Date: 10/03/2005

San José State University's School of Nursing will increase nursing enrollment by 30 percent and renovate its Nursing Learning Resource Centers (skills lab, library and computer lab), thanks to funding from The Valley Foundation, announced the university today. The nursing student enrollment project will fund an additional 22 students per semester in the university's bachelor of science degree program over a five-year period, beginning in spring 2006. By fall 2010, 100 additional graduates will be prepared to enter the Santa Clara County's highly complex healthcare workforce. According to Jayne Cohen, director of the School of Nursing, San José State educates the vast majority of baccalaureate-prepared registered nurses in Santa Clara County. See www.sjsu.edu/news/news_detail.jsp?id=1410.