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Homecoming Celebration is Around the Corner: Nov. 8-14

Homecoming is the time to celebrate tradition and instill pride in all members of the Nova Southeastern University family through active engagement of students, alumni, faculty, and staff across the community.

The Homecoming celebration will begin on Monday, November 8, 2021, and will end on Sunday, November 14, 2021. You don’t want to miss out on all the awesome activities taking place, including a couple of surprises!

See the list of scheduled events.

https://www.nova.edu/homecoming/

Follow the Office of Campus Life and Student Engagement on Instagram (@nsucampuslife) to stay updated.

For disability-related accommodations for any of the events, please e-mail disabilityservices@nova.edu.

Posted 10/25/21

Guest Artist Jefreid Lotti Holds Exhibition in Davie

Come and enjoy a guest artist exhibition at the Don Taft University Center on NSU’s Davie Campus in Gallery 217. This exhibition features observational paintings Jefreid Lotti created at the mechanic shop where he works, making reference to the shop being open during the pandemic lockdown when most places were closed.

The exhibition, which is a free and sponsored by the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences, will run through November 12, 2021. Call 954-262-7620 to schedule an in-person gallery visit.

For more information, contact Associate Professor of Art + Design Kandy Lopez at klopez1@nova.edu.

Posted 10/21/21

Face Covering Requirement Relaxed on Our Campuses

George L. Hanbury II, Ph.D., President/CEO, Nova Southeastern University

I am pleased to announce that face coverings for all undergraduate, graduate, and professional students, as well as faculty and staff members and visitors, will no longer be required at any of our campuses or sites, with the exception that masks must still be worn by everyone in academic classrooms. This new policy does not apply to NSU University School. Additionally, faculty, staff, and students in Puerto Rico need to continue abiding by the governor’s mask requirements.

Additionally, university-sanctioned travel, which was suspended at the start of the pandemic, is now approved to resume according to university policy. And I am sure many of you will be happy to know that events (which include indoor dining) can now also resume at all our campuses, facilities, and sites.

Faculty and staff members, full- or part-time, with an approved medical or religious exemption from vaccinations, must continue to wear masks while indoors to protect themselves and others. Also, those students, faculty, and staff who must be in an environment where Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is required to be worn, must continue to wear a mask. Finally, anyone who wishes to continue to wear a mask may do so. NSU’s faculty and staff are now 99.7% fully compliant with the mandatory vaccination policy—a great commitment to creating a safer environment in which to learn and work.

On the student front, there has been a positive reaction, though not as much as I had hoped, to voluntary reporting of vaccination statuses. Such actions have resulted in only two campuses surpassing the 70% vaccination rate for students. If all our campuses reach the 70% vaccination rate, we will be able to eliminate the face covering requirements in all classrooms and make them optional. We also continue to encourage students who attend classes at any NSU campus or facility, to voluntarily register in the Vax Max portal so that we may reach the 70% vaccination rate throughout the university.

As previously noted, only two campuses – Jacksonville and Orlando – have reached the 70% vaccination goal and therefore masks will now be optional in the classroom at those two locations. As other campuses reach this goal, they too, will be exempt from the mask requirement in the classroom.

Only two NSU Residence Halls on the Fort Lauderdale/Davie Campus—The Commons and the Cultural Living Center (CLC)—are below the 70% vaccination rate. Residents of these halls must continue to wear a mask while indoors, in common spaces, and when visiting other NSU residence halls. As in the campus locations, once these two residence halls reach the 70% threshold, face coverings will become optional for them as well.

Although we are lifting most of the requirements, all restrictions may be lifted as we receive greater vaccination rates on all campuses. However, the pandemic is not over. I strongly recommend that if you have not been vaccinated, please get vaccinated today for your safety as well as the safety of your fellow students and associates, and voluntarily register in the Vax Max portal.

NSU will continue to monitor all our campuses and communities, and if there is a spike in new cases, we may have to revisit all safety measures once again.

Thank you for all you have done to keep the pandemic at bay in Shark Nation.

Fins Up!

George L. Hanbury II, Ph.D.
President/CEO
Nova Southeastern University

Halmos Faculty, Students Present on ADR Higher Education

Neil Katz, Ph.D.

Neil Katz, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Conflict Resolution Studies (DCRS) in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center (HCAS) presented at the 2021 Association for Conflict Resolution Annual Conference held virtually in September. His co-presenters were DCRS doctoral candidates and students, Eileen Petzold‐Bradley, Peter Kent, and Brad Palmore. The conference theme was “Reflective Engagement,” and the presentation was titled “Beyond Brick & Mortar: Addressing the Challenges in ADR Higher Education, Theory, and Practice.”

Petzold-Bradley is a doctoral candidate and holds a Master of Urban and Environmental Planning from the University of Virginia. Kent is a doctoral candidate and holds a Master of Arts in Organizational Communication from California State University, Los Angeles. Palmore is a doctoral student and holds a Master of Arts in Conflict Resolution from Abilene Christian University.

Katz’ areas of teaching and research interests include negotiation theory and practice, group dynamics, and organizational conflict.

Dean/Professor Emeritus Receives Distance Learning Award

Yang

Honggang Yang, Ph.D., dean and professor emeritus from the former NSU College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS), was honored by the Florida Distance Learning Association. He received the award for Innovative Leadership in Distance Learning in Higher Education.

Yang designed and implemented the Residential Institute (RI) in 1999, still used by the Department of Conflict Resolution Studies in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center (HCAS), RI brings distance learning students to campus twice a year to engage in on-campus learning, attend keynote lectures, and participate in working groups and social activities. In addition, he implemented other programs such as the Campus Diversity Dialogues.

Students Chosen as National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists

NSU University School is incredibly proud to congratulate four of our academically talented seniors — Madison Draizin, Zachary Hardgrave, Nikki Steinberg, and Brian Zhi — on being selected as 2022 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists! They are among 16,000 of the highest-scoring program entrants, representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, who qualified as semifinalists for their exceptional academic ability and potential for success in rigorous college studies.

Semifinalists will have an opportunity to continue in the competition to attain finalist standing and qualify for winner recognition as well as National Merit Scholarships that will be awarded in spring 2022.

Art + Design Majors Named ‘Students to Watch’ By Magazine

Vivian Duran

Sol Santecchia

Vivian Duran and Sol Santecchia, Art + Design majors in the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences, were recently named “Students to Watch in 2021” by Graphic Design USA (GDUSA) magazine.

“It is certainly an achievement for our students to gain this national recognition,” said Miriam Ahmed, Ph.D., assistant professor of graphic design for the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts. “GDUSA is a widely recognized publication in the industry, and having our students featured in the magazine demonstrates to the field that our NSU graphic design students are on par with students from top design schools across the country. As we promote and grow the Art + Design program, accolades earned by our outstanding students are indicators of the caliber of talent recruited into our program and their successful career trajectories.”

The magazine’s April 2021 issue also added Nova Southeastern University to GDUSA magazine’s compilation of “Highest Honors: Top Graphic Design Schools.”

“I am so proud of our outstanding Art + Design students and faculty,” said Shanti Bruce, Ph.D., professor and chair for the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts. “They have worked hard, and this is a well-deserved honor.”

Check out the magazine feature!

Learn more about the Graphic Design concentration offered through the B.A. in Art + Design program.

Faculty Member Earns Top Healthcare Management Credential

François Sainfort, Ph.D., FACHE

François Sainfort, Ph.D., FACHE, professor and chair, H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship and professor in the Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine, recently became a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, the nation’s leading professional society for healthcare leaders.

“The healthcare management field plays a vital role in providing high-quality care to the people in our communities, which makes having a standard of excellence promoted by a professional organization critically important,” says Deborah J. Bowen, FACHE, CAE, president and CEO of ACHE. “By becoming an ACHE Fellow and earning the distinction of board certification from ACHE, healthcare leaders demonstrate a commitment to excellence in serving their patients and the community.”

Fellow status represents achievement of the highest standard of professional development in healthcare management. To obtain Fellow status, candidates must fulfill multiple requirements, including long-standing experience in healthcare management at the highest level, demonstrating impact on the field of healthcare management, meeting stringent academic and experiential criteria, maintaining continuing education hours, engaging in professional/community service, and passing a comprehensive examination. Fellows are committed to ongoing professional development, continuing community service, sustained impact on healthcare management, and undergo recertification every three years.

Sainfort is privileged to bear the FACHE® credential, which signifies board certification in healthcare management as an ACHE Fellow.

“Being awarded the FACHE® credential is an honor and, in part, a reflection of the quality of our graduate programs in HCBE and NSU MD. One of my goals is to draw a path for our graduates to pursue the fellowship in their careers as well,” he said.

Former Graduate Assistant Coordinators Publish Article

‘Aolani Robinson, left, Danielle Pierce, above

Danielle Pierce and ‘Aolani Robinson, former graduate assistant coordinators at the NSU Writing and Communication Center (WCC), and HCAS alumna from the Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media MA program published “Integrating and Evaluating Twine as a Mode for Training Course-Embedded Consultants in the Writing Center” in the Peer Review vol.5, no.1, Winter 2021.

Pierce and Robinson’s article explores how Twine, an open-source platform for interactive fiction games, was used to train NSU writing center staff participating in a course-embedded tutoring program.

According to Pierce, “As the Graduate Assistant Coordinator for NSU’s COMP Fellows program, I saw a need for scenario-specific training when preparing our Fellows to work in the classroom. Oftentimes, the COMP Fellows would approach me with a question or concern after attending class. I want the Fellows to be able to address any issues that arise in the moment, and to continue developing relationships with the faculty and students they work with. When ‘Aolani approached me with incorporating Twine into our writing center training initiatives, I knew this would be a creative opportunity to provide our Fellows with training focused on navigating classroom-based scenarios.”

Their article addresses the need for additional training materials through a supplemental scenario-based Twine training game for writing center consultants embedded in first-year composition. Through qualitative responses, they found that consultants reacted positively to the scenarios within the Twine training. The positive reception demonstrated that Twine can be implemented as a creative solution for simulating situations that may occur in classroom-based consultations.

To read Pierce and Robinson’s article, visit http://thepeerreview-iwca.org/issues/issue-5-1/

To learn more about the NSU Writing and Communication Center, please visit https://www.nova.edu/wcc/.

To learn more about the Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Master’s Program, visit https://hcas.nova.edu/academics/graduate/masters/composition-rhetoric-digital-media.html        

Faculty Member Receives NSEE Distinguished Service Award

Martha M. Snyder, Ph.D., PMP, SPHR

Martha M. Snyder, Ph.D., PMP, SPHR, received the Michael Steuerman Distinguished Service Award on Tuesday, September 28, at the awards luncheon of the 50th National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE) Annual Conference at the Renaissance Hotel at SeaWorld, Orlando, Florida.

This award recognizes an NSEE member who exemplifies the values and mission of the society and who has made critical contributions to NSEE’s success. Snyder has served on the NSEE conference planning committee since 2017 and chaired the 2020 conference where she managed to shift a fully on-site experience to a virtual event during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the summer of 2020, Snyder facilitated online webinars to support professional development efforts and community-building.

In preparation for NSEE’s 50th conference, Snyder organized conference activities that brought NSEE past presidents and leaders together to share their experiences and visions for the future. She also serves on the faculty of NSEE’s Experiential Education Academy (EEA) where she facilitates workshops on assessment, reflection, teaching and learning experientially, and online learning and experiential education. In 2021, Snyder joined the NSEE Board of Directors. She will focus her efforts on professional development for the Society and its membership.

Snyder is the director of faculty professional development in NSU’s Learning and Educational Center and a professor in the Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice. She also teaches undergraduate and master’s courses in the Farquhar Honors College and Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine respectively.

The National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE) is a nonprofit membership organization composed of educators, businesses, and community leaders founded in 1971 that strives to cultivate educators who effectively use experiential education as an integral part of personal, professional, civic, and global learning.

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