NSU 2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalog

19 Nova Southeastern University • Undergraduate Student Catalog • 2014–2015 College of Nursing. Depending on the program’s admission requirements, students may need previous college credit or professional experience in order to matriculate into these majors. Students in these programs are not considered Professional and Liberal Studies (PALS) or Career Development students. Therefore, specific policies and criteria for these programs are outlined separately in the catalog when appropriate. University History Nova University of Advanced Technology was chartered in 1964 as a graduate institution specializing in the physical and social sciences. The board of trustees changed the university’s name to Nova University in 1974. Over time, Nova added programs in law, education, business, psychology, computer science, oceanography, social and systemic studies, and hospitality. In 1972, Nova introduced its first off-campus course of study, in education. Soon, Nova became nationally recognized for its innovative distance learning programs. While Nova continued to expand its educational reach, Southeastern University of the Health Sciences also took an expansion course. Southeastern was created by osteopathic physicians committed to establishing a college of osteopathic medicine in the Southeast. As a result, Southeastern College of Osteopathic Medicine, as it was first known, opened in 1981. From 1987 to 1997, the institution added Colleges of Pharmacy, Optometry, Allied Health, Medical Sciences, and the College of Dental Medicine, which admitted 88 students in 1997. Themerger of Nova University and Southeastern University of the Health Sciences brought on new possibilities and increased resources, making possible a more trans-disciplinary education, providing students with the opportunity to integrate across the disciplines and understand how their future professions relate to society as a whole. Today, NSU is an accredited, coeducational institution providing educational programs from preschool through the professional and doctoral levels. The institution awards associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s, specialist, and first-professional degrees in a wide range of fields, including business, counseling, computer and information sciences, education, medicine, optometry, pharmacy, dentistry, various health professions, law, marine sciences, early childhood, psychology, and other social sciences. The university’s educational programs are conducted through colleges and schools at the main campus in Davie, Florida, as well as locations throughout Florida, across the nation, and in several countries. NSU is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. NSU is classified as a research university with “high research activity” by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and it’s one of only 37 universities nationwide to also be awarded Carnegie’s Community Engagement Classification. Campus Facilities Nova Southeastern University (NSU) maintains four campuses in the Miami to Fort Lauderdale area—the main campus in Davie, the East Campus in Fort Lauderdale, the North Miami Beach Campus, and the Oceanographic Center in Dania Beach. The university also has regional campuses or sites in the Florida cities of Miami-Kendall, Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, Fort Myers, Miramar, and Palm Beach, a regional campus in Nevada, as well as an international center in the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. The university’s main campus is located on a lush 315-acre site in Davie-Fort Lauderdale, 10 miles inland from the Atlantic Ocean and readily accessible via several highways and Florida’s Turnpike. Main campus provides a central location for most of the university’s diverse colleges, schools, and centers with state of-the- art classrooms, laboratories, and patient simulation laboratories, auditoriums, and computer centers. In the last 12 years, NSU has benefited from campus expansion, with new educational facilities, athletic venues, residence halls, and performing arts theatres. In 2003, the university dedicated both the 110,000-square-foot Jim & Jan Moran Family