2016 Fact Book

The Fort Lauderdale/Davie Campus The Fort Lauderdale/Davie Campus consists of 314 acres with general-purpose athletic fields and NCAA Division II-qualifying soccer and baseball fields. Facilities house the central administration offices; the Health Professions Division; the Farquhar Honors College; the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; the College of Engineering and Computing; the Shepard Broad College of Law; the College of Psychology; the H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship; the Mailman Segal Center for Human Development; the NSU University School (grades JK–12); the Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center; the Miami Dolphins Training Facility; the Don Taft University Center; the Rolling Hills Office Center; and University Park Plaza. During fiscal year 2014, the first floor of the Horvitz Administration Building was transformed into an inviting Welcome Center where students, families, and friends can visit and learn about the university. While they’re there, they can also visit the One- Stop Shop, Student Financial Services, Undergraduate Admissions, and more. Also included in the renovation was the relocation of Career Development and Academic Advising. A remodel to the International Students Department was also done for ease of access. The centralization of services provides for a more student centered facility. The state-of-the-art, 366,000-square-foot Don Taft University Center features three NCAA competition courts in the main arena, as well as two intramural courts, group fitness and instruction rooms, cardio and weight training areas, squash courts, a rock climbing wall, and the newly renovated Flight Deck Pub. The Performing and Visual Arts Wing of the Don Taft University Center includes state-of-the-art classrooms and facilities that support the division’s art, dance, music, and theatre majors. The Performing and Visual Arts Wing features • a 230-seat performance theater with full staging capacity for recitals, concerts, plays, films, and lectures • a 100-seat black box theater with flexible seating arrangements for multiple staging options • academic support facilities for the performing arts, including professional-caliber scene and costume shops; a scenic design lab; dance studios; choral and instrumental rehearsal rooms; music practice studios; and acoustic, percussion, and keyboard technology labs • visual arts classrooms that support painting, drawing, ceramics, and graphic design • a gallery for the display of private art collections, photography, and student artwork There is also an outdoor aquatic center with an Olympic-sized swimming pool and integrated dive well, as well as a dryland training facility. In addition, seven residence halls on the Fort Lauderdale/ Davie Campus serve undergraduate, graduate, health professions, and law students, with a capacity for housing nearly 1,500 students in approximately 207,000 square feet of living space. The Commons, a 525-bed residence hall, opened its doors to students in August 2007. There are also housing facilities specifically for graduate students. The Rolling Hills Graduate Apartment Complex can accommodate up to 373 graduate students in fully furnished, single and quad rooms. The Cultural Living Center has 135 furnished single and double apartments for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. University Park Plaza, just to the south of the Health Professions Division (HPD) complex, has 173,000 square feet of space with 137,000 square feet devoted to university office and classroom space. This includes the Lifelong Learning Institute, the Institute for Neuro- Immune Medicine, a 100-station microcomputer laboratory, a videoconferencing room, a state of the art nursing simulation lab, and the NSU Bookstore. NSU’s Health Professions Division complex is located at the northwest corner of the Fort Lauderdale/Davie Campus. The complex includes eight buildings totaling more than 540,000 square feet of space for administrative offices, classrooms, laboratories, the Health Professions Division Library, and a patient-services clinic. Also, there is a 600,000-square-foot parking structure with space for 2,000 vehicles. 3