Philanthropist Bill Conway to address nursing school groundbreaking
在10月. 25 ceremony celebrates the UNC 护理学院’s new 护理教育大楼.
慈善家威廉？. 小比尔·康威. 会是今年秋季的主题演讲嘉宾吗 破土动工仪式 北卡罗来纳大学护理学院的新 护理教育大楼.
活动将于下午3点举行.m. 10月. 25场在凯南体育场的蓝区, followed by a reception and school-wide expo of student and faculty activities. The celebration is free and open to the public, and all are welcome to attend.
Conway is the co-founder and co-chairman of The Carlyle Group and one of the leading philanthropists supporting nursing education in the United States. 康威和他的妻子, 乔安妮, 今年早些时候谁去世了, made a $5 million commitment to Carolina 护理 in spring 2023 through their Bedford Falls Foundation. It was the largest gift in the school’s history dedicated to student support.
有了这笔投资, the school established the Conway Scholars program, 哪一个, 为期五年, more than doubles the amount of annual scholarship funding available for the school’s baccalaureate program. The gift will also fund an accelerated doctoral program designed to feed the pipeline of nurse educators at a time when the nation faces not only a critical shortage of nurses, but a critical shortage of those needed to teach them. In its inaugural year, the program supports 51 students. 在接下来的五年里, the Conway Scholars Program will support many more nursing students, alleviating some of the financial barriers that stand in the way of their education.
Rendering of the new 护理教育大楼
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著名的华盛顿议员.C.-area philanthropists and supporters of nursing education, the Conways committed more than $300 million to nursing schools over the past decade, placing them among the largest philanthropic supporters of nurses and nursing education in the nation. This gift last March was the Conways’ first to a North Carolina school.
“我们非常感激能够邀请到奥巴马先生. Conway as our keynote speaker at the groundbreaking. His and 乔安妮’s visionary philanthropy and their profound impact on nursing education are as singular and instructive as they are inspiring,” 瓦莱丽•霍华德她是护理学院院长. “He will bring a unique perspective on the rationale for and privileges of supporting our great profession and the students who enter it.”
The 护理教育大楼 is the long-awaited new 110,000 square-foot facility that will replace the outdated 1969 wing of Carrington Hall, 现在学校一半的房子. The building will increase the school’s overall space by 20,000 square feet. It will provide a modern structure complete with the latest technologies to better prepare students for the modern health care environment and to allow for current and future program expansion and more innovative learning opportunities.
比如康威夫妇的礼物, the new building is essential to the school’s plans to admit and educate more students, 最终到2026年将招生人数增加50%, and means more Carolina Nurses entering the workforce to provide quality, compassionate care on the frontlines of health care systems.
