Tag: H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship

Business Professor Receives Fulbright Specialist Award to Indonesia

The U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board have announced that NSU’s Rita Shea-Van Fossen has received a Fulbright Specialist Program award. Shea-Van Fossen will complete a project at Universitas Katolik Santo Agustinus Hippo in Indonesia that aims to exchange knowledge and establish partnerships benefiting participants, institutions and communities in the U.S. and overseas through a variety of educational and training activities within Business Administration

Rita Shea-Van Fossen, Ph.D.

Shea-Van Fossen is one of more than 400 U.S. citizens who share expertise with host institutions abroad through the Fulbright Specialist Program each year. Recipients of Fulbright Specialist awards are selected on the basis of academic and professional achievement, demonstrated leadership in their field, and their potential to foster long-term cooperation between institutions in the U.S. and abroad.

The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to build lasting connections between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. The Fulbright Program is funded through an annual appropriation made by the U.S. Congress to the U.S. Department of State. Participating governments and host institutions, corporations, and foundations around the world also provide direct and indirect support to the Program, which operates in over 160 countries worldwide.

Since its establishment in 1946, the Fulbright Program has given more than 400,000 students, scholars, teachers, artists, and scientists the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research, exchange ideas, and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns.

Fulbrighters address critical global issues in all disciplines, while building relationships, knowledge, and leadership in support of the long-term interests of the United States. Fulbright alumni have achieved distinction in many fields, including 60 who have been awarded the Nobel Prize, 88 who have received Pulitzer Prizes, and 39 who have served as a head of state or government.

For further information about the Fulbright Program or the U.S. Department of State, please visit http://eca.state.gov/fulbright or contact the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Press Office by telephone 202-632-6452 or e-mail ECA-Press@state.gov.

Posted 01/14/24

NSU Receives Approval by Top University Accrediting Body

Dr. Belle Wheelan, President of SACSCOC with NSU President and CEO George L. Hanbury II

Nova Southeastern University received notification from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) that our Fifth-Year Interim Report has been successfully accepted with no additional reporting requested.

SACSCOC is the body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the Southern states. It serves as the common denominator of shared values and practices primarily among the diverse institutions in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Latin America and certain other international sites approved by the SACSCOC Board of Trustees that award associate, baccalaureate, master’s, or doctoral degrees.

The Commission also accepts applications for membership from domestic institutions in the other 39 states, as well as international institutions of higher education around the world.

Congratulations to all for this recognition of NSU as a preeminent university of quality and distinction!

Posted 12/05/23

FY2025 PRG and QOL Grant Cycles Now Open

The FY 2025 President’s Research Grant (PRG), formerly the Presidents Faculty Research Development Grant (PFRDG), and Quality of Life (QOL) grant cycles are now open! This year the application process will take place on Cayuse Sponsored Projects, NSU’s new grant management system. Applications are due via Cayuse no later than January 22, 2024, 5:00 p.m.. More information, as well as application instructions, can be found on the PRG and QOL websites, linked below. Through these programs, eligible faculty may apply for internal grants of up to $15,000 in support of a variety of research and scholarly activities. PRG and QOL are tremendous opportunities to obtain support for research and scholarship at NSU, and to build faculty research capacity that can be leveraged toward external funding pursuits.

For more information about how to apply and program guidelines, visit the PRG program website here and the QOL website here. For questions, please contact PRG@nova.edu or QOL@nova.edu.

Posted 12/10/23

Professor Collaborates With Mediterranean School of Business

I am Selima Ben Mrad, Ph.D., a marketing professor at Nova Southeastern University’s H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship. I am Chair of Assurance of Learning (AOL) at HCBE and work as an AACSB Assurance of Learning facilitator. I have also been designated as a Fullbright specialist in assurance of learning and have been actively collaborating with the Mediterranean School of Business (MSB) to help them achieve AACSB accreditation.

I visited MSB twice as a Fullbright Specialist and AOL expert. Each visit was rewarding. I am very excited to continue collaborating with them in the future. I am incredibly grateful to MSB for providing me with a fulfilling experience as a Fullbright specialist. During my time there, I worked closely with Dean Dr. Leila Triki, Dr. Mediha Ferjani (Accreditation Manager), and Dr. Mehdi Zahaf (Academic Planning Unit Director) on a range of projects, including AACSB report writing, MSB governance, AOL timelines, AOL course mapping, documentation development for task forces, and the AOL process. I must express my appreciation to the MSB faculty for their exceptional quality and collegiality, which is genuinely on par with the standards of American universities. Their dedication and active involvement in student improvement are truly commendable.

During my initial visit in April, I conducted two workshops with the faculty to help them understand AACSB standard 5 and the complex language used in accreditation. These workshops covered creating rubrics, explaining course mapping, and discussing the differences between direct and indirect measures. We also explored competencies, Bloom’s taxonomy, and the importance of engagement in the learning process.

During our second visit from Oct. 15-31, we focused on refining AOL competencies by adopting a more faculty-driven approach. We meticulously reviewed and enhanced the competencies and conducted workshops with faculty members to finalize rubrics for one undergraduate program (UPM) and two graduate programs (MBM and EMBA). The faculty members transitioned from using holistic rubrics to analytic rubrics, which made the competencies more precise and measurable. I also emphasized the importance of distinguishing between direct and indirect measures, as emphasized in the AACSB 2020 standards.

Moreover, I worked with the administration to improve AOL governance by creating AOL and curriculum committees, stressing the importance of integrating both entities and considering AOL’s significant role in the curriculum. We also revised the AACSB report, its narrative, and the process changes, highlighting the changing culture at MSB with a greater emphasis on faculty participation.

My main goal is to establish a more mature and systematic process that involves all faculty members. I am pleased to report that MSB has completed one loop and is closing another one. Faculty members have fully owned the process, with 80% actively participating in workshops, contributing to rubric development, and engaging in task forces. They now understand the terminology comprehensively and are actively invested in the AOL process.

Posted 11/26/23

Provost’s Research and Scholarship Award Winners

It has been 13 years since the Provost’s Research and Scholarship Award program first launched. This program expanded last year and now offers awards across two career stages and two disciplinary categories. There were many outstanding nominations this year, and from that pool of distinguished nominees, five NSU faculty were recognized on Monday, November 13 in the Levan Center. This year, an added recognition for each winner was provided by NSU Business Services; each winner received a one-year membership to the NSU Faculty Club, valued at $300.

Arts, Business, Humanities, Law, and Social Sciences

For the Assistant Professor Award, two faculty members are honored in this category.

Furiasse

Assistant Professor Award – Amanda Furiasse, Halmos College of Arts & Sciences is an Assistant Professor of Digital and Medical Humanities in the Department of Humanities and Politics. Her scholarly work is at the intersection of religion, artificial intelligence, and cybernetic medicine, with recent publications in journals of religion, social issues, and culture. Her scholarly efforts extend beyond academia in her role as senior producer and podcast director for the Political Theology Network’s Podcast and as Co-Director for the Contagion, Religion, and Cities Project at the Center for the Study of Religion and the City. A recent grant award from Florida Humanities features her podcast work again, this time to launch a futurist podcast called Florida 2100: Tales of Tomorrow.

Ellis

Assistant Professor Award – Amy Ellis, College of Psychology, is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of the Trauma Resolution and Integration Program. She seeks to understand the impact of trauma on underserved populations in regard to health disparities, such as affectional and gender minorities, as well as Latine individuals, and male survivors of sexual abuse. Her work in collaboration with external colleagues has been funded by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and National Institute of Justice. In addition to academic publications, she disseminates her work through various news sources for broader audiences such as The New York Times, Psychiatric Times, Medium, and The Conversation. Her service to the NSU community includes training for campus units like the public safety department and Psychological Services Center as well as supervising students who see clients with various psychological difficulties.

Mujtaba

Professor Award – Bahaudin Mujtaba, H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship, is a Professor of Human Resources and International Management. He is the author and coauthor of books dealing with diversity, ethics, and business management, and his contributions to his field are significant. During the past thirty years, he has worked with managers and human resource professionals in almost 20 countries, and this diverse exposure has provided him with many insights in cross-cultural management from the perspectives of different firms, people groups, and cultures.  With an extensive publication record and thousands of citations covering topics such as business, change, culture, ethics, diversity, and others, his work is highly collaborative with over 50 different coauthors drawn from NSU, the United States, and abroad. His books and guidance are sought and frequently used by companies, professors, and the media.  He served as a cultural consultant for the movie Kite Runner and in 2018 did pro bono training and development work in Afghanistan on topics of adult learning, leadership, and ethics.

STEM and Health/Medicine

Robison

Assistant Professor Award – Lisa Robison, College of Psychology, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and in her short time at the university already has funded collaborations with researchers in NSU’s Colleges of Pharmacy and Osteopathic Medicine. Her multidisciplinary work spans many topics, such as determining how lifestyle factors like exercise, diet, stress influence brain health and risk for mood disorders, addiction, and dementia. Since 2020, she has published 12 papers in journals with an average impact factor of 7.56. This widespread recognition can be further quantified with more than 1,000 citations of her publications and an impressive h-index of 21. Her work has garnered media attention, being featured on Newsweek and other news outlets.

Smith

Professor Award – Robert Smith, Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine, is an Associate Professor in the department of Medical Education and researcher in the NSU Cell Therapy Institute. His work on antibiotic resistance contributes to our understanding of how bacteria resist antibiotics as populations. He has received funding as a PI or Co-PI on projects from the Department of Defense and National Institutes of Health totaling over $2 million. One of these grants funded research equipment that has been used by over 4,000 NSU students and faculty. He has supervised over 65 undergraduate and graduate students, engaging many in his lab’s research projects and publishing with several of these students. As editor for the journal PLoS One and chair of NSU’s Faculty Research Advisory Council he helps to shape and support the research and scholarship in his field and others.

Congratulations to all the winners on their impressive achievements.

Posted 11/26/23

Business Professor Among Panelists at Economic Summit

From the H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship, from left, Dean Andrew Rosman, Professor Albert Williams, Tanya Pawlowski, Amanda Conde, and Jose Poza.

Albert Williams, Ph.D., chair and associate professor of finance and economics at NSU’s H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship, was one of three panelists at the Economic Summit and Expo Wakeup Breakfast for the Coral Springs Coconut Creek Regional Chamber of Commerce, held Nov. 14, 2023.

Williams entertains the summit attendees with some music.

Williams discussed inflation, past and present, and provided a forecast for 2024. He stated that, in 2024, the U.S. economy will grow at a similar, or slightly higher, rate than in 2023.

Williams addressed questions regarding the difficulty of finding skilled and unskilled workers in Florida. With a low unemployment rate of 2.6 percent in South Florida, most people are already working. Also, due to a recently signed state bill, many farm, construction, and service workers are leaving the state. He discussed how employers can help their employees with the burden of inflation.

This includes giving employees annual salary increments that reflect the inflation increase and providing financial literacy training for them. Williams also recommended that employees have a candid self-reflection on their lifestyle and either increase their income and/or cut costs, such as reducing the number of meals away from home and reducing transportation costs by doing “batch” trips (buying groceries, buying gas, getting your prescription, and getting pizza in one trip).

Because of the shortage of workers, Williams strongly recommended that the employers attending the session come to NSU to find students who have the potential to be excellent workers. In addition to sharing his economic and finance knowledge, Williams also shared his guitar talent and entertained the 80 participants with his smooth guitar music, which is a fusion of rock, reggae, calypso, and Latin.

Posted 11/26/23

Princeton Review Ranks College of Business and Entrepreneurship

For students aspiring to launch their own businesses, Nova Southeastern University’s H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship offers one of the best entrepreneurship studies programs, according to The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine, the education services company’s publishing partner on this project.

Now in its 18th year, the project annually names the top 50 undergraduate and the top 50 graduate schools for entrepreneurship studies. HCBE is No. 44 on the Top Graduate Programs for Entrepreneurs list for 2024.

Based on a survey The Princeton Review conducted in summer 2023 of administrators at nearly 300 schools with entrepreneurship offerings, the ranking tallies considered more than 40 data points about the school programs, faculties, students, and alumni.

The Princeton Review also reported the schools that ranked highest within their regions of those that were named to the Top 50 lists. Lists were tallied for seven regions: International, Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, South, Southwest, and West. HCBE is ranked No. 9 in the South region.

The Princeton Review posted the rankings at www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings/top-entrepreneur. Entrepreneur magazine, The Princeton Review’s publishing partner on this project since 2006, also posted the lists on its website at www.entrepreneur.com/topcolleges. The magazine will publish a feature article on the rankings in its December issue available on newsstands November 14.

“We are pleased to recommend the H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship to students who aspire to become entrepreneurs,” said Rob Franek, The Princeton Review’s editor in chief. “The schools that made our ranking lists for 2024 are standouts in many ways. Their faculties are outstanding, and their programs of study have robust experiential components. Their students also receive mentoring and networking support that will serve them well into their careers.”

Posted 11/08/23

Hall of Fame Celebrates Entrepreneurial Trailblazers

On Tuesday night, Oct. 10, 2023, under the lights of the Rick Case Arena, Nova Southeastern University’s H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship honored three outstanding regional entrepreneurs at its 34th Annual Entrepreneur and Business Hall of Fame.

The Entrepreneur and Business Hall of Fame is a celebration of the remarkable achievements and contributions made by trailblazers in the business world. Over the years, this event has honored some of the most influential entrepreneurs and business leaders, including Guy Harvey, Rita Case, Mario Murgado, Terry Stiles, H. Wayne Huizenga, Carl A. DeSantis, and Beverly Raphael.

This year, the Entrepreneur and Business Hall of Fame recognized:

  • Antonio “Tony” Argiz, the South Florida managing partner at BDO USA, a premier accounting, consulting, financial advisory, and tax organization.
  • Leon Ellman, chairman of the JLE Group, a private equity investment and management consulting firm based in Fort Lauderdale.
  • S. Donald Sussman, a hedge fund investor with 30 years of experience and the founder and chief investment officer of the Paloma Fund, a billion-dollar-plus investment fund.

Dean Andrew Rosman of NSU’s H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship addresses the crowd.

On hand to celebrate the new inductees were many former inductees, NSU President and CEO George L. Hanbury II, NSU Provost Ronald J. Chenail, Board of Trustees Chair Charles L. Palmer, and Dean Andrew Rosman of the H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship (HCBE).

During the event, Rosman acknowledged the recent passing of two of Hall of Famers: Carl A. DeSantis (July 1939-Aug. 2023) and Alexander W. Dreyfoos Jr. (March 1932-May 2023).

President Hanbury also held a moment of silence for those lost and struggling in the war-torn Middle East.

As the new hall of famers were captured in videos, greeted, and celebrated, 300 attendees – including several HCBE students – packed the audience.

Posted 10/12/23

Two-Day Entrepreneur Bootcamp to Give Start-Ups Leg Up

The Shepard Broad College of Law and the Sharon and Mitchell W. Berger Entrepreneur Law Clinic proudly present the 2023 Berger Entrepreneur Bootcamp: Innovating Successfully – Getting it Right! 

Building on the success of our three prior bootcamps, each with more than 200 in-person and online participants, our 2023 two-day bootcamp will immerse entrepreneurs in the skills and disciplines needed to successfully launch and grow a start-up business. The event will be held Friday, Oct. 13, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 14, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Alan B. Levan I NSU Broward Center of Innovation.

The 2023 bootcamp will feature a faculty of more than 30 diverse presenters from NSU’s Shepard Broad College of Law, NSU’s H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship, start-up founders, and other experienced professionals and participants in South Florida’s start-up ecosystem.  This two-day workshop is open to all NSU students, faculty, staff, and the general public. It will also be simulcast and recorded for those who want to attend the program online. Walk-ins are also welcome.

Admission to the program is free and includes course materials, breakfast, coffee, and water. On Friday, lunch will be provided at no charge through the generosity of our sponsors. On Saturday, lunch can be purchased for $20 when you register for the event.

TO RSVP OR FIND OUT MORE INFORMATION CLICK HERE.

Posted 10/06/23

Interprofessional Education, Simulation to Open Gateway to Future of Health Care at NSU

For years, NSU has been raising the bar on health care in South Florida through interprofessional education and simulation. Our philosophy and practice have focused on training future professionals to interact with patients and collaborate as members of health care teams before practicing in real-life health care environments.

To enhance and expand our current world-class health care facilities, NSU Health is seizing the opportunity to put them under one roof at the future site of a brand new, standalone Interprofessional Simulation Complex, or SimCom.

This facility – spearheaded by EVP and COO Dr. Harry Moon and NSU Health – will serve as the cornerstone of NSU’s health care footprint on the Fort Lauderdale/Davie Campus, strategically located near the health care colleges, NSU Health’s clinics, the Center for Collaborative Research, and the HCA University Hospital. The facility’s infrastructure will be used by students on campus as well as all regional campuses virtually. Slated to open in 2025, SimCom will be supported by NSU Health’s new Interprofessional Simulation Institute – led by Executive Director Dawn Wawersik. The Institute – which already oversees the administration and operations of simulation activities for the university.

These cutting-edge endeavors will culminate in a uniquely beneficial asset to NSU students, educators, and researchers across all our regional campuses, as well as the health care community and industry at large. The much smaller former Dolphins training facility building, previously considered to house SimCom, will be repurposed to address much-needed office and classroom space on campus.

Learn more about these exciting endeavors.

Posted 09/26/23

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