college students in and around the Jacksonville area. " went to once" or briefly considered while attending the famous JU Student Center Keg parties, before they sobered up of course.
Like most colleges, JU has a bunch of fraternities...rah rah rah. Unlike most universities JU has no sports programs to speak of and almost no community support for the programs that do exist. JU had a brief fling at national exposure in men's basketball in the early 70's. Like all things JU, the team lost to UCLA in the NCAA tournament final and rapidly faded to obscurity as the citizens of the fair city of Jacksonville droped JU like a bad habit.
Other than that...nothing.
JU could have been a great school except that the short sighted Board of Trustees have a good comfortable thing going as do the faculty. Just as a sports or academic program seems to be taking off, the Board pulls the rug out and puts the money back in the fine arts department.
As they say, JU put the "ME" in mediocrity.
Go Dolphins.
In the beginning Jacksonville University was an all womans school dominated by the fine arts and general liberal arts education. As the school slowly grew the board of trustees wanted to cultivate a "Harvard of the South" image.
Today, Jacksonville University is a coed university of around 2000 students offering a general liberal arts education dominated by the Fine Arts department at Harvard prices.
Other than that, the university has no distinguishing features or achievements other than the campus is reasonably pretty and the city of Jacksonville is passable a place as any to spend your time while going to college.
Jacksonville University is referred to by its students as simply JU. It is referred to by the faculty as " The Hardest University In The World to Get Fired From"
It is the college students in and around the Jacksonville area. " went to once" or briefly considered while attending the famous JU Student Center Keg parties, before they sobered up of course.
Like most colleges, JU has a bunch of fraternities...rah rah rah. Unlike most universities JU has no sports programs to speak of and almost no community support for the programs that do exist. JU had a brief fling at national exposure in men's basketball in the early 70's. Like all things JU, the team lost to UCLA in the NCAA tournament final and rapidly faded to obscurity as the citizens of the fair city of Jacksonville droped JU like a bad habit.
Other than that...nothing.
JU could have been a great school except that the short sighted Board of Trustees have a good comfortable thing going as do the faculty. Just as a sports or academic program seems to be taking off, the Board pulls the rug out and puts the money back in the fine arts department.
As they say, JU put the "ME" in mediocrity.
Go Dolphins.
by gfeet June 23, 2009
Get the Jacksonville University mug.Perfect <333333
by Madison double you May 29, 2019
Get the Jackson Bendis mug.Related Words
by Hannibal March 29, 2003
Get the lake jackson handshake mug.An awkward action done at the end of a date. Usually associated with a fist pump or a high five. The action is totally unexpected to the receiver of the mark jackson, and comes natural to the person doing it. The person giving the mark jackson is blissfully unaware of the action, and as a result has no idea that the action resulted in a total loss of social respect from the person's peers.
John: Did you hear what happened at the end of Heather's date?
Connor: No, did she kiss him? It was only the first date
John: Dude she told me that he said good bye and gave her a fist pump!
Connor: Oh man she just got Mark Jacksoned!!!
Connor: No, did she kiss him? It was only the first date
John: Dude she told me that he said good bye and gave her a fist pump!
Connor: Oh man she just got Mark Jacksoned!!!
by Jate77q August 24, 2010
Get the Mark Jackson mug.by theepicpeenlord69 March 23, 2021
Get the dirty michael jackson mug.To describe an object
Ex) give me that bad Jackson right there!
Ex) ew look at this bad Jackson I just pulled out of my nose!
To talk about a gay man named Nick.
Ex) nick is a bad Jackson.
Ex) give me that bad Jackson right there!
Ex) ew look at this bad Jackson I just pulled out of my nose!
To talk about a gay man named Nick.
Ex) nick is a bad Jackson.
by Tory dubbs November 6, 2012
Get the Bad Jackson mug.an awesome city on northern Florida that has an awesome band scene and rad beaches. once you go Jax you never go back. Jacksonville is in Duval county. and the 904 area. the stereotype is that Jacksonvillians are all rednecks and like NASCAR. .....honestly...thats really funny.
it is true though that the majority are republicans. Jacksonville has 2 top ranking school in the top 10 schools of the country. the rest are..so/so.
To bad Nease isn't in Jax or we would have 3. Jacksonville has an awesome team called the Jaguars. (est. 1993)
it is true though that the majority are republicans. Jacksonville has 2 top ranking school in the top 10 schools of the country. the rest are..so/so.
To bad Nease isn't in Jax or we would have 3. Jacksonville has an awesome team called the Jaguars. (est. 1993)
person 1: dude i just came back from Jacksonville and i wanna go back so bad!
person 2: lucky! i wanna go to the 904!
person 1: i saw some awesome local bands perfom. dude they were awesome!
person 2: next time you go to Jacksonville, TAKE ME!
person 2: lucky! i wanna go to the 904!
person 1: i saw some awesome local bands perfom. dude they were awesome!
person 2: next time you go to Jacksonville, TAKE ME!
by 904 RPRSNT December 21, 2008
Get the Jacksonville mug.