- Distinguished professorship named in honor of Chancellor Bardo
- Fall commencement set for Dec. 19 at Ramsey Center
- Nursing degree can be earned in one year through ABSN program
- WCU novelist Ron Rash wins second Sir Walter Raleigh Award
- Senior named top mathematics education student in region
- Bids opened for new MAHEC building; part of venture with WCU, UNCA
- Board of trustees approves proposed tuition, fees for 2010-11
- Steps toward WCU-Dillsboro partnership continue with campus tour
- Students win national awards at mediation tournament
- 'Meeting Doctor' to lead Jan. 21 workshop at WCU
A proposal to help foster a worldwide dialogue about the impending nursing shortage earned the $500 travel grant award this year from Western Carolina University’s Delta Zeta Chapter of the Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars.
Sharon Metcalfe and Bonnie Garner, both assistant professors of nursing at the Enka campus, traveled to the United Kingdom to explore possible partnerships with nursing departments overseas. As a result, Western nursing students will travel this March to Wales and England as part of a pilot course designed to help students develop an international perspective of nursing leadership. The students will study and mentor with nurses at the School of Caring Sciences at the University of Glamorgan in Wales, and the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at Kings College in England.
“We hope to establish an ongoing reciprocal educational relationship with these institutions to address mutual professional nursing issues, such as the international nursing and nursing faculty shortages and gerontology health care needs,” said Metcalfe.
For more information, contact Sharon Metcalfe or Bonnie Garner at (828) 670-8810.