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AACN Partners with AfterCollege
to Establish a Nationwide Nursing Career Network and Scholarship
Program
AfterCollege and the
American Association of Colleges of Nursing to provide career
resources
and scholarships
to students at over 600 nursing schools
WASHINGTON, D.C., December
13, 2006 – Washington, DC – December 13, 2006: The
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and AfterCollege
have formed a strategic partnership that will provide scholarships
and access to job opportunities to tens of thousands of nursing
students nationwide. AACN, in conjunction with AfterCollege,
will award scholarships to nursing students pursuing baccalaureate
and graduate degrees at affiliated nursing schools. At the
same time, AfterCollege will enable students to research relevant
job opportunities from its nationwide network of employers
through Job Resource Centers available on nursing schools’
web sites and through an exclusive
Job Resource Center on the AACN web site.
The partnership provides for an AfterCollege/AACN
Scholarship Program that will award $20,000 in funding
annually to students pursuing baccalaureate and graduate degrees
at constituent AACN schools. Scholarship preference will be
given to students pursuing doctoral degrees as well as students
enrolled in accelerated programs at the baccalaureate and
master’s levels.
AfterCollege currently provides Job Resource
Centers to 317 nursing schools and associations throughout
the country. Through the new partnership, all 600 AACN-member
nursing schools will be able to provide their students and
alumni with targeted job opportunities and announcements at
the local, state and national levels.
“AACN is pleased to commence this new
partnership that will create a new funding opportunity for
nurses enrolled in professional nursing programs as well as
career resources,” said AACN President Jeanette Lancaster.
“We look forward to working with AfterCollege to provide
valuable online resources to assist new and recent graduates
who are searching for the right environment to begin their
nursing practice.”
“We are pleased to align ourselves with
AACN. AfterCollege’s services have been adopted in nursing
communities locally and at the state level throughout the
country, and we see this being a natural fit,” said Marc
Dee, Director of University Relations of AfterCollege. “We
welcome AACN to the AfterCollege Network and look forward
to supporting their schools and helping students find the
best possible opportunities.”
About the American Association of Colleges
of Nursing
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing is the national
voice for university and four-year-college education programs
in nursing. Representing more than 600 member schools of nursing
at public and private institutions nationwide, AACN's educational,
research, governmental advocacy, data collection, publications,
and other programs work to establish quality standards for
bachelor's and graduate-degree nursing education, assist deans
and directors to implement those standards, influence the
nursing profession to improve health care, and promote public
support of baccalaureate and graduate nursing education, research,
and practice. Web site: http://www.aacn.nche.edu.
About AfterCollege Healthcare
AfterCollege Healthcare (www.aftercollegehealthcare.com),
a division of AfterCollege Inc., is the nation's largest career
network specializing in healthcare recruitment at the college
and alumni level. AfterCollege Healthcare provides employers
with direct access to students through a proprietary network
of over 300 partnering nursing schools, 40 state student nursing
associations, as well as other national organizations. Combined,
AfterCollege Healthcare reaches over 65% of all the graduating
nursing students in the country.
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CONTACT: Robert Rosseter
(202) 463-6930, x231
rrosseter@aacn.nche.edu
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