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University To Enlarge
Nursing School Program

A growing faculty, new research
programs carried out by faculty and
students and a new nursing classroom and
laboratory building expected to be under
construction by April, are all part of a
build-up to expand the nursing program
at the University.

A major factor in the University's
drive to produce more nurses is the
education building for the School of
Nursing which will be built with funds
provided in part under the bond issue
approved by Virginia voters for the
current biennium.

The $2 million nursing building will be
the second project to get under way
within a year which will help the
University bolster the rank of the health
care profess llin me
education building for the School of Medicine
the Largest protect at the University, is ahead
under construction and its completion will
permit mere the enrollment of medical
students from 00 to 400

There are students about more
than last year emoedin the nursing school
which accepts students after tion of two
years of per stud elsewhere.
Seventy-five per cent of the nursing students
are from and numbers
attending classes on scholarships as available
funds have climbed from 10,800 in 1967-68
to appro $45,000 this year month of i
from federal sources

With the new building enrollment could o
to 500 undergraduate students studying for the
B.S. degree and still have room for 100
graduate students under a plan previous
outlined to the State Council for h
education.

The University's nursing program is med at
preparing "excellent bedside nurses who can
work ducy with medical patents cal
patients, psych patents with children and
adults in hospitals as well as in the home." says
Dr. Mary dean of the nursing school. In
addition registered nurses are being attracted
to the University's program with R
including two men enrolled in the school this
year.

In its thrust to provide broader educational
programs, the University nursing program
follows the State Council's two-year old
"Virginia Plan for Higher Education." The
State Council suggested in its statewide plan for
higher education that the University "might
well consider the development of additional
programs leading to the doctoral degree." The
Governor's Committee on Nursing last year also
noted the need for doctoral nursing programs in
the State.

Besides expanding the faculty with top
caliber teachers and encouraging continuing
education for them, the school has begun to
emphasize research, a field of great importance
says Dean Lohr.