Departmental Self Review - UCLA Academic Senate

3) Benefits: Increasing support will encourage students to apply to our program and get to theirdegree in a timely manner. Increasing support will allow us to move the students throughfaster, thus allowing for more students to enter the program.4) Current Status: The current curriculum requires our students to be on campus a minimum of2 days/week and sometimes 3 days per week. This curriculum makes it extremely difficultfor our students to work fulltime. Currently, most of our students receive fee waivers orreductions, but most are working full-time outside the Univ. This full-time work prevents thestudents from making progress on their degrees.5) Strategies:a) Faculty needs to mentor the students into writing nrsa’s.b) Faculty could write student support into their grants.c) We need to encourage all students to apply for any financial aid, especially in theirareas of study.d) Ask the development office to assist us with identifying possible areas that a donormight support.e) Write pre and post doc-training grants.f) Encourage students to use university housing.g) Petition graduate division for the quality of education grant money and for othersupport (e.g. Another Cota Robles or other fellowships.h) Encourage students to apply for scholarships in their area of study from outsidesources e.g. Oncology nursing, gerontology, etc.i) Measurement Indicators: The applicant pool increases6) Resources and Cost: There would need to be a commitment of faculty time7) Time Line: Institute immediately and monitor over the next 5 years.IV. Increase The Pool Of Socio And Economically DisadvantagedStudents In All Undergraduate And Graduate Programs1) Objective: Increase the pool of socio and economically disadvantaged students in allundergraduate and graduate programs.2) Rationale: Health providers should match the patient population. The provision of culturallyappropriate health care should come from culturally sensitive health care providers.3) Benefits: Increasing the pool of socio and economically disadvantaged students will allowmore students to enter the health care field.4) Current Status: Although the School of Nursing has a diverse student population, the percentof Latino and African American students does not match the patient population.5) Strategies:a) To work with the advisory groups of Latino and Pan African-American students.b) To identify those schools with historically black colleges with schools of nursing andwork with their students.c) To continue with the summer prep program to assist students in the transfer process.d) To work with professional nursing organizations to identify applicants.e) To hold and attend open counseling sessions.238