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...Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing shutting down for lack of students and money? Well-qualified applicants are still plentiful here. We are simply moving with the times to change our 106-year-old diploma nursing school into a three-year master of science program for non-nurse college graduates. Anticipated result? The theoretical strengths of university-level instruction plus the solid clinical experience we have traditionally offered...
...past, most nurses got their training in hospital-based schools. After three years, they received diplomas and proudly wore caps emblematic of their schools. Today, as the profession attempts to upgrade itself, more and more nurses are in the classroom rather than the ward, pursuing either two-year associate degrees or four-year baccalaureate degrees at colleges and universities. Enrollment in such courses has jumped so sharply (from 67,000 to 194,000 in the past decade) that more than half of traditional training programs have shut down for lack of students and money. One likely casualty: the 106-year...
...turn came, I was escorted by two Ph.D's up to the platform. I climbed the steps. The diploma was handed to me. I was thinking of my family and how proud I knew they were. And I was so proud of them for all they had done to achieve this. Then, instead of congratulating me, Dr. [Warren E.] Wacker simply said, "Now John, if you'd only move a few steps to your left." It took me more than a moment to realize he was not talking about my physical position on the platform...
...plays the organ for pay on Sunday at three churches in the neighborhood, but he has not found a full-time job since completing the twelfth grade at Hillsborough High School. He wanted to join the Army but decided against it when a recruiter asked for his high school diploma. Gary had to tell him he did not have a diploma because he had failed to pass the Florida functional literacy test, which this year became a requirement for graduating from high school. Gary had not expected that failure; he had received passing grades for twelve straight years in public...
This month Florida Federal District Judge George Carr ordered that a diploma be awarded to Gary, and to others among the 3,445 blacks and 1,342 whites who flunked the literacy test after three tries but were otherwise eligible for graduation. In the first federal court ruling on the new wave of minimal competency graduation requirements, which have been adopted in various forms by 17 states, Judge Carr upheld the graduation requirements in general, but ruled that the Florida program was imposed too hastily. Florida's mandatory literacy test was announced in 1977, while this year...