Changes in leadership at NSU Athletics. Accolades for NSU students and graduates. Services provided for children and their families. Terry Mularkey, M.A.S., CFRE, vice president for university advancement and chief of staff, welcomes readers to the start of a new school year. | |
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The passion that unites NSU with its donors and partners is the commitment to making the world we inherit better. This Donor Honor Roll celebrates NSU’s partners in preeminence who made donations of $250 or more from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024. Additionally, this list of current (as of August 16, 2024) donor-funded scholarships recognizes NSU’s partners in preeminence who have helped NSU provide meaningful scholarships to undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Thank you! | |
Ronald Chenail, Ph.D., serves as the university provost and executive vice president for academic affairs. In 1988, he was working toward a doctorate degree in family therapy at Texas Tech University but took a road trip to Florida at the invitation of his mentor. He has never looked back. More than 35 years later, he remains loyal to NSU and says that his career path came to be because, "When I've been asked to help and take a leadership role, I've said yes."
In his conversation with the Donor Connection, Chenail shares stories from his time at NSU, discusses why the university is welcoming the largest class of incoming freshmen to date, and provides an exciting outlook for what is on the horizon.
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PROGRAM Highlight
The One Person Can Change the World program brings high school juniors to NSU for an immersive three-week college experience that prepares them for their senior year and beyond. The program was created by Andrea Nevins, Ph.D., M.F.A., dean of Farquhar Honors College. Her goal was to help participants learn how change happens through the lens of humanities, then encourage them to make a difference by developing a project that creates change in their community. The NSU program is part of a larger initiative funded by The Teagle Foundation.
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DONOR Spotlight | Associa | |
Real estate property managers are in high demand, and NSU is training a new wave of leaders to take on that role through the James Donnelly Property Management and Real Estate program at NSU H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship. The program was recently bolstered by a $1-million gift from leading Texas-based property management company Associa.
In 2023, James Donnelly, founder and chairman of Castle Group, one of Florida’s largest property management companies, sought to address workforce shortages in real estate management through a program at NSU. The James Donnelly Property Management and Real Estate program is dedicated to producing an adept workforce that will meet a growing need for property managers in the state and beyond.
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James Donnelly speaks to an NSU class about the property management business. | |
The Daily Act of Art Making at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale
This program presents three concurrent solo exhibitions of South Florida artists who have dedicated their long careers to the daily act of art making. The featured artists are Matthew Carone (born 1930, lives and works in Fort Lauderdale), whose daily-executed gestural abstractions have made him a mainstay in the South Florida art scene; Panamanian artist Jaime Grant (born 1965, lives and works in Miami), who on the day he turned 50, believed he was visited by a spirit who drove him to create more than 5,000 paintings and to build machines that reflect the struggle between good and evil; and long-time South Florida resident Elizabeth Thompson (1954–2023), who produced commanding canvases of mysterious narratives, including a series of landscapes based on the Florida Everglades.
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GIVING Opportunity
The Broward County Sea Turtle Conservation Program (BCSTCP) at NSU works to protect threatened and endangered sea turtles. Broward County serves as nesting habitat for three of the seven species of sea turtles—leatherback, loggerhead, and the green sea turtle—and hosts an average of 2,000 nests annually. Sea turtles are nocturnal, and therefore, mainly nest and hatch at night. Unfortunately, they face a host of challenges—exposure to pollution, diseases, poaching, coastal development, and light pollution that can cause hatchlings to become disoriented on their way to the ocean. BCSTCP provides conservation for the nesting and in-water habitats of sea turtles for 24 miles of Broward County beaches.
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