The college charter stipulates that each board of trustees member be active in a local, generally non-institutional Church of Christ.

This resulted in a schism and the development of non-institutional Churches of Christ, which do not offer financing to educational institutions.

[1] Throughout the 1950s, the majority of the students were older men who wished to become preachers; according to David Edwin Harrell, the school "became something of a training ground for a cadre of non-institutional leaders".

The name change was fueled in part by the controversy that the word Christian was only used as a noun and never as an adjective in the New Testament.

[3] In 1982, Bob F. Owen became president of Florida College, the position he held until 1991, when Charles G. "Colly" Caldwell III, assumed office.

Next to the gym is Florida College Academy, an affiliated private school for students pre-kindergarten through ninth grade.

The main campus includes one of the oldest buildings in the city: Sutton Hall, built around 1922 as the clubhouse for the Temple Terrace Golf and Country Club.

Economic collapse in 1926 forced their closure as recreational leisure facilities and the property passed to the Florida Bible Institute during the Great Depression.

Boswell Hall, which holds 320 beds, is five stories tall, and is said to be the tallest building in old Temple Terrace with a top floor view that looks out over the old city as well as the Hillsborough River.

The newly renovated building, now known as "College Hall", houses women of junior and senior standing.

Instead, the school gains name recognition by offering 21 one-week summer camps annually in locations across the United States.

[1] Brief devotional chapel services are held on weekdays during the academic calendar year, which all students are required to attend.

Students are expected to avoid immoral environments such as "restaurants known for the immodest dress of staff" and "any establishment that serves alcohol and checks identifications at [the] door.

[14]: 11  Residence halls are segregated by gender with each off limits to members of the opposite sex except in lobbies during posted hours.

The 2021–22 men's basketball team won the Continental Athletic Conference (CAC) Championship en route to the NAIA National Tournament.