Board Approves Notificat-On Policy

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LOUIS INSIDE Board approves notificat-on policy BY JOSH RENAUD The policy was developed by a University notifies them with a letter. To accomplish that, campuses will student, if it receives written recom senior editor committee of administrators and stu The policy prevents the University send materials to parents of students mendation from a health care provider dents, headed by Stephen Lehmkuhle, from discussing with parents details of aged 18-21 and encourage them to dis that notification wouldn't be in the stu After spirited discussion, the UM System vice president for an incident without the student's con cuss the consequences of drinking and dents' interest. University of Missouri Board of Academic Affairs. It allows the UM sent. drug use with their children. Parents 'The final version is about as good Curators voted 6-3 to approve a campuses to notify parents of under Gary Grace, vice chancellor for will be presented with the conditions a compromise as the students are parental notification policy at its meet age students after their child commits Student Affairs, said the Board of parental notification and given a going to get, at least those of us who ing March 22. a "severe" initial violation of the stu encouraged administrators not to use choice not to participate in the pro are against it," said Joe Flees, an The idea of parental notification dent conduct code concerning alcohol the policy as a punitive measure, but as gram. UMSL student and member of the has met with some student opposition and controlled substances, or after sub a way to encourage good communica The policy also includes provisions Associated Students of the University on all four UM campuses. The UMSL sequent violations. tion. to exempt students who are married or of 11issouri. "Some of the [exemp SGAAssembly recently passed a reso Students will be given a 48-hour 'They wanted us to encourage can demonstrate fInancial indepen tions] were things that we had suggest- lution urging administrators to consid period to notify their parents on their these issues before [students] come to dence from their parents. The Campus invaded er other altematives. own, if they wish, before the college," he said. University can also choose to exempt see PARENTS, page 9 by gargantuan mutant goose Barnes College battles nursing shortage Violations Where did this monstrous genetic freak of nature come BY DALILA WAHEED prompt from? How will the campus special to The CU1Tent survive? Find out the answers Barnes College of Nursing is internal audit to these and other questions fighting in a battle against the nation in The Stagnant, our annual wide nursing staff shortage, which April Fool's Day parody poses a threat to general health care. at two charter tabloid! The College of Nursing has expe rienced a 50 percent decline in schools ... Tabloid insert emollment since 1994, said Jerry Durham, dean of Bames College of Nursing. BY RHASHAD PITTMAN While nurses are the number one sta./J l1'1"iler providers of healthcare in the coun try, said Durham, the need for them is A charter school official said that an BRIEFS not being met. Last year, in St. Louis "internal audit" of two UMSL-spon alone, there were 1400 nursing open sow:! charter schools is being conduct ings, according to the Missouri ed after the recent discovelY of emoll Nelson accepts Hospital Association, said Durham. ment violations at Thurgood Marshall "[It is] both a curse and a bless Academy. position at UWT ing," said Durham. Doug Thaman is vice president of Students are aware of the short operations at Beacon Educational age, said Peggy Ellis, director of the Management, an education firm that BY TIM THOMPSON MSN Program. oversees the Academy as well as St. staff writer 'They are thrilled of course, Louis Charter School. He said that because it means that they can get a some students who live in the county Jack Nelson has accepted job ea."ily, quickly, and most of them are attending the city school, which is a the position of vice chancellor haVe a choice:' said Ellis. violation of state law. So far, about four for Academic Affairs at the '"It's good for us," said Lisa Koob, students at the Academy have been University of Washington also an accelerated BSN senior. found ineligible, he said. Tacoma. His duties will com "But, at the same time, I don't know. 'The board of that school would mence with the 2001-2002 aca When we get out there we're going to have to make a decision on whether demic year. be overworked and underpaid." they will let dle child finish the school NeLson held the same posi The College of Nursing has year," he said. tion at UMSL for three years implemented programs that will Thaman said the enrollment issue before resigning in the summer attract more students to the nursing carne ab{)ut because some city resi of 2000. He had continued field. dents felt that certain parents of stu working here as a professor in The Accelerated Baccalaureate dents living in the county were provid the philosophy department. Degree Program was created particu ing "fictitious addresses" to send their UWT differs from UMSL in a larly for people who want to change kids to the Academy, a charter school variety of ways . First of all, it career:;. It allows anyone with the located at 4300 Goodfellow Blvd. in is a new campus, having exist proper course work and prerequisites the city. ed for just over a decade. to obtain a degree in 15 months. "There were some city parents who Second, it currently serves only An on-line degree is offered to were aware of county parents sending juniors and seniors. Third, UWT working nurses, who obtain an asso their child to charter schools," he said. is relatively small with a mod ciate degree, or to anyone who has '"A lot of it canle about because a par est array of graduate programs. completed the proper course work. Jennifer Hites, a registered nurse, fills out a patient's chart in the emergency room at Christian ent didn't care for another parent. UMSL and UWT are similar in The College of Nursing has been Northeast Hospital while Sylvester Thmipseed, an emergency medical technician, prepares for Regardless of how it came about, it one way, though. They are busy recruiting high school students. another call. Last year there were 1400 nursing openings in 5t. Louis, according to the Missouri brought OUl issues that needed to be both experiencing rapid growth "If you come straight out of high Hospital Association. The Barnes College of Nursing is working to alleviate this nursing shortage. addressed and resolved." and expansion. In fact, UWT is school you can finish in a little over Under state law, to be eligible to increasing at an annual rate of three ye.ars, with two semesters and that were once for men only, but men passion for medicine and science," cent are under 30." attend charter schools- which are pri nearly 15 percent. summers," said Durham. have not moved to traditionally said Bethany Metz, an accelerated Health care will soon face nurses vately ]Un schools supported by state When asked how he felt 'We have lots of things to offer," women-only fields, said Durham. In BSN senior. "I jll~tlove it and I like who want to slow down, if nut retire, money-students have to live in the about leaving, Nelson said, "I said Durham. "All we need is stu the field of nursing, where 94 percent people, and helping people'"' so there is more shortage projected. city or live in a county school district enjoyed working at UM-St. dents." of nurses are women, that prospect is 'There's so many things you can said Durham, that participates in a voluntary tnlIlsfer Louis, but feel that I accom This nursing shortage is caused by frightening to general healthcare. do with a nursing degree," said Koob. Nursing salaries have been tlat for program, Thaman said. plished as much as I could many variables and is predicted to "The women's movement has "I mean you can work in a hospital, the last five years, said Dumanl. The voluntary transfer program accomplish in St. Louis." only worsen if conditions are not moved women to work out~i de of the you can work in an office, Yl)U can "Caring doesn't pay as much as allows city students to go to schools in Nelson also described his changed. home in fields other than teaching, work in sales, you can go into busi healing or some other jobs," said the county and viee versa, he said.

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