One College of Nursing in Illinois teamed up with the UIC School of Public Health to launch initiatives to attract more nursing students, under a three-year U.S. Department of Health and Human Services grant. The new programs include a mentoring program for paraprofessionals and a fast-track nursing degree program.
The attitude and credibility of future physicians and nurses as treatment
providers for smoking- and tobacco-related diseases may be influenced by their
smoking habits. We compared smoking habits among medical and nursing students,
and examined whether these habits changed during the course of education for
each group.
Whether they like it or not, global universities are operating in a worldwide
marketplace. As a recent report on "borderless education" for the vice-chancellors
and the funding councils pointed out, an emerging corporate university in
the US is experiencing escalating growth in online distance learning. Private
educators and state-funded institutions across the world are being challenged
with aggressive competition because of the call for online business education.
