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Boquet, Elizabeth; Kazer, Meredith; Manister, Nancy; Lucas, Owen; Shaw, Michael; Madaffari, Valerie; Gannett, Cinthia – Across the Disciplines, 2015
In 2010, Fairfield University, a Jesuit Carnegie Masters Level 1 University located in the Northeast, established its first doctoral-level program: the Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP). In a developing program such as the DNP, some of the most pressing concerns of current rhetoric and writing in the disciplines align and interact with the…
Descriptors: Nurses, Nursing Education, Graduate Students, Nursing Students
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Campbell, Suzanne Hetzel; Crabtree, Robbin D.; Kelly, Patrick – Journal of Catholic Higher Education, 2013
The powerful and complex mandates arising from reports such as "The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health" and "Health Professionals for a New Century: Transforming Education to Strengthen Health Systems in an Interdependent World" challenge colleges and universities to reconsider how they deliver nursing…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Health Sciences, Catholics, Institutional Mission
Whitman, David – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2008
The most exciting innovation in education policy in the last decade is the emergence of highly effective schools in our nation's inner cities, schools where disadvantaged teens make enormous gains in academic achievement. In this book, the author takes readers inside six of these secondary schools and reveals the secret to their success: they are…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Urban Schools, Educational Policy, Educational Innovation