Florida City U.S District Court Judge, (41) 2.03 After closing Bay Visa Housing to students and long-term leasing the facility to RCL for employee training FIU is developing BayView Student Housing on the BBC campus BBC's first on-campus new housing in 30+ years will house 408 students in a high rise overlooking Biscayne Bay. The Green Library is FIU's main library is the largest building on campus and one of the largest library buildings in the Southeastern United States Originally designed by Architect David M Harper in 1973 the Green Library was expanded by the architecture firm M C Harry & Associates Inc in the early 1990s to its current eight floors with a capacity to expand to a total of 15 floors if necessary the eight-floor structure was built over through and around the original three-story library while it was still in use.
Having started as a two-year upper division university serving the Miami area FIU has grown into a much larger traditional university and serves international students More than $600 million has been invested in campus construction with the addition of new residence halls the FIU Stadium recreation center student center and Greek life mansions as well as the fielding of the Division I-A Golden Panthers football team in 2002. Florida also has more than 500 nonnative animal species and 1,000 nonnative insects found throughout the state Some exotic species living in Florida include the Burmese python green iguana veiled chameleon Argentine black and white tegu peacock bass mayan cichlid lionfish White-nosed coati rhesus macaque vervet monkey Cuban tree frog cane toad Indian peafowl monk parakeet tui parakeet and many more Some of these nonnative species do not pose a threat to any native species but some do threaten the native species of Florida by living in the state and eating them. 5.6 Mining Opa-locka Miami is also home to both for-profit and nonprofit organizations that offer a range of professional training and other related educational programs Per Scholas for example is a nonprofit organization that offers free professional certification training directed towards successfully passing CompTIA A+ and Network+ certification exams as a route to securing jobs and building careers.
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