in the top 100 with regard to Associate's conferred upon Hispanics or African Americans. Accreditations and approvals Seminole State College of Florida is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award associate and baccalaureate degrees. The college also has a number of program-specific accreditations or endorsements, including: Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) American Bar Association Approval Committee for Certificate Programs (ACCP) American Medical Association (AMA) Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management (CAHIIM) Education Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE) Committee on Accreditation for Respiratory Care (CARC) National Automotive Technicians Education Foundation, Inc. (NATEF) National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) National Kitchen and Bath Association (NKBA) U.S. Fire Administration, Fire and Emergency Services Higher Education (FESHE) Program Student life Seminole State offers over 40 clubs and organizations including the Environmental Club, the Hispanic Student Association, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and the African American Cultural Forum. The college also sponsors a student run Government Association that is the voice of the students. The school offers a healthy dose fine arts activities, with an art gallery on campus that showcases work by the students and a dramatic theatre that is open to the public. The Encore! Music Series presented by the school features performances by the Seminole State Gospel Choir and the Concert Chorale. Free speech A 2008 article by Marla Fisher in the journal Community College Week detailed free speech issues on campuses in California, North Carolina and Florida. The then named Seminole Community College was among those profiled. Fisher stated that "a student at Seminole Community College in Florida had been refused permission to pass out animal-rights brochures near a cafe on campus because, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), an administrator did not like the group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), and didn't want her to hand out literature near where people were eating." FIRE challenged Seminole State's free speech policies detailed in Fisher's 2008 article, and described the results in a 2005 press release, "Student Free to Protest Animal Cruelty Outside of 'Free Speech Zone'." FIRE contacted Seminole State in writing after "administrators failed to produce a written copy of the alleged tabling policy (prohibiting distribution of literature)." The FIRE