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.