2019 NSU Fact book

2019 FACT BOOK 35 • The United States Army selected NSU to be an educa- tional 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. 2002 • The board of trustees approved a name change from the Farquhar Center for Undergraduate Studies to the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences. • The undergraduate business majors were moved to the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship. • Construction began for new facilities for the Orlando Student Educational Center in the new Mall at Millenia. • NSU College of Osteopathic Medicine received a grant from the U.S. Public Health Service that supports the establishment of the first pediatric residency in Broward and Palm Beach counties. • NSU was approved for active membership as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association effective September 1, 2002, as announced by the NCAA Division II Membership Committee. • Nova Southeastern University accepted an invitation to join the Sunshine State Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (Division II) beginning with the 2002–03 academic year. • In fall 2002, the university had the largest annual increase in student enrollment (13 percent) since it merged with Southeastern University of the Health Sciences in 1994. 2003 • The new 110,000-square-foot Jim & Jan Moran Family Center Village housing the Mailman Segal Institute for Early Childhood Studies was dedicated. • The new 261,000-square-foot Carl DeSantis Building housing the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship and the Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences was dedicated. • In honor of his generosity, NSU’s library was renamed the Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center after developer Alvin Sherman. 2004 • Ground was broken for construction of the new 366,000-square-foot University Center. Planned features include a sports arena, fitness facilities, The Student Union and Resource Center, food and beverage services, and a performing arts facility. • The Shepard Broad Law Center celebrated its 30th anniversary. • The NSU University School’s Middle School was dedi- cated as the Joanne and Edward Dauer Middle School Building in honor of the Dauer family’s lasting support and contributions to the NSU University School. • NSU hosted a visit and conferred an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters on His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet. During the visit, His Holiness blessed a Buddhist Prayer Wheel, donated by Albert Miniaci, that will be on permanent display in the Sherman Library. • Frederick Lippman, R.Ph., Ed.D., was installed as the new HPD chancellor after the passing of Morton Terry, D.O., founding chancellor of NSU’s Health Professions Division. 2005 • NSU was designated a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the U.S. National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.