Fall 2015 Perspectives

10 • NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY After three years of building bridges, educating, and assessing their work, they received a $150,000 grant to develop the Coalition for Research and Education Against Trafficking and Exploitation (CREATE) within the College of Health Care Sciences. “A major goal of CREATE is to prevent human trafficking through education and research at the local, national, and international levels,” said Kent. “CREATE is also building collaborative relationships among NSU academic units and with external community partners to offer services that will improve the quality of life for victims and survivors of labor and sex trafficking.” In support of research, the college offers the CHCS Research Academy, which is designed to prepare quality clinicians to expand their research skills. Faculty members from any of the college’s degree programs are invited to participate. As they build and flex their research muscles, the participating faculty members engage with their colleagues around topics that interest them. The academy is an inten- tional incubator for new research projects to emerge that are transdisciplinary and bridge the geographic chasms that can often impede interprofessional collaboration and learning. DIVERSITY NSU is a minority-majority campus situated in a community that is increasingly diverse. At our various orientation sessions, students are encouraged to seek out the differences in their classmates and show intellectual curiosity regarding the cultural, religious, socioeconomic, physical ability, and generational differences that exist among themselves. These differences are representative of the variances they will see in their future patients. nother community service is the NSU Fall Clinic at the main campus, where students and faculty members from seven professions come together with the single goal of helping patients decrease their likelihood of falling. A