Join us in Empowering Health

We are adamant in our commitment to advance nursing education and research. Your strategic investment today will empower our school to:

• Meet the financial needs of our students by increasing the number and size of scholarships to ensure that the most promising and passionate students are able to choose nursing
• Support research projects ranging from small-scale feasibility studies to predictive modeling that employs our school’s field-shaping expertise in big data science
• Recruit and retain outstanding nurse educators who will teach hundreds of nursing students over their careers and strengthen our ability to attract funding for ground-breaking, faculty-led research

Preparing nurse leaders

We aspire to increase the number and size of scholarships to remove the financial barriers that prevent promising students from applying and enrolling. Recruitment and retention of students of color and men in nursing are high priorities, and offering more scholarships to prelicensure students will support these goals.

Expanding our Doctor of Nursing Practice and PhD programs — both leading programs in the country — will ease dire shortages in primary care and address nursing faculty shortages. Scholarships for doctoral students will enable more nurses to choose graduate school, borrow and work less, and complete their degrees on time.

We celebrate the generosity that has helped us reach 82% of our $33 million goal. Endowed scholarships and fellowships are investments with unlimited return — a skilled nursing workforce in the time of shortage, trusted care to patients and communities, and a perpetual partnership that impacts health care in Minnesota and around the world.

Transforming research

The School of Nursing is empowering health with the discovery of new approaches, interventions and prevention strategies. As the cost of health care continues to increase, and the disparities widen, nurse scientists are well positioned to find simple solutions to complex health problems.

Increasingly, we rely on philanthropy to conduct preliminary studies to test methodology and show an approach is viable. Examples of privately-funded research currently underway at the School of Nursing include preventing diabetes in children in rural Minnesota, improving diagnosis and treatment of peripheral artery disease, and helping children thrive through their chemotherapy treatment.

We are only 15% toward our $6 million goal to advance nurse-led research. Your investment will help transform ideas into groundbreaking results that not only impact our lives, but lay the path for innovation beyond our lifetimes.

Ensuring forward-thinking faculty

Outstanding faculty at the School of Nursing lead the way with their field-shaping research and their ability to inspire students and colleagues alike. As leaders in the school, they set the tone, the pace and the standard for excellence. Forty-five percent of the school’s current faculty are eligible to retire in the next five years, while our programs continue to grow. This is requiring us to redouble our efforts to recruit and retain the very best.

Recruiting and retaining top nursing and research talent is a highly competitive endeavor. Professorships and chairs are essential tools that enable academic institutions to attract and keep their most creative, driven and productive leaders.

Professorships and chairs at the School of Nursing are used to support faculty in pushing the boundaries of their work, providing them with the time, thinking space and resources to excel in their field and empower health.

To date, we are 49% toward our $6 million goal. Investments to ensure forward-thinking faculty will bring brilliant minds to classrooms today and ensure the education of future health care practitioners, faculty and scientists remains exemplary.