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                          As more traditional colleges close their nursing programs, 
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                              <p><strong>Where traditional schools have discontinued 
                                their nursing programs, for-profit&#8212;or proprietary&#8212;colleges 
                                are helping fill the void. These institutions, 
                                which aren&#8217;t at the mercy of federal and 
                                state funds, and which tend to be more sensitive 
                                to market forces than traditional colleges and 
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                        <p>Enrollment in entry-level baccalaureate nursing programs 
                          grew 16.6 percent in 2003&#8212;good news for the nationwide 
                          nursing shortage, which a Web site sponsored by Johnson 
                          &amp; Johnson estimates to be at more than 100,000 vacant 
                          nursing positions.</p>
                        <p>But baccalaureate nursing programs also turned away 
                          more than 11,000 qualified students&#8212;more than 
                          twice the number of students turned away in 2002, according 
                          to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.</p>
                        <p>In order to reverse the shortage, the enrollment of 
                          young people in nursing programs would have to increase 
                          at least 40 percent each year to replace the nurses 
                          expected to leave the workforce through retirement, 
                          the association said.</p>
                        <p>Clearly, prospective students are interested in nursing 
                          and health care facilities are clamoring for nurses. 
                          But with recent federal and state budget cuts, traditional 
                          colleges and universities have been unable to expand 
                          and add enough faculty members to meet demand.</p>
                        <p>Even some private schools are ending their nursing 
                          programs. While the University of Southern California 
                          is graduating its last nursing students in the spring, 
                          Syracuse University is phasing out its nursing program 
                          in 2006, according to an article in the Chronicle of 
                          Higher Education.</p>
                        <p>Michael Diamond, a vice president at USC, told the 
                          Chronicle that USC&#8217;s nursing program did not fit 
                          into the strategic goals of the university.</p>
                        <p>Maureen Thompson, Ph.D., APRN, director of Syracuse 
                          University&#8217;s School of Nursing, said the university 
                          decided to discontinue its program in part because it 
                          wanted to focus its resources on maintaining the high 
                          rankings of some of its other, nationally ranked programs&#8212;even 
                          though enrollment in the nursing program had increased 
                          for two years before the program stopped admitting students.</p>
                        <p>For-profit&#8212;or proprietary&#8212;colleges, however, 
                          are helping fill the void. These institutions, which 
                          aren&#8217;t at the mercy of federal and state funds, 
                          and which tend to be more sensitive to market forces 
                          than traditional colleges and universities, have begun 
                          to add and expand their nursing programs.</p>
                        <p>Last summer, Education Management Corp., which has 
                          66 primary campus locations in the United States and 
                          Canada, did not offer any nursing degrees. However, 
                          since then, the company has acquired six institutions 
                          that do, and plans to add more nursing programs, according 
                          to the Chronicle article.</p>
                        <p>Keiser College, a multicampus system in Florida, added 
                          a nursing program to its Sarasota campus in the fall 
                          and plans to offer nursing education on two more campuses, 
                          the article said.</p>
                        <p>Corinthian Colleges and Concorde Career College also 
                          are expanding their nursing programs. Corinthian, which 
                          operates two licensed professional nursing schools in 
                          Indiana and Michigan, has a licensed vocational nursing 
                          program scheduled to begin in Anaheim, Calif., in June, 
                          and plans to start more nursing programs across the 
                          country.</p>
                        <p>Concorde, which has 12 campuses nationwide, has VN/PN 
                          programs at eight campuses and is preparing to add registered 
                          nursing programs, said Barbara Johnson, RN, Concorde&#8217;s 
                          national director of nursing education.</p>
                        <p>Mary Barry, executive vice president for academic affairs 
                          at Corinthian, said proprietary schools are uniquely 
                          qualified to have nursing programs because they generate 
                          their own investment money. Also, Barry said, Corinthian 
                          already maintains small class sizes of about 20 to 25 
                          students maximum per classroom. State boards of nursing 
                          require nursing classrooms to maintain certain student-to-teacher 
                          ratios, similar to patient-to-nurse ratios in hospitals.</p>
                        <p>Instructors also are required to be active in helping 
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