CAMPUS NEWS
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FALL 2014
New Family Nurse Practitioner Degree GSW partners with Columbus State to offer new degree At their October meeting, the University System of Georgia Board of Regents approved the state’s newest master’s degree in nursing through a partnership between Georgia Southwestern State University and Columbus State University. A Master of Science in Nursing with a major in Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) will be delivered completely online beginning in January 2015. Georgia Southwestern will collaborate with Columbus State on the use of faculty resources to support the program, and both institutions have developed a memorandum of understanding concerning the operation of the program. However, students who take classes through the Georgia Southwestern School of Nursing will receive a degree from GSW. The FNP program consists of a total of 44 semester hours, all online. It also requires 765 clinical hours, which will be completed in facilities and with preceptors that have been approved by the FNP Program Coordinators from Georgia Southwestern State University and Columbus State University. The clinical sites will be located as close to the student’s geographic residence or local community as possible.
2014-15 Featured Scholar Laurel Robinson named GSW featured scholar Laurel Robinson, professor of art and Department of Visual Arts chair, has been named Georgia Southwestern State University’s 2014-15 Featured Scholar. President Kendall Blanchard made the announcement this past November. Robinson’s work away from Georgia Southwestern – range and volume – has been extensive. She has held dozens of exhibitions featuring her work in places like Los Angeles, New York City, Pittsburgh, Australia, China, Israel, and many locales in between; she has been featured in or has authored 15 published works; and Robinson has permanent collections housed at the Cincinnati Museum of Art, the Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, the Jewish Museum in New York City and in the List College Collection at Columbia University in New York City. Additionally, Robinson is the founding art director (1997-present) at Camp Ramah Darom, a Jewish children’s camp in Clayton, Ga., and she was President Jimmy Carter’s private art instructor for two years. Robinson earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting/drawing/art history and a Master of Fine Arts in painting from the University of Cincinnati. With an interest in science, math and sociology, she has done post-graduate work in physics, paleoecology, math, sculpture, psychology, sociology, semiotics, advanced Hebrew, Spanish and the Romanian language at the University of California Los Angeles, the University of Tasmania in Australia, the University of Tel-Aviv in Israel (where she also served as a professor for one year), and Georgia Southwestern. President Blanchard initiated the Featured Scholar Award in 2008 to recognize, once a year, a GSW faculty member who has made significant contributions to his or her discipline in the form of artistic accomplishment, basic research, writing, publishing, editing, presenting and grant awards. The award recipient is chosen by a committee of faculty members that represent each school and are selected by the Faculty Senate chaired by the past recipient of the award. The award carries a stipend of $500.
