Engineering Online Degree | Are men moving from Engineering to Nursing Careers?

Posted by bposton on November 12th, 2006 — Posted in engineering degree online

I saw an interesting stat the other day that said higher wages and job security are prompting more
men to enter the field of nursing.

Which I guess means there’s less men entered the Engineering field? I mean, there are just so many men
to go around, right? :-)

Anyway, according to a Vanderbilt University School of Nursing study, the number of male nurses in
our great nation has almost doubled since the 1980s. Men now represent 9 % of the nations nurses. and
that’s up from 5% in the 1980s.

And just as impressive is that fact that the public’s perception of nursing is getting much better.
A recent Gallup Poll even ranked nursing as the most trusted profession, above teachers, military officers and even doctors.

Wow…

Now for the bad news…sort of.

You may not know it, but there’s a nationwide nursing shortage and it could become a health-care crisis.

According to the Vanderbilt study, although there are 1.8 million nurses today, there could be a shortage of 800,000 nurses by 2020.

And our colleges and universities haven’t been gearing up to address this yet.

According to an enrollment survey by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, more
than 26,000 qualified applicants were turned away from undergraduate programs last year due in
large part to faculty shortages.

In my next post, I’ll explain who some companies and colleges are trying to make headway on this, and,
as in the Loard of the Rings - “they’ve placed their hope on Men”

:-)

Ben

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Engineering degree online : No Child Left Behind…in College?? - Part 2

Posted by bposton on October 21st, 2006 — Posted in engineering degree online

Here’s part 2 of the quote from Eugene Hickok about how the government is trying to making colleges more accountable in how they educate their students.
“The Intercollegiate Studies Institute recently released a report from the National Civics Literacy Board, on which I serve, showing what sort of information the public needs and why it is so important that it be available. The study tracked student knowledge of American history and civics at select colleges and universities, with the goal of determining how much students learn in these subjects over four years of college. They measured the change in knowledge by evaluating freshmen and seniors.

And the results were appalling: college seniors failed the civic literacy assessment with an
average score of 53.2 percent.

This sort of information is important for tuition payers, policy makers and institutional leaders to have when trying to determine the difference a college education can make. Institutions of higher education need to report an academic bottom line.

While they’re at it, colleges and universities must make it a priority that their students graduate. While most tuition payers assume a baccalaureate degree takes four years to complete, the truth is it takes typically more than six years. In 2003, only 34 percent of graduating students had completed their degree in four years or less.

There are reasons for this, some of them understandable. But in far too many institutions, the emphasis is on enrolling students, not on graduating them. And far too often, that includes enrolling students who are not adequately prepared for higher education, and who therefore drop out after one or two semesters of struggling, or else spend most of their time in remedial or developmental courses that are not really college-level. Behind the impressive numbers of low-income and minority students enrolled in higher education are grim statistics regarding completion for a degree.”

Eugene Hickok, a fellow at the Heritage Foundation, was a deputy secretary of education during President Bush’s first term.

The final part 3 of this quote is coming later today…

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