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Trustee Committee On Nursing
Education Appointed At NCCU
As he promised a Subcommiucc
of the University of North Carolina
Board of Governors Thursday,
Bernard Allen, chairman of the
North Carolina Central University
Board of Trustees, has appointed an
ad hoc committee to monitor
NCCU’s nursing program.
Members of the ad hoc
committee arc Trustees Walter S.
Tucker of Winston-Salem, Evelyn
0. Shaw of Fayetteville, and
William A. Shore of Durham,
joined by Ms. Carol Johnson of
Durham, an alumna of the NCCU
nursing department who heads
efforts to organize a nursing alumni
association.
Allen participated in a meeting
Thursday afternoon at NCCU of
ihe Subcommittee on Nursing
Education of the Educational
Planning, Policies and Programs
Committee of the UNC Board of
Governors.
After presentations by
Chancellor T. R. Richmond and by
Dr. Marion Gooding, chair of the
NCCU Department of Nursing,
opposing a recommendation by
UNC President C. D. Spangler, Jr.,
that the NCCU nursing program be
dosed, Allen pledged to the
subcommittee that his ad hoc
tommittee would "report to our
board and to your committee on a
regular basis."
President Spangler’s proposal
was made in an April 17 report to
the Educational Planning, Policies
and Programs Committee. In
contrast to other recommendations
which he made directly, he
proposed that a subcommittee study
the possibility of moving the
NCCU program to Fayetteville, to
become .a program for Registered
Nurses seeking the baccalaureate
degree.
President Spangler’s other
recommendations were
incorporated in a report from the
Educational Planning, Policies and
Programs Committee to the Board
of Governors and were accepted by
the Board of Governors on April
18. They included stricter standards
of performance for UNC nursing
programs and a change of mission
for the nursing program at
Winston-Salem State University,
which would phase out enrollment
of non-nurses and admit only
Registered Nurses seeking the
bachelor’s degree.
NCCU has responded to the
proposal with four arguments
against it, all of which Chancellor
Richmond mentioned in
Thursday’s presentation to the
BoarciofGcvt ' . ,
First, NCCU argues, there is no
provision for moving a program
from one university to another
within the UNC system. President
Spangler’s proposal would mean
closing one program and opening
another, and such a proposal entails
a review prrxtcss, adopted in 1977
by the Board of Governors. None
of the procedures thus far have
been a part of the review process
adopted by the Board, which calls
for formal notice to the chancellor
and a hearing before the entire
Educational Planning, Policies and
Programs Committee.
NCCU’s second argument is that
the recommendation would have
the effect of blocking doors to
nursing careers for North Carolina
students, particularly black
students. Neither the new
Fayetteville program nor the
revised Winston-Salem program
would bring new nurses into the
profession, since they would enroll
as students Registered Nurses who
had already been licensed as
nurses.
NCCU has raised the question of
the university’s commitment to
increasing the population of
minority nurses in North Carolina.
Since 1981, NCCU has enrolled a
total of 694 black nursing students,
or just over 77 a year, 28% of the
system’s total black nursing student
enrollment. The six predominantly
white nursing programs in the
system have enrolled an average of
19 black students per school per
year, while North Carolina A&T
State University has averaged 29
black nursing students a year and
Winston-Salem State has averaged
54 black nursing students a year.
Chancellor Richmond warned
the subcommittee Thursday that
closing the NCCU nursing program
could reopen the civil rights
controversy which led to the
recently-completed consent decree
between the UNC system and the
U. S. Department of Education.
NCCU’s third argument is that
its program is strong and growing.
Since 1982, 72% of NCCU’s
nursing graduates taking the
b. ensure examination have pas.-cd
the test the first time they took it.
Ailhough NCCU’s 1989 nursing
enrollment was at a low for the
decade of 36, the department
anticipates an 80-student
enrollment for the fall of 1990, and
expects to reach a 200-studcnt
enrollment in 1994.
The fourth NCCU argument is
that its enrollment was reduced
over the past four years because
those were the UNC system’s
expectations. Chancellor Richmond
read to the subcommittee Thursday
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a .staiement fiom a 1989 report to
the Board of Governors from the
UNC General Administration,
acknowledging that the Board’s
mandate for improved quality in
nursing programs at NCCU, North
Carolina A&T, and Winston-Salem
Stale anticipated reduced
enrollment, and staling that the
intent of the Board had been met
"to a significant degree."
At the Thursday meeting. Dr.
Gooding told the subcommittee that
the cost per student of the NCCU
nursing department can be reduced
to less than $5,000. She reportc.
agreements with si x area
community colleges and technical
institutes to admit their nursing
graduates to NCC U with full credit
for the work done in the
community collisges, de scribed
efforts to reac h high school
students to encou rage then i to do
the academic work requiired to
enter a baccalaureate program in
nursing, and explained counseling
and advising programs iin the
department
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Hammering in his points with
projected transparencies illustrating
statistics from the University of
North Carolina’s own data banks.
North Carolina Central University
Chancellor T. R. Richmond
defended NCCU’s baccalaureate
nursing program before a
subcommittee of the UNC Board of
Governors Thursday, August 9.
Chancellor Richmond’s
argument against closing the
NCCU program could be
summarized as follows:
First, the UNC General
Administration is denying its own
conclusions and recommendations
in making the proposal.
Second, the NCCU nursing
department’s record is far from the
worst in the system in any
measurable category. It hasn’t cost
the most, it hasn’t been the smallest
program; and it hasn’t produced the
fewest graduates or the fewest
nurses.
Third, during the past nine years
the NCCU nursing program has
produced more than a quarter of the
state’s black candidates for the
Bachelor of Science in Nursing
degree, and has outperformed the
state’s other two historically black
nursing programs in white students
as well.
Fourth, since the appointment of
Dr. Marion Gooding as chairman in
the second semester of 1987-88,
NCCU has demonstrated its ability
to match the state’s other nursing
programs in quality and to bring its
enrollment to the capacity of its
facilities.
Chancellor Richmond displayed
for the members of the
subcommittee of the Educational
Planning, Policies and Programs
Committee of the Board of
Governors the text of a section of a
1989 UNC report on nursing
programs.
That report reminded the Board
of Governors that the Board had
asked that the three historically
black nursing programs improve
their quality, even though it was
understood that efforts to achieve
higher passing rates on licensing
examinations would cut
enrollments.
The section concluded, "In fact,
the Board intent has been met to a
significant degree."
Dr. Richmond called the
subcommittee’s attention to
statistics which had been
reproduced in the 1989 report,
showing that NCCU had
outperformed the other two
historically black nursing programs
in a seven-year period by
producing 114 graduates who
passed the nursing licensing
examination on their first try. One
of the other two schools had seen
69 of its graduates pass the
examination, and the other 65.
NCCU’s percentage of graduates
passing the exam was 72% for the
seven years, above the standards of
the North Carolina Board of
Nursing and the state system, and
second to Winston-Salem State
among the three historically black
programs.
The Chancellor then displayed
statistics showing the number of
black students enrolled in the state
system’s nine baccalaureate
nursing programs. Between 1981
and 1989, the six white institutions
had enrolled a total of 1,037 black
nursing students (an average of 19
students per school.) North
Carolina A&T had enrolled 262
black student nurses in the same
period, an average of 29 students
per year, and Winston-Salem State
had enrolled 490 black nursing
students, an average of 54 students
per year. NCCU’s average
enrollment per year was just over
77, for a total of 694 black nursing
students.
Chancellor Richmond reminded
the subcommittee that closing
NCCU would also have an impact
on white students. During the same
nine years, NCCU enrolled a total
of 225 white nursing students, more
than A&T or Winston-Salem State
and an average of 25 white nursing
students a year.
Dr. Richmond then presented
data showing improvements in the
performance of NCCU nursing
students on the licensing
examination since Dr. Gooding
became chair of the department in
the middle of the second semester
of 1987-88.
Dr. Gooding and her faculty
quickly revised the department’s
curriculum that semester. Because
students had been enrolled under
the previous curriculum, they were
given the option to remain under its
standards. A total of 25 students
were exposed, by ihcir own choice,
to the new curriculum in 1988 and
1989.Of those 25, 23 passed the
licensing examination when they
took it for the first lime.
Dr. Richmond sai'l Dr.
Gooding’s experience as Dean of
Nursing at both Tennessee Stale
University and the Pennsylvania
Stale University was evidence of
her ability to turn nursing programs
around. He expressed confidence in
Dr. Gooding’s plan to expand
NCCU"s nursing cnrollmcm to 2(K)
students by 1994.
Dr. Richmond then displayed
materials showing ih.it NCCU’s
average nursing emx'ii.ncm in the
past five years was 92 students,
higher than the average enrollment
of three other .schools. He showed
cost figures for ihc 1987 and 1988
years, and noted tliat costs were
even higher for 1989-90, but noted
that at no time had NCCU’s costs
been tl.c highest in die system.
Richmond said increased funding
of nursing scholarships by the state
legtlaturc, increased philanthropic
funding, and the enhanced earning
potential of nurses ir i Ihe face ol ’ the
current shortage were additicmal
reasons to expect NCCU’s
enrollment to continuie to rise.
Dr. Gooding also presented h cr
position to the subcommiucc. Stic
described the key re visions in th e
curriculum and projjrams of thit
department, notinig that the-
program now uses a student
development model an d a learning-
style mrxlcl which are designed
especially to bcncfiit minority
nursing students black cir Hispanic.
Dr. Gooding sh owed the
subcommiucc a projee tion which
would lower NCCU’s cost per
nursing student to less d lan $5,000
a student by 1994, and cxprc.s.scd
confidence that she coul d achieve
that goal.
Joining Dr. Richmond and Dr.
Gooding for the presemat ion w cre
a number of com munity
representatives, including senior
officials of Duke Un.ivcr.sity
Medical Center, Durham County
General Hospital, L.incoln
Community Health Center, tind the
"City of Medicine" program . Each
expressed support for the
continuation and enhanceme nt of
NCCU"s nursing program, and
expressed the belief that their
insdtutions and the communiij / are
dependent on the NCCU prog ram
for well-trained nurses.
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