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Gaining Financial Freedom: Your Guide to Financial Planning for Nurses

Student Loan Planner

Nurses play a central role within the broad landscape of healthcare, dedicating their lives to the well-being of others. However, nurses encounter unique opportunities and challenges that require a thoughtful approach to financial planning.

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Changing the Face of Nursing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the summer of 2014, Crystal Jackson was working as a manager of nurse education in Ferguson, Missouri. The situation that Jackson faced is just one of the many difficulties that can confront nurses from minoritized backgrounds. Such nurses represent just 19.4% This paucity is mirrored in academia, where only 19.2%

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Access Must be Front Burner for Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, community colleges across the country saw a decline in enrollment for myriad reasons — financial, family, illness, lack of internet or inability to adapt to online learning. Lee said funding needs to be cultivated from hospital systems desirous of building their nursing workforce.

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Panel Spotlights Registered Apprenticeships at MSIs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Sound Transit, the local transit authority, was planning to build a rail network from several smaller communities to Seattle and was pro jecting a 10,000-person labor shortage over the next two decades. AAMU is hoping to offer RAs in psychology, counseling, and eventually STEM fields.

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Featured Partner Scholarships: December 2023 (Part 1)

Scholarship America

In today’s Part 1, we have amazing $10,000 renewable scholarships from the Essential Visionaries Scholarship Fund (for aspiring nurses, teachers and counselors) and the GE-Reagan Foundation—plus a unique memorial award for students planning on culinary school. Applicants with the greatest financial need will be prioritized.

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Featured Partner Scholarships: February/March 2023

Scholarship America

Their specific focus is on preparing students from low-income and historically underserved communities for careers in financial services, and they work with a prestigious group of partner schools that provide evidence-based support programs for this group of students majoring in fields related to the financial services and technology industries.

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Featured Partner Scholarships: January 2023

Scholarship America

They include a new renewable award for students in education, counseling and nursing; an expanded award for culinary students; and unique programs for survivors and families of childhood cancer and cystic fibrosis (CF). scale and demonstrate financial need. . Don’t see a program that fits you? scale (or its equivalent).