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Cossatot Community College |
LPN/LPTN-to-RN Program Receives Check from Weyerhaeuser
Foundation
24 September 2004
DE QUEEN – Cossatot Community College – UA received
a grant for its new RN training program today from the Weyerhaeuser Foundation,
according to Nursing and Allied Health Division Chair Kim Dickerson. In a
brief ceremony held in the College’s Board room, Dickerson received
a check for $19,750 from Rhonda Hunter, the Arkansas/Oklahoma Timberlands
manager for Weyerhaeuser. Weyerhaeuser Foundation representatives attending
were Becca Austin, Governmental Affairs Officer for Arkansas, and Richard
Chapman, the Foundation’s Governmental Affairs Manager for Arkansas,
Oklahoma and Texas.
Also participating in the ceremony were Nursing & Allied Health instructors
Kim Ganous, Jan Lowery and Charlotte McKamie, Biology/Anatomy and Physiology
instructor Crystal Bentley, Nursing Program Administrative Assistant Margie
Kerst, and Joe Hodges, a 2004 graduate of the College’s LPN program,
who is currently enrolled in pre-requisite courses for the LPN/LPTN-to-RN
transition program.
“We were very pleased to be able to make this presentation,” Hunter
said. “We wanted to make sure that we were on the ground floor in helping
this program get started.” Dickerson said, “This money will be
used to purchase new training equipment, which will be used by our students
in the RN training program as well as our LPN, EMT, and Medical Assisting
programs.”
Cossatot Community College offers both technical certification and Associate’s
degrees in a wide range of fields on its campus at De Queen, at extension
sites at Nashville and Ashdown, and at cccua.edu. It has an enrollment of
more than 1,000 students, and is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission
of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
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