Attention all present and potential EC nursing students:
You may have trouble getting government jobs. You may have trouble getting accepted to some private universities you would like to attend. Why?

If you didn’t know by now, EC has voluntarily withdrawn from being considered by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN).

There are three areas of the nursing program that ACEN has reviewed it has found the program lacks in some areas what is necessary to be accredited by its commission.

Students should and have the right to be outraged by this, now EC has released in a statement that some scholarships and grants are not available to students that attend ACEN accredited schools.

How many scholarships are available to those that do attend ACEN accredited college compared to those that are not?

This is information that the college should have available for students that ask.

The college needs to be upfront and provide the students with an avenue to succeed in the areas that they’d like to move into.

It must be a small number of free money that is lost to students while the program is accredited by ACEN.

Along with the grants and scholarships the college also wasn’t meeting requirements in regard to faculty paperwork, some faculty did not have necessary paperwork to verify academic credentials.

This brings up the question, who is the college hiring to teach their nursing classes?

Now while most have all the credentials that they need, it’s concerning to know that a governing commission has found some of EC’s faculty lacking at all.

The college needs to be extremely proactive to make sure that this isn’t a long-term withdraw.

Yes, this is a voluntary opt-in accreditation commission, but there was a reason the college decided to do join in the first place.

ACEN is something to benefit any college student that attends a college that is accredited by it.

Even though the college has been warned in the past with its academic accreditation, it has always made valiant efforts to be compliant in all areas.

ACEN may be voluntary, but the sooner the nursing program is able to get back up to par the better.

It will not only benefit current students, but it will also provide future students with another incentive to join EC’s nursing program.

EC president Tom Fallo, once told the Union you can’t rest on your laurels and say “we’ve been a great college and we don’t need to continuously get better.”

So, here’s to the higher ups over at the Nursing program in hopes that it will once again and in the near future, be fully accepted by ACEN and will once again be even more highly regarded nursing program in the state.

EC is known for having the highest quality programs and it’s expected that the nursing program will be back on top.

Voluntarily or not, the goal is to always be better.