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Mailman School Named One of Four Jonas Center Nursing Scholars Grant Recipients to Help Address Nursing Faculty Shortage
The Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence announced the first four grants in its groundbreaking $2.5 million Jonas Nursing Scholars Program, designed to address the nation’s accelerating shortage of nursing faculty. The Scholars Program supports educational development of new nursing faculty and stimulates models for joint faculty appointments between schools of nursing and clinical affiliates.
The Jonas Scholars grants include six leading academic institutions with graduate nursing programs; three are located in the New York metropolitan area and three are outside the region but are partnering with New York institutions. These grants, made through institutional awards, will fund six doctoral students above the number that schools had planned to admit.
The grantees are:
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Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and Columbia University School of Nursing (One Scholar)
Columbia University School of Nursing and Columbia University’s Irving Institute of Translational Science (Two Scholars)
The City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center and Yale School of Nursing (One Scholar)
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and New York University College of Nursing (Two Scholars)
The program forms the base for a nationwide Nursing Scholars Collaborative led by the Jonas Center. The Collaborative will engage other donors to increase funding for nursing faculty and expand the number of supported doctoral students in the Fall 2008 cohort and fund future cohorts. The Jonas Center’s aim for the Collaborative is to collectively support 25 doctoral nursing students over the next six years and evaluate the progress and impacts of the Scholars Program.
Grantee institutions will select Jonas Scholars from competitive pools of qualified applicants, while considering the applicants’ interest in areas in high demand for nurse educators, such as oncology, geriatrics, mental health, public health, and integrative/holistic care; potential for productive academic work and commitment to education; and capacity to represent racial and ethnic diversity and financial need.
The Jonas Nursing Scholars will have access to collaborate on multi-disciplinary translational clinical research teams and to a variety of clinical programs for dissertation research. Further, during their first semester all Jonas Nursing Scholars will participate in a new Interdisciplinary Research Seminar offered by Columbia University’s Irving Institute of Translational Research.
Full information about grantees and programs is available at www.jonascenter.org.
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