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Vilanova Artigas was a faculty member of the school, and also helped create the original school's curriculum, a Bauhaus-style program giving equal footing to technical skills, history, and design. [1] During the early 2000s, there were internal discussions in the University that led to the creation of the Design course in 2006. [citation needed]
Florida Atlantic was the first university in the country to offer an undergraduate degree in ocean engineering in 1964. The first class numbering 35 graduated in 1967. The program was created in response to the loss of the Navy's submarine USS Thresher off the coast of Massachusetts.
Florida Atlantic University opened on September 14, 1964, with an initial student body of 867 students in five colleges. The first degree awarded was an honorary doctorate given to President Lyndon B. Johnson on October 25, 1964, at the dedication and opening of the university. [16]
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI, FAU Harbor Branch) is a non-profit oceanographic institution operated by Florida Atlantic University in Fort Pierce, Florida, United States. Founded in 1971 as non-profit research organization, the institution was transferred to FAU in 2007.
Barry Kaye has donated a total of $5 million to Florida Atlantic University, [4] which is the third largest gift to the university. His contributions have gone toward naming the Carole and Barry Kaye ’05 Great Hall, [5] establishing the Carole and Barry Endowment Fund, renovating the Carole and Barry Kaye Performing Arts Auditorium [6] lobby, and supporting the College of Business.
Stanley Wimberly was a well-renowned figure at Florida Atlantic University. Wimberly began as the Dean of Social Sciences at FAU in 1964, before becoming the Dean of Academic Affairs in May 1967. This main library houses about 3.7 million items including print and online books, periodicals, government documents, maps, media, and other materials.
An open-source curriculum (OSC) is an online instructional resource that can be freely used, distributed and modified. OSC is based on the open-source practice of creating products or software that opens up access to source materials or codes. Applied to education, this process invites feedback and participation from developers, educators ...
The FAU College of Education is located in Boca Raton, Florida and is one of the ten academic colleges of Florida Atlantic University [1] [2] It offers education degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The College of Education is one of the original colleges that opened when Florida Atlantic University first began offering ...