magazine Grand View University Fall 2012 THE NEW WORLD OF COLLEGE SELECTION 8 president’s PEN Computers and information technology “techies” and futurists predict online have become part of our lives. We can universities will completely replace college hardly function without them. With campuses. Other industry analysts suggest various devices all around us, we have that the “business model” of a typical constant access to people and information. campus-based institution is not sustainable. We can do everything from airport check-in Yet here at Grand View, even as we to rebalancing our retirement portfolio by roll out state-of-the-art technologies to Courselves, electronically, and whenever it is help us and our students do a variety of convenient for us. things “online,” we also are building our So it is for colleges and universities. next residence hall. We’re planning for We are using information technologies additional classroom space. And we to do more and more of the business of have our sights set on a new/expanded operating the institution. We also are Student Center. placing more capabilities in the hands I maintain that we humans learn of our students. Students check their to use new tools all the time. Tools and grades, register for classes, and schedule technological advances change the way tutoring sessions online; they can report we do things, but they do not change maintenance issues and receive refund human nature. When Alexander Graham checks electronically. We use a variety of Bell invented the telephone, we could visit electronic means (email, Facebook, Twitter) friends without travelling to their physical to communicate with students, alumni, location. Yet the telephone did not make friends, and prospective students. us any less social as human beings, nor did In the pages that follow, you it reduce our desire to travel so we could will read about the capabilities of our be with other people. On the contrary, the new Admissions website. It truly goes phones we have (now cellular) and the cars beyond industry standards in terms of we drive simply make it easier for us to stay its capabilities to customize information in touch with friends, family, and business for each applicant. From a prospective colleagues. student’s perspective, the amount of the The introduction of computers into college search process that can be done the workplace prompted prognosticators online is amazing. at the time to suggest our workplaces PHOTO: JIM HEEMSTRA So where is all of this going? Some would become paperless and that GV AND IOWA THE BIG THE NEW HEALTH JOIN DREAM WORLD OF TO MEET BSN GATHERING COLLEGE INITIATIVE 2 6 SELECTION Collaboration offers RN to GV campus and the metro Technology is changing BSN program at the hospital, community were inspired to the way students increasing the number of think big and find connections search and make registered nurses with a BSN. to go after big dreams. college selections. office buildings could be much smaller, place when humans are together in the because the majority of employees would same place. work remotely. Neither of those things A line from our new Vision Statement, happened. which points us in a direction for our Why then are we so willing to believe future, sums it up best: “…we will blend our university campuses will become ghost- the strengths of engaging and interactive towns? Learning is still a social enterprise. in-class experiences with appropriate Growing and developing as a whole person technologies to enrich learning and extend magazine (part of our mission) requires belonging our reach.” The line before that says we to and interacting with a community. The will, “preserve the virtues of independent, information technology tools we use can residential, church-related liberal arts FALL 2012 make certain tasks more efficient, more education for future generations.” That’s VOLUME 61, NUMBER 3 immediate, or perhaps more engaging. because we know the value of assembling Editor LACIE SIBLEY ’07 But the basics of what we do require a community of scholars and learners. Designer KElly (DEVRIES ’00) DANIEL human interaction. And the line before that says we will, Contributing Writer CAROL BAMFORD, Molly BROWN, RACHELLE MITCHELL Besides the investments we make “afford this opportunity to all qualified Photographers DOUGLAS APPLEBY, JIM HEEMSTRA, in technology to improve administrative students, including those who have been DOUG WELLS functions, we also invest in technologies under-represented in college populations.” that will improve learning. And in some That requires us to use technologies in Board of Trustees Chair PaUL E. SCHICKLER cases, these new tools make it possible administrative areas to make us more Karen (Sorensen ’70) Honorary Members for students to do some of their learning efficient and effective so we can keep our Brodie Marcia H. Brown Michael L. Burk Garland K. Carver online and outside the traditional costs down. Eric W. Burmeister H. Eugene Cedarholm Gregory J. Burrows Phillip D. Ehm ’51 classroom. Yet, plenty of the research Visit us online! But what you’ll find is C. Dean Carlson Thomas R. Gibson in higher education suggests the best the same Grand View that has existed here Mary C. Coffin Larry D. Hartsook ’63 Eric T. Crowell ’77 Michael N. Hess learning outcomes are achieved when for generations. And we are committed Robert S. DeWaay J. Robert Hudson these electronic methods of learning are to making sure our core values and basic Bao Jake “B.J.” Do Theodore M. Hutchison Virgil B. Elings ’58 Richard O. Jacobson blended with in-class experiences. Few strengths are here for years to come. Brett E. Harman Charles S. Johnson purely online courses produce the same Scott M. Harrison Timothy J. Krumm Nick J. Henderson Robert E. Larson or better learning outcomes. And as for Kent L. Henning James E. Luhrs the development of relational, leadership, Laura L. Hollingsworth Elton P. Richards Richard W. Hurd ’72 John P. Rigler and social skills, the virtual worlds we’ve KENT HENNING Carey G. Jury ’70 Clayton L. Ringgenberg created have not replicated what takes PRESIDENT José M. Laracuente Robert L. Mahaffey ’58 James W. Noyce Gary E. Palmer ’72 Sandra K. (Jensen ’57) Rasmussen Dawn Taylor Martha A. Willits ON THE COVer… GV Magazine is published three times annually by the Marketing Department at Grand View University and is distributed at no charge to alumni and friends of the institution. Constituents are encouraged to send contributions, suggestions and information for Alumni News to: Lacie Sibley, Editor; Grand View University; 1200 Grandview Avenue; Des Moines, IA 50316-1599 515-263-2832; [email protected] or fill out the Prospective form online at www.grandview.edu. 8 students find new ways Grand View University to search for 1200 Grandview Avenue colleges. Des Moines, Iowa 50316-1599 PHOTO: 515-263-2800 800-444-6083 JIM HEEMSTRA www.grandview.edu on the ROCK GV AND IOWA HEALTH JOIN FORCES TO MEET BSN INITIATIVE BY RACHELLE MITCHELL, MANAGER OF EVENTS AND PUBLICITY Grand View has a long history of Health. This report recommends whom have not earned the BSN. collaborating with Iowa Health institutions and stakeholders remove Cherry Shogren, director of Clinical Des Moines for clinical arrangements barriers to encourage nurses to move Professional Development at Iowa Health, and professional development for nurses. from the RN level to completion of the is enthusiastic about continuing the Iowa Health Des Moines approached BSN. The Institute of Medicine has relationship with Grand View. Grand View about offering its blended challenged the nursing profession to “We’ve done a variety of things with GRN to BSN program at the hospital, move the profession to 80% of nurses Grand View, including having academic in order to support its nursing staff holding a BSN or higher level of education clinical professors being our front-line and the hospital mission to increase by 2020. In Iowa, this is a lofty goal staff supporting our conversations. the number of registered nurses with because only 40% of the 46,000 active There’s a long history with Grand View; the BSN credential. Grand View has a registered nurses hold a BSN or higher this new collaboration is so exciting longstanding nursing program, which (Iowa Nursing Workforce: Relevant Facts, because it allows us to utilize a program currently offers – on GV’s main campus Iowa Board of Nursing, June 2010). that Grand View’s established in a way – the traditional BSN degree, an RN to At the Future of Nursing Summit, that adds meaning to our staff, and BSN degree, and a graduate degree in participants decided to support the goal professional growth opportunity to Innovate Leadership with a track for the of 80% of nurses in Iowa holding a BSN really set their future to take leadership Clinical Nurse Leader. by 2020. Each hospital was responsible roles in nursing and improve our patient In November 2011, Iowa nursing for how they would meet the initiative. outcomes,” Shogren said. educators and nursing administrators For Iowa Health Des Moines, it meant Research shows that having more met at the Future of Nursing Summit in reducing the barriers to achieve a BSN bachelors’ prepared nurses providing Des Moines to discuss the impacts of the by offering an RN to BSN program on patient care positively impacts patient Institute of Medicine’s report, The Future site. Currently, Iowa Health Des Moines outcomes and reduces patient mortality. of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing employs approximately 1,500 RNs, many Dr. Debra Franzen, head of the GV FALL EVENTS One of the newest clubs on campus, Stand Up 2 Cancer (SU2C), hosted a walk-a-thon event Thursday, September 13, with 33 participants who walked or ran more than 450 laps.