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NGU Partners with Mary Black to Offer New Program in Nursing


North Greenville University’s College of Sci- ence and Mathematics (COSAM) has trained high-quality biology students for decades. In fact, medical school acceptance rates of the col- lege’s biology graduates have remained around 90 percent over the past 10 years.


To build on that success, NGU announced at a press conference on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018, a new affiliation with the Mary Black School of Nursing at the University of South Carolina (USC) Upstate in Spartanburg, SC. Te part- nership will help address supply and demand projections of the nursing workforce.


Now, NGU biology and nursing majors will have the opportunity to earn two bachelor’s degrees in five years. Te first three years will be spent at the NGU campus and the final two years at the Mary Black School of Nursing at either the main campus in Spartanburg or the USC Upstate Greenville Campus at the Univer- sity Center in Greenville, SC.


“Students are able to experience our Christ-cen- tered atmosphere, attentive professors, and smaller class sizes for three years before entering into a clinical environment,” says Dr. Tomas Allen, NGU’s COSAM dean. “In addition, without losing any academic course content pertinent to their major, the successful student can obtain a dual degree while saving the cost of one academic year.”


Trough the new program, students will receive a Bachelor of Science in Biology from NGU after their fourth year and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from USC Upstate after their fifth year.


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Qualified NGU students who meet all ad- missions criteria as described in the Mary Black School of Nursing academic catalog and identified by NGU will be invited to apply in their junior year. NGU will then provide an approved list of students annually to be entered into the Mary Black School of Nursing prior to Oct. 1 for an August start date and March 1 for a January start.


Identified students with completed applications who meet the standards of the dual degree pro- gram will be guaranteed acceptance.


Te first group of NGU students will enter the nursing program at USC Upstate in Spring 2019.


“As the level of illness in the general population has increased over the last 20 years, as well as the number of seniors over 65, there is a need of more expertly qualified nurses to take care of them now and in the coming years,” says Allen.


In fact, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reports in its “Supply and Demand Projections of the Nursing Work- force: 2014-2030” analysis that South Carolina is among the four states with an estimated shortage of more than 10,000 registered nurses (RNs) by 2030.


Fast-growing specialties in the field include certified dialysis nurse, legal nurse consultant, nurse midwife, nurse anesthetist, nurse case manager, nurse educator, nurse practitioner, and nurse researcher, to name a few.


“Hospitals and healthcare systems prize nurses with strong bachelor degrees beyond basic RN licensure, and this uniquely thorough academic preparation will help to usher highly qualified new nurses into the Upstate’s medical commu- nity,” says NGU President Dr. Gene C. Fant, Jr. “We are grateful for the opportunity to partner with our friends at USC Upstate as we con- tinue to expand North Greenville University’s programs in healthcare.”


Te partnership with the Mary Black School of Nursing is one of several hybrid programs already in place at NGU. Currently, the univer- sity has an articulation agreement with Clemson University in engineering, a chiropractic agree- ment with Sherman School of Chiropractic in Spartanburg, and an athletic training graduate degree arrangement with Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, VA.


Negotiations for future partnerships in phar- macy and veterinary science are already in the works.


Learn more about NGU’s academic offerings at ngu.edu/academics.


Pictured from left: Rachel Dobbins (biology ma- jor); Susan Allen (COSAM program coordinator for advanced programs); Dr. Tomas Allen (COS- AM dean); Dr. Gene C. Fant, Jr., (president); Dr. Brendan Kelly (USC Upstate chancellor); Dr. Son- ya Blevins (Mary Black School of Nursing associate dean); and Adriana Vasquez (biology major)


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