An Institute of Medicine report has called for registered nurses to achieve higher levels of education, but health care policy makers and others have limited evidence to support a substantial increase in the number of nurses with baccalaureate degrees. Using Pennsylvania nurse survey and patient discharge data from 1999 and 2006, we found that a ten-point increase in the percentage of nurses ho...

There is a gap between ethnic minority students and ethnic majority students in the attainment of higher education degrees (Allen, 1992; DesJardins, Ahlburg, and McCall, 2002; Hatch and Mommsen, 1984; Mehan, Hubbard, and Villanueva, 1994; Myers, 2003; Pathways to College Network, 2003). Racial or ethnic minority students have a higher probability of leaving postsecondary education than ethnic m...

Eligibility for enrollment in most upper-division School of Business courses (300-400 levels) is restricted to juniors, seniors, graduate students and special students who have completed baccalaureate degrees. Students without these qualifications may enroll only in the following upper-division accounting (ACCT) course, provided any course prerequisites are met: ACCT 305 Tax Planning for Indivi...

Eligibility for enrollment in most upper-division School of Business courses (300400 levels) is restricted to juniors, seniors, graduate students and special students who have completed baccalaureate degrees. Students without these qualifications may enroll only in the following upper-division accounting (ACCT) course, provided any course prerequisites are met: ACCT 305 Tax Planning for Individ...

Nurses play an important role in responding to disasters. Preparing nurses to participate in planning for and responding to a disaster is integral to undergraduate nursing education. The authors describe the evaluation of a collaborative learning model that has been used to teach undergraduate nursing students about disaster preparedness.

Forty-five subjects including community health nurses with baccalaureate nursing degrees, senior-level generic nursing students, and registered nurses in a baccalaureate nursing program were compared on age, years of employment in nursing, and three variables 6f professional autonomy: nurses’ rights and responsibilities, the nurse-patient relationship, and nurses’ role in health care delivey. I...

For an academic field so self-consciously preoccupied with intelligence, the humanities don’t seem to be run very intelligently. Humanities fields now account for only around five percent of all baccalaureate degrees awarded annually, hundreds foreign language programs have been lost, and job market newly minted Ph.D.s is abysmal. “But departments are way too busy being brilliant,” Mark Bauerle...