Nursing Students Protest Program’s Possible End
Carrying placards and wearing the white coats of their profession, about 100 nursing students and faculty rallied Monday at the University of Southern California to protest the possible closure of the university’s 8-year-old nursing program.
The Los Angeles protest came in reaction to an announcement by university administrators that the program would be reviewed to determine whether USC can afford to continue high-quality nursing education. Such a review is unusual, but does not necessarily lead to a program’s demise, according to Sylvia Manning, executive vice provost and the university’s spokeswoman on the nursing issue.
Students and teachers at the demonstration said they believe that university officials are looking for a reason to close the nursing program because they view it disdainfully as a trade school rather than as an academic discipline.
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