Kevin Nicholson

Stetson University is a private university with four colleges and schools located across the I-4 corridor in Central Florida, United States, with the primary undergraduate campus is located in DeLand. In the 2012 U.S. News and World Report's guide to America's Best Colleges, Stetson ranks third in... the category of Southern Masters-granting institutions. Other recent recognitions include being ranked No. 23 nationally in Washington Monthly magazine’s “Top 50 Master’s Universities.” The School of Music was named to Parade Magazine's national "College A-List" in the category highlighting Arts Programs and the School of Business Administration was named one of the nation's 300 best by Princeton Review. Stetson, the only university affiliated with the Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation in Florida, is also nationally recognized for its commitment to service and social justice-based community engagement and community-engaged learning. According to Gilbert Lycan, a Stetson history professor who wrote the university's official centennial history in 1983, Stetson University is Florida's first university, public or private.
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Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. The 2011 census recorded more than 603,000 people in the city, making it the eighth largest among Canadian cities. The metropolitan area, with more than 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan... area in the country and the most populous in Western Canada. With 5,249 people per square kilometre , the City of Vancouver is the most densely populated Canadian municipality among those with 5,000 residents or more. Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada, with 52% for whom English is not their first language. The original settlement, named Gastown, grew around the Hastings Mill logging sawmill and a nearby tavern, both established in 1867. Enlarging to become the townsite of Granville, with the announcement that the railhead would reach the site it was renamed "Vancouver" and incorporated as a city in 1886. By 1887, the transcontinental railway was extended to the city to take advantage of its large natural seaport, which soon became a vital link in a trade route between the Orient, Eastern Canada, and London.
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