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H.A. UPDATE: USM launches online nursing program

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Someone is going to have to connect the dots for me. If we offer an online program to help nurses with associate degrees get a bachelors degree, this will increase the number of nursing faculty? Are students with online degrees more likely to apply and be accepted into PhD programs and eventually become faculty?

It seems to me the more practical response is to raise nursing faculty salaries so that they are more competitive with clinical work. Don't we do this for business faculty members?

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One of the issues here is that this program seems to be aimed at people who already have an RN and are working now. Don't most nurses work 12 hour shifts now? How are you going to schedule classes for people who work around the clock?

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How do they do it? In the face of declining revenue, falling enrollment, and faculty losses the university continues to add programs on a weekly basis.

It reminds me of the joke about the merchant who was going to sell below cost and make it up on volume.

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Curmudgeon wrote:
How do they do it? In the face of declining revenue, falling enrollment, and faculty losses the university continues to add programs on a weekly basis....

The rest of the article is now posted:

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060806/NEWS01/608060318/1002

It appears that a grant is funding this program.