JO ANN M. BAKER, DNP, MSN, RN, FNP Instructional Director, Nursing Delaware Technical Community College Dover, Delaware

HOLLIE K. CALDWELL, PHD, RN Dean, School of Nursing Platt College Aurora, Colorado

AMY M. HALL, PHD, RN, CNE Chair and Professor, Nursing and Health Sciences University of Evansville Evansville, Indiana

JANE E. JUNE, PHD, DNP, RN Dean of Healthcare Quinsigamond Community College Worcester, Massachusetts

GEORGIA MCDUFFIE, PHD, MA, RN Chair and Professor, Nursing Department Medgar Evers College Brooklyn, New York

CATHERINE MCJANNET, MN, RN, CEN Director of Nursing & Health Occupations Programs Southwestern College San Diego, California

DEBBIE J. RAHN. EDD. MSN. RN. FABC Director Reading Hospital School of Health Sciences Reading. Pennsylvania

VIVIAN M. YATES, PHD, RN, CNS Dean of Nursing Cuyahoga Community College Cleveland, Ohio

KATHLEEN ZAJIC, EDD, MSN, RN Chair, Division of Health Professions College of Saint Mary Omaha, Nebraska

NURSING SERVICE REPRESENTATIVES

JESSICA ESTES, DNP, APRN-NP Chief Executive Officer Estes Behavioral Health, LLC Lewisport, Kentucky

RAQUEL PASARON, DNP, APRN, FNP, BC ARNP/Pediatric Surgery Liaison Miaml Children's Hospital Miaml, Florida

MARY JEAN VICKERS, DNP. RN, ACNS-BC, NEA-BC Director of Nursing Practice and Education University of Minnesota Medical Center and University of Minnesota Masonic Hospital Minneapolis, Minnesota

PUBLIC REPRESENTATIVES

ANDREW WALKER FULP Dean, Educational Technology Savannah College of Art and Design Savannah, Georgia

JOHN H. RUSSELL, PhD St. Augustine, Florida

M. Christopher Brown, PhD Interim President Kentucky State University 400 East Main Street Frankfort, KY 40601

This letter is formal notification of the action taken by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) at its meeting on July 20-21, 2017. Please be advised that the Board of Commissioners voted to make all Spring 2017 Accreditation Cycle decisions based on the ACEN 2017 Standards and Criteria, as applicable. The Board of Commissioners granted initial accreditation to the clinical doctorate nursing program and scheduled the next evaluation visit for Spring 2022.

Deliberations centered on the Self-Study Report, the Catalog, the Site Visit Report, and the recommendation for accreditation proposed by the peer evaluators and the Evaluation Review Panel. (See Summary of Deliberations and Recommendation of the Evaluation Review Panel.)

The Board of Commissioners identified the following:

Standard 2 Faculty and Staff, Criterion 2.10

The program faculty and the Director of Distance Learning are to be commended on the quality of the online course templates developed to support the DNP program and for the Quality Matters certification of the faculty.

- Continue to implement institutional strategies to address the default rate.