The Gordon and Betty Moore foundation is donating $100 million dollars to the University of California, Davis, to form a new nursing school. It will be a master’s and doctoral program and and will also support nurses going into research. The school is expected to start admitting students in the fall of 2008, and will serve approximately 456 students.
This is a great way to help address the nursing teacher shortage, which in turn will help ease the nursing school waiting list issue, and then, down the line, the nursing shortage.