2016 Fact Book

23 1992 Stephen Feldman was selected as the third president of Nova University. The Leo Goodwin Sr. Hall, new home of the Shepard Broad Law Center, opened on the Fort Lauderdale/Davie Campus. The Leo Goodwin Sr. Residence Hall, the university’s fifth student dormitory, was dedicated. Nova University’s first building, the Rosenthal Student Center, was expanded to include a dining hall, full kitchen, bookstore, and administrative offices. 1993 Southeastern University of the Health Sciences added the College of Allied Health and admitted its charter class in the Physician Assistant Program. The Dolphins Training Center, a new training facility for the Miami Dolphins, was completed on the Fort Lauderdale/Davie Campus. A new wing housing the Bernice and Jack LaBonte Institute for Hearing, Language, and Speech was added to the Baudhuin Oral School. 1994 Southeastern University of the Health Sciences merged with Nova University to form Nova Southeastern University (NSU). Ovid C. Lewis was selected as the fourth president of NSU. The William and Norma Horvitz Administration Building was dedicated. 1995 Based on its fall 1995 headcount enrollment, NSU became the largest independent university in the state of Florida. The College of Allied Health started a Master of Public Health Program for students working in other health professions. NSU acquired 10 acres of land contiguous with the southwest corner of the Fort Lauderdale/Davie Campus for future expansion. Initially, the site will be used for a nature trail in a park-like setting. 1996 The Maxwell Maltz building, housing the Center for Psychological Studies and its Community Mental Health Center, was dedicated. Planning began to move the Fischler Center for the Advancement of Education to university facilities in North Miami Beach. The board of trustees approved addition of the College of Dental Medicine to HPD. The NSU University School was selected as a National BlueRibbonSchool ofExcellenceby theU.S.Department of Education. The Oceanographic Center began a cooperative project with the town of Davie to convert a water treatment facility into an aquaculture research farm. The Shepard Broad Law Center began a part-time evening division J.D. program. 1997 The Health Professions Division (HPD) moved from facilities in North Miami Beach to new facilities on the Fort Lauderdale/Davie Campus. The new complex encompasses 365,000 square feet of classroom, laboratory, clinic, and office space along with a 470,000-square-foot parking structure. The College of Osteopathic Medicine won the 1997 American Medical Student Association’s Paul R. Wright Excellence in Medical Education Award, the first osteopathic medical school in the U.S. to be selected. The College of Dental Medicine admitted its charter class. The Fischler Center for the Advancement of Education moved from leased facilities in Davie to newly renovated university-owned facilities in North Miami Beach. Facilities opened in University Park Plaza adjacent to the Fort Lauderdale/Davie Campus. The facility houses classrooms, a microcomputer laboratory, the Institute for Learning in Retirement, and the Offices of Licensure and State Relations, Grants and Contracts, and Continuing Education.