Monday 4 April 2016

Ian Dewson Enrolls at Nova Southeastern University

Ian Dewson chose Nova Southeastern University to study for his Bachelor’s Degree, a private institution in Davie, Florida.  The name Nova has given way today to NSU, for Nova Southeastern University, which today offers 18 schools with 175 courses of study, allowing students the choice of more than 250 different majors.  Degrees in law, business, osteopathic medicine, allied health, pharmacy, dentistry, optometry, physical therapy, occupational therapy and nursing are available from Nova Southeastern, which has recently enrolled 24,148 students.
                                 Ian Dewson
Nova University of Advanced Technology got its start in after World War II, when it was initiated on a former Naval Landing field.  Its first degrees were in physical and social sciences.  Chartered in the state of Florida in 1964, NUAT had a first class of 17 students.  A significant gift of $16 million in 1971 helped fund NSU’s expansions in the 1980’s.  Merging with Southeastern University of Health Sciences in 1994 resulted in its current name, and currently NSU is labeled by Carnegie Foundation as a high research university.

Nova Southeastern University is proud today of its physical campus on the remains of the Naval Outlying Landing Field Forman, purchased from the Forman family of Florida, and NSU has remained true to the promise to the Forman family to use the land for educational purposes.  The South Florida Education Center, of which Nova Southeastern University is a part, also includes Broward College, Florida Atlantic University, McFatter Technical College and the University of Florida.  Original plane taxiways around the airfield are still used as roads on the campus.

The H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship, where Ian Dewson studied for his Bachelors of Sports Management arose in 2004, housed in the Carl DeSantis Building.  Henry Wayne Huizenga, a businessman and entrepreneur, is or has been the owner of three professional sports franchises, since his days in Fort Lauderdale as a high school football player and class treasurer.  Huizenga’s first business was begun with a single garbage truck, which he called Waste Management, Inc.  This became a Fortune 500 company by Huizenga purchasing various independent garbage companies, 133 in all, until Waste Management became the largest waste disposal company in the United States.  Huizenga followed the same business model with Blockbuster Video, building it into the country’s leading movie rental franchise.  Huizenga built the nation’s largest auto dealer, AutoNation, and is also involved in a variety of auto and parts related operations.

Ian Dewson is deeply dedicated to the progress of sports in his home state of Florida, where H. Wayne Huizenga, whose name identifies the Sports Business School of Dewson’s studies at Nova Southeastern University, developed the Florida Marlins and the Florida Panthers, rendering these sports franchises into profit-making operations.
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