The Winter Park Institute, located in the Osceola Lodge on Interlachen Avenue, brings scholars, leaders, and artists from diverse fields of disciplines and expertise to the Rollins campus for symposiums, seminars, lectures, interviews, exhibits, readings, and master classes that are always free and open to the public.[3] Following the legacy began by President Hamilton Holt and continued by President Hugh McKean,[4] the Institute launched in the fall of 2008, the first guest being[5] U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins, who has returned every year since.