They are closing my nursing program

So what will happen to you and other HSU nursing students now? Will you stay in California and enroll in another nursing program? Or leave, like a lot of people have done.

So what will happen to you and other HSU nursing students now? Will you stay in California and enroll in another nursing program? Or leave, like a lot of people have done.

The OP graduated last year (stated in her first post).

But I am curious what they're going to do for the current students.

What is the nursing job market like in the area? I understand what you're saying about cutting programs that produce graduates that go out and make money, but it seems to me that pretty much all over the country, there are far more new grad nurses than there are nursing jobs. What is the benefit of keeping an expensive program that produces more nurses than the local economy can handle?

They are going to allow those already enrolled to continue.

We might not have the best economy but nursing is one of the last economy and it appears to be dying too. As I said in another post, the hospitals here pay significantly less than the rest of California. Not to many people say, "Hey I want to move to Humboldt County and make half as mucn as I do now". Its the people that live her that need the HSU nursing program to keep nursing in our area around. I Graduated in May; moving 300 miles away to get my BSN was not really ideal on a marrage.

this is indeed a shame,,,when Holistic nursing's role is finally getting recognition....

Just an update:

Congratulations everyone for all your hard work! The HSU Nursing Program has been saved! HSU President Rollin Richmond announced today "Restructure the Nursing program, including reducing the number of students admitted to the program from 60 to 40. Require the program to develop a plan to address numerous organizational challenges." We did it!

”They said (Snyder and Richmond) received 7,000 letters in support of the program,” she said. “This could not have been done without the community support. I think it was pretty cool that we were fighting for the community and the community was fighting for us.”

A lot of people got involved to help save this program. My hospital hosted a 12 hour petition signing with video journaling that was posted on-line and on the hospital web-site.

Stephanie Leach -California Labor and Work Force group through the governor's office. She is in charge of healthcare, specifically nursing, Dolores Jones - head of the California Institute for Nursing Health Care, Louise Baily - new Chair of the Board of Registered nursing and flew in to meet with the University Chairs to discuss their threats to close the program.

There was lots of marches done by the current nursing students. They also hosted additional petition signings at the local farmers markets at which point and interview was done and printed in the local new paper (although there are many articles written as well as letter written to the paper by professionals in support of keeping the program running)

I just came across this post, and I know it's kind of old now, but I was one of the students who was suppose to start in the spring of 2011. They told me personall that I was guaranteed a seat, which lead me to decline my seat in other programs. I got the news just days before Thanksgiving, and, needless to say, I didn't have much to be thankful for that year. I tried everything I could think of to save the program. I sent tons of emails, and eventually no one at HSU would respond to me. Closing this program was a terrible decision, but I try to think that everything happens for a reason, and now I am getting ready to begin an LVN program and take babysteps to getting my BSN!