rm ««« a ■•.(■■U NCCU News 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 SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1990—THE CARiOLINA TlMES-13 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 NCCU Defends Nursing Program With UNC System’s Statistics N.C. Central "Eagles" vs. N.C. A&T "Aggies" Adults — $15, Students/Children — $7.50 NCCU Ticket Office P.O. Box 19745 Durham, NC 27707 (919)560-5170 Tickets on sale at NCCU McDougald Gym Ticket Office N.C. A&T Ticket Office and J.C. Smith Athletic Department vm& POST OFFICE BOX 3825 DUIUIAM. north CAROLINA 87702-.'IR25 Subscribe Now PLIJASR ENTER MY SUBSCRIPTION FOR. . . ( 1 1 year-lJiirliani County-812.60 ( I I year-Nortli Carolina-318.90 { ] 1 ycar-Oiit of State-318.00 Mr. Mrs.. Ms. . Aililr ’M% Sjatc . } » *’*' Money (frdcr fiiicRmcd I > lllll iiic wlliilii llilrlv lnvH 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. Subscribe To 1 lie Carolina Times Ca/l Today!:! 682-2913 EAGLES’ CALENDAR AUGUST 15-19 (Wednesday-Sunday), First National African-Ameri can Leadership Training Conference and Civil Rights Reunion, Health Sciences Building. Speakers and panelists include James Farmer, Jamil Al-Amin, Julian Bond, Floyd McKissick, John Edwards. (Students welcome. Call 919 690-1525 for information.) AUGUST 15 (Wednesday), 7:30 d. m., James Farmer speaks at first session of First National African-American Leadership Training Con ference and Civil Rights Reunion. Admission is free, and the public's invited to this session. Health Sciences Building Auditorium. For information 919 560-6433 cr 560-6367. AUGUST 15 ( Wednesday), Freshman Orientation begins. AUGUST 17-21 (Friday-Tuesday), Registration. (No registration Sun day.) AUGUST 22 (Wednesday), Classes Begin. SEPTEMBER 3 (Monday), Labor Day Holiday. No classes. EAGLE — AGGIE CLASSIC CHARLOTTE, N.C. 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