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Meeting the challenges of delivering high-quality nursing education in a rural state, the College of Nursing pioneered distance delivery by developing a statewide nursing program with upper-division (junior/senior-level) campuses located in Montana's major health care cities. |
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| Students complete their upper division course work at one of the established campuses located across the state in Billings, Bozeman, Great Falls, Kalispell, or Missoula. These communities have the range of health care facilities that provide the degree of complexity, size, and diversity of patient population needed for baccalaureate and graduate nursing education. In addition, place bound students can complete lower division courses at any campus. |
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| The College of Nursing serves as a national model for delivering distance educational programs using both teleconference bridge and interactive video. Students are able to access courses utilizing on-line enhancements as well as traditional courses. |
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| Another plan to increase enrollment and meet the demands of the nursing profession is by adding upper division course work, or approximately 16 students each year, to the Bozeman campus. Beginning in fall 2003, the College of Nursing began offering two new graduate options, and in the fall of 2004, the College of Nursing plans to admit upper division students to the Bozeman campus. Once the College of Nursing does this, it anticipates the addition of approximately 48 students. Scholarships for these students are greatly needed in order to offset the costs for distance delivery fees. |
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