American standard programs, otherwise they would be threatened to lose their international license and accreditation. Strategic plan From 2000 to 2015, NYIT invested in initiatives to enhance the quality of the university, including campus infrastructure, a larger faculty, new endowed chairs and professorships. The money came from federal grants, New York state grants, and National Science Foundation grants, as well as university funding and contributions from alumni, corporations and foundations. For example, in 2002, federal government awarded NYIT $0.3 million for a new cyber security lab, in 2009, NYIT received a multimillion-dollar donation from Lumeta Corporation, in 2011, NYIT received a $0.16 million grant from the Verizon Foundation, in 2013, NYIT received $1.4 million in state and federal grants for a portion of the costs required for constructing NYIT's new $4 million Entrepreneurship Technology Innovation Center, in 2014, NYIT received a $0.23 million National Science Foundation grant to purchase a sputtering machine, used in the electronics and medical fields to create thin film sensors, and in 2015, NYIT received from New York State a grant of $0.4 million for a portion of the costs required to renovate a 5,300-square-foot facility to house three new laboratories on its Old Westbury campus. Some of the steps taken in the 2015–2016 academic year in implementing the strategic plan include: continuation of annual installments of smart classrooms and video wall installations, continuation of investing in technology in laboratories and studios, installment of clean-room sputtering machine inside the Entrepreneurship Technology Innovation Center in fall 2015, mobile-first website unveiled in January 2016, continuation of adding 3D printers across departments, adding laser scanners capable of measuring surface morphology in 3D, adding I-DEXA full body scanners, new Quark C-PET Metabolic Testing Systems that will enable to assess the physiological response to exercise in the medical school, investing in infrastructure upgrades for wireless technology, starting construction of residence halls, a dining facility, an academic building and executive offices on the Old Westbury campus, opening a new campus in Arkansas that will conduct research and offer graduate-level education and degrees such as Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.), Master of Science in Medical/Health Care Simulation, and Master of Science in Neuromusculoskeletal Sciences, among others. In 2017, NYIT opened a cybersecurity lab in Old Westbury, the first lab on Long Island designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland