Broward Community College - Silver Sands Yearbook (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

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NOVA UNIVER by RONNIE CIANI Broward junior College, frowned upon by many students, is in the middle of the most outstanding edu- cational center in the Southeast. Nova University was conceived for the advanced, the gifted and the cre- ative student, where he and his fel- lows can move in an atmosphere dedi- cated to education and scientific dis- covery. The university was founded with two objectives. These are South Flor- ida's desire for a high quality center of learning and the need for a private institution in the southeastern United States dedicated to the advancement of science. SITY However, Nova will not be con- cemed with the technologies alone. The arts and humanities will also be emphasized. The University's forceful young president, Dr. Warren Win- stead, states, We are dedicated to the advancement of all learning. VVe hope to provide for the student an exposure in depth to the meanings and values of our culture, while giving him the skills and appreciation neces- sary to a full and rewarding life. The university is a part of what is called the Nova Complex, an edu- cational innovation which is unique in the United States. The complex consists of Nova High School, an un- graded, team-teaching, electronics- assisted institution planned with the aid of the Ford Foundation, Nova Elementary School, a scaled-down copy of the high school, and the Iun- ior College of Broward County. These are all public, tax supported and part of the county school system. The complex is located on one sec- tion of the wartime Naval Air installa- tion, Forman Field, which was given to the school by the General Services Administration. The privately en- dowed university is being built across the street, on a section of the field which was partly purchased from the C.S.A. by the university founders and partly given to them. They had paid roughly S125,000 toward a pur- chase price of S375,000 when General Services, with the approval of the U. S. Office of Education, forgave the rest. The total complex was planned un- der a K Qfor kindergartenj through 20 Cgraduate schoolf' concepts, by a group of school board members, edu- cators and about 50 business and pro- fessional people of the county, func- tioning as the South Florida Educa- tion Center, Inc. The first 14 grades were to be public schools, the univer- sity was to be privately endowed, open as a graduate school and work down to meet the junior college. For at least a few more years the university will only accept students with a masters' degree from another institution. Many will be engineers and researchers who have been sent by industries to take advanced courses. The past absence of a tech- nological university of this nature is considered a handicap to the region's efforts to attract more science-oriented industry. According to Dr. Winstead, Nova is conceived as the M. I. T. of the South and the third point of an American triangle embracing M. I. T. and the California Institute of Tech- nology. An Advisory Board of the top men in education, control and supervise the university's progress. Serving on this board are: Dr. James R. Killian, jr., chairman of the corporation of M. I. T., and Robert B. Gilmore, Cal Tech's vice-president for business affairs. Also on the board are two Nobel Prize winners in physics, Dr. Hans D. Jensen of the University of Heidel- berg, Germany, and Dr. Emilio Segre of the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Richard Folsom, presi- dent of Rensselair Polytechnic Insti- tuteg Dr. Abram Sachar, president of Brandeis University, Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus, dean of the Institute of Technology of the University of Min- nesota, and Dr. Frederick Seitz, presi-

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