2018 NSU Fact Book

that provide 104,000 square feet of office and classroom space. Facilities house the university’s financial operations; the regional campuses administration; human resources; the university call center; and Alumni Hall, a multipurpose auditorium. North Miami Beach Campus The 18-acre North Miami Beach Campus is home to dental medicine, family medicine, and optometry clinics operated by the Health Professions Division. Overall, the facility includes three buildings totaling approximately 230,000 square feet. Oceanographic Campus The Oceanographic Campus, which houses the Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography, occupies 10 acres within the Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park at Port Everglades in Hollywood. The facilities are composed of three original buildings and a modular encompassing 27,000 square feet. It also boasts the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Building—a state-of-the-art, 86,000-square-foot research facility. Space exists for offices, classrooms, a library, and research laboratories. The campus’s marina and proximity to the ocean is ideal for field studies. Partially funded by a $15-million grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Center of Excellence is the only facility in the country dedicated to the study, research, and preservation of coral reefs. It was completed in September 2012. NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale The NSU Art Museum 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. NSU also maintains space in the Museum Tower. The Museum Tower is the home of the Office of Advancement and Community Relations as well as a satellite office for the President. 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 high-speed Internet access to all campus sites. The NSU wireless network provides students with mobile and wireless network connectivity. The wireless network covers the university’s campuses throughout Florida and Puerto Rico. NSU is an equity member of the Florida LambdaRail (FLR), a not-for-profit, limited liability corporation composed of 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 and social science areas. Students, faculty, and staff have access to university computing resources including desktop and laptop computers and document printers and copiers. Numerous computer labs are conveniently located throughout the university’s facilities for student use. Administrative computing resources consist of multiple servers and numerous other application- specific Linux and Microsoft Systems. The university’s administrative operations are supported by the Ellucian Banner Application. 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 and World Wide Web-based tools. Microsoft Exchange email systems support all faculty and staff email services, while Microsoft Office 365 provides email services to NSU students. Faculty and staff are migrating to 5