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FOIl loude,dolt', flofOdo )3314 Vol. 4, No.1 Fort Lauderdale, Florida February, 1978 NEW PROGRAMS POINT NEW DIRECTIONS Program in Population and Health Ocean Sciences Center Looks To The Future .• 1 Nova University bas established a program in the fall of '78, will be part of new program in Population and Health that expansion program, Lawniczak ex­ which will capitalize on the Univer:sity's plained. "We will structure the masters experience over ten years with innovative program in a similar manner to the Ph.D. teaching techniques and formats. The set-up now in effect, in that it will be self program will provide education in inter­ paced." disciplinary health management and pop­ Among the goals the director will ulation. Graduate degrees will be offered be focusing on in the immediate future to clusters of students both nationally are a December announcement of the and internationally. establishment of the William Springer The main purpose of the program is Richardson Chair of Physical Ocean­ to train health professionals who wish to ography which will seek to find a person improve their competency but who can­ with international reputation in this field not renege on job or family responsibil­ and the recruitment of 500 members by ities to go back to college full-time, Nova Prof. Burgess Or. Lowniuok the end of June for Friends of Ocean President Abraham S. Fischler said. The program is headed by Professor Recently named director of the Sciences. Lawniczak emphasized that the Participants are mature middle and upper Paul Burgess, L.Th., M.S.P.H., a former Ocean Sciences Center of Nova Univer­ Friends, panerned after the Associates at level professionals who want to increase Vatican diplomat with extensive interna­ sity, George E. Lawniczak, Jr. has adop­ the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institu­ their effectiveness in health care delivery tional experience. His graduate studies in ted as his motto, John Paul Jones's quote, tion in Massachusetts, would implement systems and study for credentials which the population and health fields were "I will not have anything to do with ships the aims of the Center in helping the enable them to advance within their sponsored by the Ford Foundation at the which do not sail fast, for I intend to go growth and expansion of programs that organizations. University of Chicago and the University in harm's way." do not receive federal funding. In coordination with the Graduate of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with The renaming of the Nova Univer­ "I hope that membership in this Management Program and Nova's Cen­ permission from his superiors at the sity Physical Oceanography Laboratory group will provide a sense of belonging tef for Public Affairs, master's degree Vatican. He has served as consultant to as the Ocean Sciences Center was only a to the community and residents of South programs have been established and are the International Bank for Reconstruc­ signal for a series of changes Dr. Lawniczak Florida, an outlet for those who would being offered to health career profes­ tion and Development (World Bank), the has planned for the future of the Center. like to be involved with the challenges sionals. The degrees are based on courses Agency for International Development Building the Ocean Sciences Center which a dynamic organization of this in business management and public ad­ (AID), and the Council of Rectors of into a world-class oceanographic institute kind will provide," he said. ministration and are complemented by Brazilian Universities. in Broward County within the next 10 In addition, Dr. Lawniczak intends years will involve enlisting support of courses in health which emphasize the In the international sector, the Pro­ to expand the Directors Advisory Board herurh-ft8pcct'8-of. pJanning,rnanagemenr, gram in-Population and"""Hea1th WIll pro­ I_ local communities, he says. The dedica­ to 50 members. He will also create a Sci­ and health care delivery. vide technical assistance to agencie&..and tion of the people now involved in form­ ence Advisory Board consisting of five or Tbe course work can be completed groups (particularly in Central and South ing the Friends of Ocean Sciences at six eminent oceanographers from this in eighteen months with the practicum America) wishing to design, test, and Nova University will add substantially country to meet annually at the Ocean taking approximately six additional implement simplified health systems to this possibility. Sciences Center. This group will be asked months, thus enabling a student to com­ which emphasize family planning as a Dr. Lawniczak, the first director of to advise and help with scientific deci­ plete the degree in two years' time. The part of overall health services, President the Navy Oceanographic Laboratory at sions pertinent to the advancement of format for class meetings covers a tpree­ Fischler explained. Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, assumed his programs at the Center. month term during which a student takes position as director of the Center July 1. Taking into account the future growth Through the Program in Population two courses (six credit hours). The group "We have certain strengths that we of the Center, Dr. Lawniczak plans a and Health, Nova University has entered meets every third weekend on Friday must capitalize on;' he stated. "We have building program within the next five into a formal agreement with the Souza evenings and in all-day Saturday sessions. need to exploit the experience and back­ years as he anticipates the growth of its Marques University Foundation in Rio Tbe first group of students to enroll in a ground in physical oceanography that faculty to 15, and an increase of support de Janeiro and collaborative efforts are Master of Science in Health Management was started by Bill Ricbardson 10 years personnel to at least 30 as the growth of being developed which will involve Nova degree commenced classes on the Nova ago, and continued and stabilized so well the Center is realized. He is hopeful that faculty in research, education, and train­ campus on January 6th. by Dennis Moore after Richardson's boat donations will include a houseboat ing activities in the popUlation and healtb A cluster, or group of participating death. With Dr. Moore's assistance my that could fulfill the needs of incoming students, can be established in any loca­ fields. primary concern here at the Center will students by serving as a dormitory at the tion where there is sufficient interest; the Additional information may be ob­ be a new growth program." Center. cluster meets on a regular basis. Faculty tained by contacting the Program in Broadening the scope of Ocean Sci­ "We want to capitalize on the beauty from the Nova campus as well as other Population and Health, Nova University, ences beyond the area of physical ocean­ of the Center in this natural setting of renowned experts from various institu­ 3301 College Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, ography to include involvement with land and sea. Our surroundings reflect the tions will be sent to the cluster locations Florida 33314. Telephone: (305) 587-&;60, marine biology, marine geology and sea­ atmosphere of the state park, of which we to teach the courses. extension 399. air interactions, and 10 start a masters are a logical extension. Masters Program For Child Care Administrators master's programs in Early Childhood state and regional agencies). Considerable Education and Special Education, and the evidence can be mustered about the im­ nursery program of The University School. portance of public school principals in The new program, housed within setting the climate for an entire school. the Behavioral Sciences Center, was Since child care administrators have developed after a study of additional roles much greater discretion in curriculum Nova University might perform in the and personnel, and much greater respon­ vital arena of child care. While future sibility for supervision, evaluation and direction of the field continues to be un­ fi scal management than do their counter­ certain-particularly with regard to the pans in the schools, it is clear that their question of the involvement of public performance is a critical determinant of school systems and I or massive federal the nature and quality of child care programs. or state financing-there are some aspects The second observation underlying that are quite clear. the development of this program has to The Program has been developed in do with the inappropriateness of most recognition of rwo such aspects. The first academic programs for child care ad­ Or. Sroufe observation is that the skill and leadership ministrators. Because there are few Dr . Goldman The University'S well-established of administrators is the central ingredient master's level programs designed for conventional university programs. Child interest in early childhood education has in creating and maintaining quality child administrators, they must either take an care administrators require a specialized been broadened to include a master's care programs. Strategies for improving advanced degree in a "related field" or curriculum emphasizing management program designed specifically for ad­ child care must include solid provisions settle for in-service, non-degree programs. skills, but conceived broadly enough to ministrators of child care progr~m s .