2019 NSU Fact book

2019 FACT BOOK 37 programs. The $2.7-million grant will support the devel- opment of programs in the Fischler School of Education and Human Services that enhance graduate student engagement, retention, and success. 2010 • As part of the board of trustees’ presidential succession plan, Ray Ferrero, Jr., who was then president, became university chancellor and CEO, and George Hanbury, who was then executive vice president and COO, became university president and COO. • The Division of Applied Interdisciplinary Studies was created. This new division encompasses the Center for Psychological Studies, the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Mailman Segal Institute for Early Childhood Studies, and the Criminal Justice Institute. • A new, state-of-the-art research facility was approved to be built on the Oceanographic Center campus at John U. Lloyd Beach State Park in Dania Beach, Florida. Partially funded by a $15-million grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the facility will be the only one in the country dedicated to the study, research, and preservation of coral reefs. The new Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Ecosystems Science was opened in September 2012. • The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching awarded Nova Southeastern University the Community Engagement Classification, which acknowledges significant commitment to and demonstration of community engagement. NSU was 1 of 15 colleges and universities in the United States selected for the Community Engagement Classification award in 2010, and 1 of only 311 colleges and universities nationally to receive the award since inception of the classification. 2011 • George L. Hanbury, II, Ph.D., took office as the sixth president and chief executive officer of Nova South- eastern University. He led the university to adopt a single shared Vision 2020 for establishing NSU as a premier, private, not-for-profit university of quality and distinction that engages all students and whose alumni serve with integrity and commitment. • In addition to receiving Carnegie’s Community Engagement Classification, NSU was elevated from Doctoral Research University (DRU) to Research University—high research activity (RU/H), reflecting two of its core values of scholarship and research. NSU is 1 of 37 universities in the nation with both the Carnegie classification of high research activity and community engagement. 2012 • In 2012, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) granted accreditation without qualifications to all degree programs within Nova Southeastern University’s Abraham S. Fischler School of Education and to education-related pro- grams within NSU’s Center for Psychological Studies. This means NSU’s education programs have been vet- ted at the highest levels for quality and the ability to produce effective, high-achieving educators. Including NSU, NCATE currently accredits more than 650 col- leges of education. NCATE also represents more than three million teachers, teacher educators, content specialists, and local and state policy makers commit- ted to quality teaching. • In September 2012, the Oceanographic Center used a $15-million federal stimulus grant to open the nation’s largest dedicated coral reef research center—the 86,000-square-foot NSU Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Ecosystems Research. The completed center cost $50 million. Students, scientists, and faculty and staff members can come to the center from all corners of the globe with the common goal of learning from the ocean’s diverse ecosystem of coral reefs and myriad fish and other marine life. The grand opening celebration included a keynote speech by former