It may be a positive move or it may not be. We'll see how people respond in 5 years when I tell them I graduated from this place.
I'm still 400k+ in debt, and still ambivalent about the education I received. I remember how pissed I was during the 4 years I was in school. I just did not like most of what I studied or do particularly well with anything in pre-clinical or clinicals. I did not like talking to everyone whom had some variation of "dean" to their name. When I was a pre-med I was on SDN a lot and I just minimized the work, the debt, and the stress that was in a lot of posts.
But maybe that's just a reflection of myself and the choice I made to go down this road. There are really people out there from NSU who loved school, enjoyed life in school, and are doing well as doctors. A lot of them didn't bitch and moan like I did as a student and just ate everything up and built themselves a good personal and professional life.
I do remember before those 4 years wanting to be a doctor, and during my interview there in 2008 being told about most of these plans (research center and teaching hospital), and being impressed at them actually having a university campus and a variety of hospitals to go to. I do remember that after graduating being called doctor, and after getting my full license being asked to moonlight for a lot of money doing doctor work. In that sense, they delivered for me.