Concerned about budget cuts to higher education.

vegas2009 · Apr 1, 2009

A friend of mine got accepted into CSN's nursing program. Anyway, she said one of the professors has said that if this budget thing goes through, CSN will lose many of it's part-time nursing instructors (most of them teach lab/clinicals). Part-time instructors have the "real world experience" since they are currently IN the nursing field working for other facilities in the valley. It's a shame 'coz there are CSN full-time instructors at all semesters that students want to steer away from. I suppose they're just going to accept less students for both RN & LPN programs? I mean for every full-time instructor, there is a limit on how many students per section (lecture/lab/clinical) they'll be teaching. More students will compromise the quality? -- oops, there goes the NCLEX first time pass rates?

Yoshi24 · Apr 2, 2009

Hey I talked to an adviser and one of the program professors about this. Apparently with the new stimulus package very little or nothing will be cut from the RN or LPN programs relative to the rest of the school because they are of critical need for the state and Nevada wont get stimulus money unless it proves that it is putting money toward higher ed. So hopefully nursing will be ok for now.

NVhike · Apr 2, 2009

a friend of mine got accepted into csn's nursing program. anyway, she said one of the professors has said that if this budget thing goes through, csn will lose many of it's part-time nursing instructors (most of them teach lab/clinicals).
i heard about this, but yea, the stimulus package will help but don't colleges & universities have to prove something before they get the package? i saw it in the news, the state schools don't automatically qualify. they have to apply for it or something? this is why there was that student protest at unlv a week and a half ago. lord, i hope csn gets that package, there's a number of full-time professors i hear make students withdraw! i've met rn students from upper semesters and they all tell me the same thing (they're still in the program though). some of these professors are hard to avoid.