| NEWSRoom | Source: AACN and the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing’s Future | |
AACN and the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing’s Future Announce Five New Minority Nurse Faculty Scholars |
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The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is pleased to announce that five new Minority Nurse Faculty Scholars have been selected through a national scholarship program funded by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing’s Future. Launched to address the faculty shortage and enhance diversity among nurse educators, this AACN-administered program provides generous financial support, mentoring, and leadership development to graduate students from minority backgrounds who aspire to teach in our nation’s schools of nursing. Joining the 48 scholars previously selected for this prestigious honor (and a similar program offered by AACN and The California Endowment) are the following students, all of whom are all enrolled in PhD nursing programs: + Nakia Charmaine Best, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill + Anissa S. Buhring, University of Colorado + Susana J. Calderon, Mennonite College of Nursing, Illinois State University + Renee McLeod-Sordjan, Adelphi University (New York) + Esther Smith-Howell, Indiana University-Purdue University “We applaud this year’s outstanding group of Faculty Scholars and are excited by the contributions we know these outstanding individuals will make to nursing education and research,” said AACN President Jane Kirschling. “We are grateful to the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing’s Future for joining with AACN to address two of the profession’s top priorities by helping to diversify the nurse faculty population and support doctoral-level nursing education.” More details and photos of this year’s scholarship recipients are posted on the AACN web site at http://www.aacn.nche.edu/students/scholarships/minority. The Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing’s Future-AACN Minority Nurse Faculty Scholars Program was launched in September 2007 to support full-time minority students with an interest in teaching. This program invites applications from students in doctoral and master’s programs who will serve as nurse faculty after completing their degree programs. Scholarship recipients were selected by a 11-member review committee with awards in the amount of $18,000 each disbursed in the fall. All scholarship recipients are expected to attend AACN’s annual faculty development conference and meet regularly with an identified mentor who will assist in preparing Faculty Scholars to assume leadership roles in academia. Since 2007, AACN has administered programs that have distributed more than $29 million in scholarship funding to nursing students through a variety of efforts sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence, the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing’s Future, and the California Endowment, as well as through co-branded programs with CertifiedBackground.com, AfterCollege, and Hurst Reviews. The majority of this funding has been awarded to students from diverse ethnic/racial backgrounds and to those with financial need. To learn more about these scholarship opportunities, see http://www.aacn.nche.edu/students/scholarships. |
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