2021 NSU Fact Book

2021 FACT BOOK 41 • NSU’s Oceanographic Center received approximately $8.5 million from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI). The university is one of 12 organizations selected to receive part of $140 million for continued research in the area of oil spills and response to them. • The university received two Title V grants totaling approximately $7 million to help increase the number of Hispanic and other minority students pursuing degrees in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, and prepare them for careers in these growing sectors and post- baccalaureate computer science-related degrees. • Florida’s Agency for Healthcare Administration issued its approval for HCA East Florida’s application to relocate Plantation General Hospital to NSU’s Fort Lauderdale/Davie Campus. The hospital will be the anchor tenant in the Academical Village. As a corner- stone of this project, HCA began constructing an emergency room at NSU’s University Park Plaza, which is set to open in mid-2015. 2015 • In 2015, NSU restructured its colleges, schools, and centers (renaming several) with the goal of maximizing and leveraging graduate and professional degree pro- grams to attract the best and brightest undergraduate students. As a result, all of the degree programs and initiatives housed within the former Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences were repositioned to other NSU col- leges; colleges established academic discipline-based departments; and two new colleges were established. • The university launched the new NSU Cell Therapy Institute, an international collaboration with prominent medical research scientists from Sweden’s world- renowned Karolinska Institutet (KI), putting it at the forefront for conducting pioneering, cell-based, bio- medical research. • NSU tied for 10th in U.S. News & World Report ’s Campus Ethnic Diversity rankings for the 2014–15 school year. NSU is the largest private, not-for-profit institution in the United States that meets the U.S. Department of Education’s criteria as a Hispanic- serving Institution. The university awards more doctoral and professional degrees to Hispanics and other minorities than any other university in the United States, according to a 2015 study released by the publication Diverse: Issues in Higher Education . Additionally, NSU is second only to Stanford Uni- versity in California for professional degrees awarded to African Americans, according to the publication’s September 24, 2015, issue. • The Economist and Brookings Institute released two analyses of college graduates’ salaries 10 years after they began their pursuit of higher education. NSU respectively ranked in the 77th and 76th percentile nationally. • NSU’s online graduate criminal justice program was ranked 22nd in the country by U.S. News & World Report . • NSU medical clinics implemented the medical home model and were recognized by the National Com- mittee for Quality Assurance as an accredited Patient- Centered Medical Home for using evidence-based, patient-centered approaches that focus on highly coor- dinated care and long-term, participative relationships. • NSU’s Biomedical Informatics Program was ranked number 6 out of the top 25 in the United States and the highest in Florida by BestMedicalDegrees.com . • U.S. News & World Report ranked the top online graduate programs for veterans, and NSU’s Criminal Justice program was ranked in a tie for 21st. • NSU’s Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.) Program received accreditation by the NASPAA Commission on Peer Review and Accreditation and is listed on the Annual Roster of Accredited Programs in conformity with NASPAA standards. The H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship, home to the M.P.A. program, celebrated reaching 40,000 alumni. • The Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography, created through NSU’s realignment, was named in recognition of the philanthropic support from the Halmos Family Foundation. NSU’s law library was named the Panza Maurer Law Library to honor generous scholarship support from attorneys and NSU alumni Thomas Panza and Susan Horovitz Maurer.