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Grants Update: Nursing, Education efforts yield results Butterfield Memorial Foundation
Foundations and other grant-making organizations continue to award MNU with funds to assist student scholarships and start initiatives to enhance programming. The latest is a $50,000 award to the MNU School of Nursing for student scholarships from the Butterfield Memorial Foundation. The grant specifies awardees must be junior and senior traditional Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) students. MNU is among six institu- tions to receive the grant.
According to Dr. Susan Larson, interim dean of the MNU School of Nursing and Health Science, approximately 25 schools applied for the funding. Other universities receiving funding: Azusa Pacific University, Southern Nazarene University, Seattle Pacific University, Roberts Wesleyan College, and Oklahoma Wesleyan University.
Additionally, MNU has received another award of $100,000 funding for scholarships from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through the RWJF New Careers in Nursing Scholarship Program. MNU’s first 10 RWJF scholars have begun their studies in the accelerated Bachelor of Science in nursing program and will complete leadership development activities as a part of their requirements.
August conference marks progress in PERK program
The grant-funded Preparing Educators for Rural Kansas (PERK) program through the School of Education and Counseling will kick off its literacy classes with a conference of 700 teachers in southwest Kansas in August, the first public event resulting from the 2009 award of $6.6 million over five years from the U.S. Department of Education.
Smith Conference Center ribbon cutting
In its fourth year, the English Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) grant trained 47 teachers from seven designated schools in Olathe in 2009-10. Plans are to launch the ESOL training online later in 2010.
A recent $100,000 nursing scholarship grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation yielded scholarships for 10 MNU nursing students. The 2009 recipients are pictured, back row left to right: Zach Phillips, Emily Kangogo, Macole Mayweather, Dene’ Beck, Rose Gikonyo, Stephen Hopkins. Front row left to right: Kamille Ratzlaff, Corrie Kangas, Melissa Garza, Molly Jacobsen.
Hendrickson, Olin and Smith receive retirement honors
Mrs. Marge Smith, wife of MidAmerica’s first president, the late R. Curtis Smith, cuts the ribbon at the R. Curtis Smith Building Lobby and Marge Smith Conference Center dedication on June 1, 2010. Donors and volunteers made possible the remodeling of two areas in the Smith Building to create an enhanced lobby and enlarged conference space.
Three prominent MNU professors retire at the end of June. Dr. Paul Hendrickson, physics, (left) and Kathy Smith, piano, (right) received Emeriti status at Baccalaureate on May 1. Women’s basketball coach Dr. Bill Olin (center) wrapped up his 11th year at MNU and his 30th as a NAIA coach.
12 | Accent magazine | Summer 2010
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