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NSU’s Enrollment Management, Student Affairs, and Athletics (EMSAA) division has launched its intranet site, EMSAA CommunityNet. This digital resource center, designed for our faculty and staff community, introduces the division’s six pillars, providing insight into each of their departmental operations and the resources they offer. The key purpose of this site is to serve as a go-to hub for faculty and staff to learn more about the division, have “at your fingertips” access to its resources and contacts as well as keep the community abreast of scheduled events and programs that provide for student engagement and university-wide collaboration opportunities.

We are excited to introduce EMSAA CommunityNet and are committed to making sure this site provides NSU’s faculty and staff with informative and relevant EMSAA-related content, while ongoingly managing site improvements and content renewing efforts. To help us know what the community’s interests and needs are, we want to hear from you.  If there is content you consider to be a beneficial community resource, please email the details to: emsaacommunitynet@nova.edu.

To learn more about EMSAA CommunityNet, visit https://www.nova.edu/emsaacommunitynet and log in using your NSU login credentials.

NSU employee Mallica D. Reynolds published an article in the APPA Facilities Management MagazineSeptember/October 2024 edition. The focus was on “Trust but Verify: Elevating Integrity in Facilities Management.” Reynolds is the assistant director of regional facilities with the Office of Facilities Management. He is a two-time NSU alum.

Office of Facilities Management champions the need to live out the NSU Core Values in everyday endeavors. Integrity is no exception to this mode of operation. It lays the foundation for internal and external relationships growing strong and operating effectively. Trusting the team to complete their assigned task is one half of the process needed to maintain balance in a productive organization.

Daniel Alfonso, NSU’s vice president of facilities management, promotes a participatory environment between all facilities management teams. Each team collaborates to bring the finished product to students, faculty, staff, and visitors. Reynold’s article indicates that facilities management involves managing both people and equipment. People need to be mentored, trained, held accountable, and rewarded for good work. Equipment and mechanical systems must be maintained, upgraded, and replaced. In each area, failure to hold accountable and maintain high levels of integrity can lead to devastating end results such as loss of life.

NSU is an active member of the Association of Physical Plant Administrators (APPA) and the Southeastern Regional Association of Physical Plant Administrators (SRAPPA) and is a driving force setting new national facility management trends. APPA is an international facilities management organization representing more than 17,000 educational facilities professionals from more than 1,200 learning institutions. APPA is the diamond standard for higher educational facilities management.

READ REYNOLD’S ARTICLE.

Harry K. Moon, M.D., FACS, FRCSEd., Nova Southeastern University’s president-elect, executive vice president and chief operating officer, has been named a Fellow ad hominem of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, a professional qualification required to practice as a surgeon in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

With decades of experience in health care innovation, Dr. Moon joins the ranks of the prestigious Royal College, founded in 1505 under a royal charter from King James IV. It is the oldest surgical college in the world with nearly 32,000 members in 100 countries. Its Fellows champion the highest standards of surgical and dental practice while also standing at the leading edge of technological developments like virtual reality, robotics and simulation.

The power to grant certification for the Royal College of Surgeons is reserved exclusively for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

Before joining NSU in 2018, Dr. Moon’s distinguished career included roles such as chief executive officer of Cleveland Clinic Florida. Preceding his Cleveland Clinic appointment, Dr. Moon was a staff physician and chair of the Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery for the Cleveland Clinic Health System as well as a member of the Cleveland Clinic Board of Governors and Cleveland Clinic Foundation Board of Trustees. Under Moon’s leadership, Cleveland Clinic Florida initiated efforts to establish a fully integrated academic medical center in South Florida.

Dr. Moon has been executive vice president and chief operating officer of NSU since 2018. He led the university’s COVID Response Team through the university’s rapid transition to fully online learning during the pandemic, allowing NSU to sustain and increase enrollments. NSU was one of Broward County’s first free vaccine sites for the university and surrounding community.

Dr. Moon also led the integration of NSU’s clinical practices to create NSU Health, a university-affiliated health care network.

A distinguished and internationally recognized plastic and reconstructive surgeon, he has been a clinical associate professor of surgery in NSU’s Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine since 2008 and is now a professor of anatomy at NSU’s Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences.

Dr. Moon will begin his tenure as the seventh president of NSU in January 2025.

Get more information about Dr. Moon.

Posted 04/10/24