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Leadership & Policy

Grants & Gifts

CLAYTON STATE UNIVERSITY’S SCHOOL OF NURSING (Ga.) has been awarded the Nursing Workforce Diversity Grant of $335,299 for three years from the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration. INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON, has been awarded an $80,000 grant from the Spencer and Teagle Foundations’ initiative for Systematic Improvement of Undergraduate Education […]

April 30, 2008

Hispanic-Serving Institutions Win Grants To Spur Economic Growth

Colleges will receive much-needed funds from a Labor Department program, which works closely with businesses to fill work force gaps.

April 16, 2008

Recruitment & Retention

Golden State Responds to Shortage of Health Care Professionals

With the lowest number of registered nurses in the nation, a California program aims to fill gap through a number of diversity initiatives.

March 19, 2008

James Anderson Named New Chancellor at Fayetteville State

Fayetteville State University has a new chancellor.

March 10, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Professional Appointments

MOLLY CORBETT BROAD has been named president of the American Council on Education (ACE), the nation’s principal higher education association, effective May 1. She served as president of the University of North Carolina System from 1997-2006. Currently, she is a professor in the School of Government at UNCChapel Hill. Broad earned a bachelor’s from Syracuse […]

February 6, 2008

Grants and Gifts

Clark College’s Corporate Education (Wash.) unit has been awarded a $31,000 Job Skills Program (JSP) grant to provide training for Southwest Washington Medical Center. The grant will provide training for 25 SWMC directors, managers and supervisors on the topics of lean health care, training the trainer and leading change. The Kentucky Adult Learner Initiative has […]

January 9, 2008

Grants and Gifts

Meharry Medical College-Center for Women’s Health Research (Tenn.) has received a $1 million gift from the Wal-Mart Foundation. The funds will help advance work in diseases that disproportionately affect women of color. Michigan State University has been awarded a $2.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help seasonal and migrant worker youth […]

December 12, 2007

Grants & Gifts

The COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY has received a three-year grant totaling more than $745,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to make the college’s nursing program available online. CCBC will begin offering this online nursing program in the fall of 2008. EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY (Va.) has received $399,649 from Higher Education […]

November 28, 2007

At Germanna CC, Students Nurse Human-patient Simulators

LOCUST GROVE Va. Increasingly, students in the medical field can learn to tend to patients before setting foot in a hospital.

November 15, 2007

Community Colleges

Community Colleges Are Portals to New Career Paths

In today’s ever-changing business climate, college-educated professionals are increasingly transitioning to new careers with community college degrees and certificates.

November 14, 2007

New Mexico Receives $3.5 Million Grant to Enhance Nursing Programs

SANTA FE, N.M The New Mexico Higher Education Department has awarded $3.5 million to support nursing programs at 17 of the state’s public colleges and universities. The grants ranged from $50,000 to $500,000, the department announced.

November 13, 2007

Community Colleges

Community Colleges Are Portals to New Career Paths

In today’s ever-changing business climate, college-educated professionals are increasingly transitioning to new careers with community college degrees and certificates.

November 12, 2007

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