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...quick Rx: offshore outsourcing. In addition to St. Kitts, India, Britain, Belize and Jamaica are using the nursing-school slot shortage as a selling point to recruit American students. The pioneer of this movement is an 88-year-old entrepreneur named Robert Ross. He made his mark in the 1980s when he founded medical and veterinary schools in Dominica, despite having no background in either medicine or education. Ross University grew into a profitable institution with more than 2,000 students, and Ross sold it for $135 million in 2000 to a private-equity firm. He has reapplied his winning...
...Ross has grand plans for IUON and hopes to make it the largest nursing school in the world. He has sunk at least $10 million into the 50,000-sq.-ft. (4,600 sq m) campus on 10 acres (4 hectares) of land in gorgeous St. Kitts. Ross has attracted more than 20 faculty members from the U.S. with competitive salaries of $70,000 to $80,000 a year, plus overseas tax breaks. "The island life is definitely a bonus," says assistant provost Frank Wagner...
...need to watch the school closely," she says. "Can students come back and sit successfully for the licensing exam?" To improve their odds, IUON nursing students attend classes in St. Kitts for three semesters but finish their clinical studies at one of six partner schools in the U.S. Ross pays these cash-strapped schools tuition plus an undisclosed fee. Dr. James Utterback, president of Oklahoma's Seminole State College, was one of Ross's first partners. "We benefit from the extra funds and added diversity on our campus," Utterback says. Seminole doesn't have enough teachers to enroll IUON...
...Ross applauds such efforts. He always sells IUON as an alternative for students who aren't accepted into an American nursing school first. "We tell applicants, If you got into a school in the U.S., go there." If only it were that easy...
...Staff writer Madeline K.B. Ross can be reached at mross@fas.harvard.edu...