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2007 News

Undergraduate Nursing Honors Program - Pending Approval

The University of Texas at Austin, School of Nursing is pleased to announce that it will be taking applications for the new Undergraduate Nursing Honors Program. The Undergraduate Nursing Honors Program is designed to enhance the educational experience of high achieving undergraduate nursing majors by focusing on the development of scholarship. Students whose official cumulative GPA's is 3.45 or above are elgible to apply to this competitive honors program. The program will start at the beginning of their sophomore year.

Admission to the Nursing Honors Program requires acceptance by the Honors Program Committee. Acceptance into the honors program will confer automatic acceptance into the professional sequence of nursing, contingent upon maintaining competitive overall and science grade point averages.

Requirements for the Nursing Honors Program are:

- completion of honor's sections of Introduction to Nursing Scholarship (N117H), Nursing Research (N264H), Ethics of Health Care (N311H), and Leadership and Management of Nursing Care (N377H); and

- completion of an honor's project prior to graduation with a focus in research, ethics, or leadership.

Application packets are available in Student Affairs. Student applications with an official cumulative GPA's of less than 3.45 will not be reviewed. For questions about the Honor's Program, please contact Dr. Gayle Timmerman, Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at 471-9087.

Deadline for applications is March 19th.

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