H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship Campaign Priorities

Priorities include: • Pathway scholarships to provide academically gifted and financially challenged students from South Florida an opportunity to attend NSU and receive mentorship. • Offering every business student a paid internship experience in the not-for-profit sector. • The Razor’s Edge Shark Cage challenge, designed for students who demonstrate outstanding entrepreneurial potential. Students present their business plans for a chance to win a stipend for a full year’s tuition. OUR FACULTY | $9 MILLION Recognizing that endowed chair opportunities are the highest academic award that NSU can bestow on a faculty member, Huizenga College of Business is looking to attract and retain the most talented faculty members. Endowing chairs will allow us to continue to enrich the academic environment that attracts the brightest students, propels research, and creates opportunities for collaboration. Priorities include endowed chairs for: To express our gratitude for your extraordinary commitment to NSU, we offer a variety of naming, recognition, and dedication opportunities to support your unique philanthropic passions and goals. Opportunities can be designed and tailored to reflect the intention and level of your gift. NAMING OPPORTUNITIES • Accountancy • Entrepreneurship • Finance • Marketing • Public administration • Real estate development 21st-CENTURY EDUCATION | $15 MILLION Preparing students for success upon graduation, HCBE will enhance its academic programs by establishing more experiential, innovative learning opportunities, developing three specialized schools, and expanding collaboration with the business community. • Experiential Learning Summer Institute —An intensive, boot camp aimed at accelerating student development in core, school-to-work competency skills. Students would be assigned to work teams in local partnered businesses to engage in real-time assignments designed to impact that company’s growth potential. • Shark Street Trading Floor —A 30-terminal, Bloomberg-modeled trading floor to provide real-world experience to students in finance and other related business disciplines. • Mako Business and Technology Innovation Zone —A program to help students advance ideas from concept to market. Alumni will mentor and provide assistance in the creation of students' business plans to be evaluated by venture capital firms according to the product or service created. • Establish three new schools within the college :  School of Accountancy —Leverages the program's prestigious AACSB accreditation and position NSU to become one of the leading business schools worldwide.  School of Public Administration —Builds upon the success and national NASPAA accreditation, strengthening NSU's opportunity to attract the most qualified faculty members and students.  School of Real Estate Development —Formally recognizes this concentration as a school and enhances our status and reputation within the commercial real estate industry and the academic community, regionally, nationally, and internationally. NSU has an opportunity to be recognized as a center for excellence in real estate education. • Center for Executive Women —Provides an opportunity to explore strengths and challenges that women in business face around the world. Lectures from prominent guest speakers, symposia, and research will be offered.