PERSPECTIVES 25th Anniversary - Fall-Winter 2018

2 Nova Southeastern University Dean’s Message STANLEY H. WILSON , Ed.D., PT, CEAS A TRUE APPRECIATION AND VALUE of one’s history is an essential feature of gained experiences that ensures a positive future. Fortunately, the Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences has been enriched by a very productive history. It is with that thought that the Office of the Dean would like to extend a special greeting to our readers of the 2018 summer-fall edition of Perspectives magazine as we celebrate the college’s silver anniversary. The faculty and staff members and administrators are proud to deliver this issue focusing on the fact that it has been 25 years since our college’s inception. Originally known as the College of Allied Health, the first classes of physician assistant and public health students were accepted in 1993. Today, the college, renamed the Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences in 2017, offers 29 degree programs, has more than 3,000 students, and has close to 200 full-time faculty and staff members and administrators. We are heartened not only by the phenomenal growth in number of programs, but in their remarkable quality. It must be stated, however, that many of the dynamics driving our growth and successes are directly attributable to our faculty and staff members, alumni, donors, and supporters, to whom I extend my sincerest thanks for having been an integral part of 25 years of outstanding dedication. Our college remains fully committed to excellence and readily grasps opportunities to innovate, effect constructive changes, and strengthen our existing systems. As we look to the future, we are prepared to adopt transformational principles that nurture and develop faculty members and students of academic and clinical distinction. We remain steadfast in our efforts to attain heights where our programs will be consistently characterized as innovative, distinctive, and preeminent. We value our past, appreciate our present, and excitedly look toward our future. ● “A people without knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.” —Marcus Garvey