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Alice Lloyd College partners with EKU to improve healthcare, retain talent in Appalachia

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PIPPA PASSES, Ky. — Alice Lloyd College has partnered with Eastern Kentucky University on a partnership designed to increase the number of nurses in rural Eastern Kentucky. Under the program, up to ten well-qualified students will take their general pre-nursing requirements at Alice Lloyd and then transfer to EKU to complete the requirements for a bachelor of science in nursing. Upon completion of the program, students will receive bachelor’s degrees from both Alice Lloyd and EKU.

Alice Lloyd will continue to provide support for these students for while they are at EKU. These public-private partnership are innovative ways to provide opportunities for students while addressing the serious healthcare and economic needs of rural, Appalachian Kentucky.

As the release on Alice Lloyd’s website explains:

Alice Lloyd College’s decision to launch a pre-nursing program was guided by a proposed increase in the need for bachelor degree-level nurses in eastern Kentucky. Demographics have indicated a dramatic shift in the rural Appalachian population from a youth-dominated population to an aging population. In light of these statistics, the need for healthcare providers in the region – a region from which Alice Lloyd recruits exclusively – is sure to grow.

“I think this is a wonderful opportunity for our students in this area to stay close to home and complete a bachelor-level degree in the field of nursing,” said Dr. Claude Crum, Alice Lloyd’s Academic Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs. “We are proud to partner with Eastern Kentucky University to make this opportunity available to our students.”

Due to the region’s current economic struggles and the continuing decline in demand for central Appalachian coal, the region has seen a significant growth in unemployment. In an effort to retain many of Appalachia’s brightest and best students, the plan devised by Alice Lloyd and Eastern Kentucky University would provide a high-quality education for young people interested in remaining in the region as healthcare professionals.

Alice Lloyd already had a similar arrangement with the University of Kentucky that provides space for two Alice Lloyd students in UK’s nursing program.

We applaud these partnerships that provide additional options for students while addressing Kentucky’s workforce needs. Many AIKCU institutions have “3-2” programs in select disciplines like engineering that allow students to take the first three years of general requirements at their home school and then complete two years of specialty study at a public institution. Another recent example of an innovative public-private collaborations is the agreement between Transylvania University and the University of Kentucky that allows Transy students to take pre-engineering requirements at UK while still enrolled at Transy.

 

 


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