Nova Southeastern University once slighted as a diploma mill????

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/7546005.htm

DIPLOMA MILL

Once slighted as a diploma mill, NSU's reputation has improved dramatically in the past 20 years as its commitments to technology, distance learning and flexible scheduling have drawn attention from education experts.

Earlier this year, NSU was ranked by the National Center for Education Statistics as the nation's 10th-largest independent, not-for-profit university. The top-10 list includes Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and New York University.

 

I recall seeing that in the contemporaneous literature in the early 1980's. I believe earlier editions of Bear's Guide also recall that, noting the irony of such a statement about a fully accredited school.

 

This article was also noted and discussed in the thread on NCU at: http://forums.degreeinfo.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11430&perpage=30&highlight=Nova%20Southeastern%20University&pagenumber=2

John

 

Nova was a pioneer in the area of distance/distributed learning many years ago. Since higher education tends to be, as a whole, rather stodgy, highly innovative programs that operate "outside the box", such as Nova, incite fear and wrath from the old guard. University of Phoenix faced (and in many circles still faces) the same wrath.

Many of Nova's innovations (such as distributed learning centers, clusters and distance learning) are now a part of normal operations of many universities.

Tony Pina
Faculty, Cal State San Bernardino
(Not a Nova grad, but I respect what they have done over the years)

 

I forgot to add that Nova University's reputation certainly was not helped by the fact that an unrelated dipolma mill, called Nova College operated for several years. Maybe that had something to do with the later name change to Nova Southeastern U.

Somebody here on Degreeinfo is bound to know the story behind that.

Tony

 

I was under the impression that Nova University became Nova Southeastern University after it merged with Southeastern Medical School.

Cy

 

And you would be correct.

The Canadian-then-Caribbean Nova was a mere speck. It is doubtful it had much affect on the legitimate Nova, if any.

 

Is NSU in any way related to a school called New College that operated in Florida in the 60's and 70's?

 

If it's New College in Sarasota that you refer to, then it's still in operation. NC is a public honors college for academically talented students. It has been affiliated with the Univ. of South Florida since 1975.

Trivia: the mathematician William Thurston (a Fields medalist=~Nobel Prize in math) is a 1967 graduate.

 

My optometrist earned his doctorate from Nova. While sitting for an eye exam about two years ago, I noticed the Nova diploma, which immediately became the topic of conversation. The guy does a great job and has quite a large clientele.

I just hope his Nova time bomb doesn't go off while I'm there for an office visit.

 

I'm not sure what you mean by this; can you elaborate?

 

I think he meant while he was getting an eye exam; the diploma explodes, scares the optometrist, and accidently sticks an instrument in his eye. I agree with him if that's the case... That would, definately, be a bad thing.

Bill

 

I thought that this may be interesting to add to the conversation.

http://www.nova.edu/cwis/ia/pubaffairs/news/jan-march2004/apa_levant.html

I am sure like most schools Nova had to overcome many things by being innovative.

Duff

 

Okay, I'm not following this whole time-bomb thing. There's another thread going right now that is talking about time-bombs in relation to diploma mills. What exactly is a time-bomb when referenced to a particular university?

 

Russell's comment about the time bomb was a joke.






Tom Nixon

 

Oh, okay. I've been looking into the doctoral program via NSU pretty seriously. I suppose I'm just gettin' a little squirrelly. Don't want to jump into a program and pour thousands of dollars into it for the whole thing to blow up on me later on.



Cy

 

NSU doctoral studies are sound and will not be a time bomb for you.

Best,

John

 

The time bomb comment was in jest.

 

Cy,

You will be just fine with a Nova Southeastern Doctorate (just like many who frequent this forum). Russell has a good sense of humor.

Tony