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NSU Celebrating 50 Years of Innovation
Nova Southeastern University was envisioned a half-century ago as a high-tech university different from anything Florida had ever seen. And it has been pioneering ever since.
“I think Nova is an amazing success story,” said Tinsley Ellis, 80, an attorney who oversaw the incorporation of the university and has served on the Board of Trustees since the beginning. “It had a very, very rocky beginning, and a lot of people were skeptical that we could have a full four-year college and graduate school. It was hard to raise the money.”
But the school managed to turn its struggles into opportunities, growing from its first class of 17 students in 1967 to an enrollment of 26,000 today. It’s the largest private university in Florida and one of the 10 largest in the country.
President George Hanbury is optimistic about NSU’s future.
“We’ve really had a wonderful and glorious history in the last 50 years,” he said. “I’m really thinking the next 50 years will be even greater, even more transforming.”
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