Re: Nursing Program @Grand Canyon University
It is so hard to get into a pre-licensure nursing program right now, that I say get in where ever you can and be grateful.
I do think RN-BSN program choices are different, though. It's not so competitive to get into these programs. Taking this into consideration, it seems quite reasonable to me, that some would rather not earn their BSNs from GCU.
I doubt that the GCU degree is questioned at all. Rather, it's that some of us deeply care about our education and want a different focus.
One major goal of higher education is to expand one's exposure to differences in the world. Every secular institution that I've looked at has this goal, of requiring non-Western and cultural understanding liberal arts course work.
It's extremely valuable to get students out of their Western and often-times Protestant, automatically ethnocentric perspectives and learn about other other cultures and other ways of being.
So for a bachelor's degree to further educate and entrench students in Western Protestantism rather than expand their understanding of the world and other ways of being - seems to fly in the opposite direction to me.
That said, we all have the freedom (and thank goodness we do) to choose for ourselves. So if someone wants the CGU experience and further Western-Protestant education, that is ok, and I'll sincerely respect that person's choice.
But for me, that would be the antithesis to what I want from college. Like Cardiac, I care about my education deeply. I want my understanding of the world expanded, not narrowed through the lens of Christianity.
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