Avila ADVANCING
Avila Answers Call for Nursing Avila University has committed to expand the School of Nursing to allow annual admission of 50 new students entering their junior year. The project is in response to a growing shortage of nurses nationally that will approach 800,000 by 2020. Currently, the School of Nursing has an enrollment of 80 juniors and seniors. The four-year expansion program will cost approximately $1.1 million. Funding for the project is being sought from corporations, foundations, and individuals. At the 29th annual Avila Steer Dinner & Auction $47,880 was raised specifically for the nursing expansion project, with donations still coming in. Some of our other notable gifts include:
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet at $250,000, Menorah Legacy Foundation at $110,000, and DST Systems Inc. at $100,000. Locally, over 860 RNs leave the hospital field each year, and currently The new nursing education resource center is part of the the area does not School of Nursing major expansion project. graduate enough nurses to combat the attrition. Avila resource center is a state-of-theUniversity is responding to the art environment that will facilitate community’s need with immediate student learning and eventual plans to expand classrooms, integration into the health-care laboratories, and faculty. Avila’s workforce. We look forward to School of Nursing is one of Kansas sharing this with Avila nursing City’s oldest and most respected students,” said Dr. Susan Fetsch, programs. professor and dean of the School “The nursing education and of Nursing.
Your Contributions Make a Difference! The alumni grant provides $1,000 annually to full-time, first-year students who are dependents of Avila graduates. The family grant provides $500 annually and is available to immediate members of a family who are concurrently enrolled as full-time Avila undergraduates. The family grant is also available to siblings of an Avila graduate. You can make a difference in an Avila student’s life by contributing to the annual scholarship fund by using the attached envelope or donating online at www.avila.edu/advancement/ dontate.htm. Recipients of the 2005/2006 alumni grant or family grant: Lisa Burks Amanda Campos Blake Carr Ann Chrisman Cameron Cox Bryan Evans Ashley Fieber Allison Fieber Emily Fryer Veronica Gann Lindsey Gibb Jeremy Gleeson Theresa Gleeson Daniel Higgins Angela Jackson Menia Jackson Jennifer Jones
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Jolee Juergens Marshall Juergens Donna Jungman Stacy Jungman Nick Kanatzar Brian Kelly Sean Kelly Jason Loden Erin Mahoney Hollee McGilton Andrew Mead Janice Mead Megan Meinen John Milone Gina Milone Amy Morrison Joshua Oden
Andrew Phillip Veronica Pilshaw Dennis Powell Dawn Roberts Rachel Vantrump Joanna White Jolee White Ashlee Williams Deborah Wise Elizabeth Young
Three of the more than forty recipients of the 2005/2006 alumni or family grants are Donna Jungman, top right, Amanda Campos, left, and Daniel Higgins, bottom right.
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