North Miami Beach Campus
The 18-acre North Miami Beach campus is home to
the Abraham S. Fischler School of Education; dental
medicine, family medicine, and optometry clinics
operated by the Health Professions Division; the Teacher
Imaginarium, a free store for teachers; the South Florida
School Choice Resource Center; and the Center for
Assessment and Intervention. Overall, the facility
includes four buildings totaling 266,500 square feet.
Oceanographic Center
The Oceanographic Center occupies 10 acres adjacent
to John U. Lloyd State Park at Port Everglades in Fort
Lauderdale. The center’s facilities are composed of three
permanent buildings encompassing almost 27,000 square
feet of office, classroom, library, and laboratory space.
These are supplemented by two modular buildings. The
center’s proximity to the ocean is ideal for launching
field studies.
A new, state-of-the-art, 87,000-square-foot research
facility is being built on the Oceanographic Center
campus. Partially funded by a $15-million grant from
the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the
facility will be the only one in the country dedicated to
the study, research, and preservation of coral reefs. The
new Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Ecosystems
Science Research Facility is expected to be completed
by May 2012.
Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale
The Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale was founded in
1958,
and has been housed since 1986 in a distinguished
modernist building designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes.
The museum building encompasses 94,500 square feet
on three levels, of which 35,000 square feet is exhibition
space used for the display of art. The adjacent Horvitz
auditorium, which contains 256 seats, is used for a
variety of presentations and performances, including
lectures, films, concerts, and theatrical events.
The Studio School of the Museum of Art | Fort
Lauderdale will undergo a major expansion during the
coming year. The new facility will provide studio space
for a curriculum that will include classes in painting,
drawing, sculpture, photography, ceramics, design, and
computer arts. Classes are geared to adults as well as to
elementary and secondary school children.
Technology Facilities
The university maintains an extensive information
technology network for teaching and learning, research,
and administrative computing. Comprehensive fiber-
optic and wireless networks provide connectivity for user
access. A dedicated wide area network (WAN) supports
high-speed access to central computing resources from
all campuses. NSU WINGS, the university’s wireless
networking system, provides students with mobile
network connectivity in more than 45 buildings and
four exterior locations covering all of the university’s
campuses and student educational centers throughout
Florida. High-speed Internet access is provided to both
on-campus and remote sites.
NSU is an equity member of the Florida LambdaRail
(
FLR), a not-for-profit limited liability corporation
currently composed of 12 public and private not-for-
profit Florida universities. The FLR operates a statewide
high-performance fiber-optic network infrastructure that
utilizes next-generation network technologies, protocols,
and services. The FLR provides NSU with high-
speed commercial Internet services and connectivity
to advanced regional and national networks, such as
the National LambdaRail (NLR) and the Abilene
Internet2 backbone. The FLR has significantly enhanced
university research and distance-education capabilities
and allows NSU faculty and staff members, researchers,
and students to collaborate with colleagues around the
world on leading-edge research projects.
Students, faculty and staff members, and administrators
have access to university computing resources from
desktop and laptop computers, while numerous
microcomputer labs are conveniently located throughout
university facilities for student use. Administrative
computing resources consist of multiple Oracle
Enterprise servers and numerous other application-
specific Linux and Microsoft Oracle. The university’s
administrative operations are supported by the SunGard
Banner system. Additional administrative systems
include imaging systems; campus card systems; facilities
systems; procurement systems; time/effort; and medical,
dental, optometry, and mental health clinic systems.
Multiple Oracle servers support academic applications,
World Wide Web-based tools, and the university’s
email system. Synchronous and asynchronous Web
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