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2000
President Ferrero received the American Psychological
Association’s Presidential Citation Award for his efforts
to expand and improve mental health services in
South Florida.
The American Psychological Association reaffirmed
the Center for Psychological Studies doctoral program
accreditation for another seven years.
The 5,000-square-foot Health Professions Division
Assembly Building that contains a 310-seat auditorium,
computer laboratory, and seminar room was completed.
Centralized university call centers were established at
University Park Plaza, in the Health Professions Division
Clinic, and at the Fischler Graduate School of Education
and Human Services.
Six shuttle buses were added to NSU’s fleet to provide
transportation throughout the 300-acre main campus for
students and faculty and staff members.
2001
The 325,000-square-foot Library, Research, and
Information Technology Center was dedicated. It is
a joint-use facility that resulted from an innovative
agreement between NSU and the Broward County
Board of County Commissioners. The new facility is the
largest library in Florida.
The United States Army selected NSU to be an
educational partner in
eArmyU
,
a consortium designed
to deliver online degree programs to soldiers.
The Family Center was renamed the Mailman Segal
Institute for Early Childhood Studies.
Ground was broken for the Jim & Jan Moran Family
Center Village and a $6 million challenge grant to the
center was announced by JM Family Enterprises, Inc.
The School of Social and Systemic Studies changed its
name to the Graduate School of Humanities and Social
Sciences.
The Shepard Broad Law Center launched the first online
master’s degree in health law for non-lawyers offered by
an accredited law school.
1998
The board of trustees named Ray Ferrero, Jr., as the
university’s fifth president.
George L. Hanbury II, Ph.D., was appointed executive
vice president and chief operating officer by Ray
Ferrero, Jr., J.D., NSU president.
NSU’s regional accreditation was reaffirmed by the
Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of
Schools for another 10 years.
The Fischler Center for the Advancement of Education
changed its name to the Fischler Graduate School of
Education and Human Services.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
Division II Management Council elected NSU to
provisional membership effective September 1, 1998.
The board of trustees approved construction of the
325,000-
square-foot Library, Research, and Information
Technology Center on the main campus.
1999
Nova Southeastern University celebrated its 35th
anniversary.
Construction began for the new Library, Research, and
Information Technology Center on the main campus. (A
joint-use facility with Broward County, it includes a full-
service library open to the public, electronic classrooms,
an auditorium, and exhibit areas. It represents a unique
concept of public/private use with the NSU Board of
Trustees and the Broward County Board of County
Commissioners each paying half of its costs.)
The School of Business and Entrepreneurship was
renamed the H. Wayne Huizenga Graduate School of
Business and Entrepreneurship and the board of trustees
approved construction of a new building for the school
on the main campus.
The School of Social and Systemic Studies began
the first Ph.D. program in dispute resolution offered
nationally by distance education.
The College of Osteopathic Medicine was ranked 38th
out of 144 medical schools nationally in the category
of primary care medical schools by
U.S. News &
World Report
.