36 NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY Historical Highlights 2014 • In December, NSU’s Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy Program received full accreditation for the maximum number of years allowed, with zero stipulations, from COAMFTE. • Construction on NSU’s Center for Collaborative Research (CCR) began and is to be completed in 2016. This facility will provide wet labs for many of NSU’s innovative researchers, as well as a General Clinical Research Center—an outpatient facility that will provide a centralized clinical research infrastructure to benefit investigators in multiple disciplines. The CCR will also house NSU’s Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine; Rumbaugh-Goodwin Institute for Cancer Research; Emil Buehler Research Center for Engineering, Science, and Mathematics; and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). • The Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Building on NSU’s Oceanographic Campus was named in recognition of Guy Harvey’s longtime support for scholarships and research. • NSU’s Energy Plant was named the Robert S. Lafferty, Sr. Central Energy Plant. • NSU’s Oceanographic Center received approximately $8.5 million from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI). The university is 1 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 broaden the range of students pursuing degrees in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, and prepare them for careers in these growing sectors and postbaccalaureate 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 cornerstone 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 programs to attract the best and brightest under- graduate 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 colleges; 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 worldrenowned Karolinska Institutet (KI), putting it at the forefront for conducting pioneering, cell-based, biomedical research. • 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 Committee for Quality Assurance as an accredited Patient-Centered Medical Home for using evidence-based, patientcentered approaches that focus on highly coordinated 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
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