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College will ask some students about race as it looks at minority status
Some Metro students can expect a letter in their mailbox soon asking why they did not choose a specific race when applying for enrollment at Metro.

Jessica Greiner, Student Government Assembly vice president for academic affairs, said in the Nov. 4 SGA meeting that the college has 23 percent minority enrollment and is only a few percentage points away from becoming a “minority school” as determined by federal standards.

According to Greiner, 6 percent of the 23 percent of minority students chose “other” or being more than one race when they applied to Metro.

If those students choose one particular race, it could help the college reach the “minority school” status.

Metro Director of Admissions Bill Hathaway-Clark said when students check off more than one race, college officials usually choose the race code that’s underrepresented on campus, but over the past few years those who entered such data have placed those students under the “other” classification.

Hathaway-Clark said federal standards do not allow for students to choose more than one race, but within the next few years that could change.

Nursing Department appoints new chair
Nancy Kiernan Case, who’s worked at Exempla Lutheran Medical Center and Regis University’s Department of Nursing, became the new chair of Metro’s Nursing Department and director of the Accelerated Nursing Program Nov. 1.

As director of the Accelerated Nursing Program, which offers students who already have a bachelor’s degree the chance to start a career in nursing, Case will make sure a group of 31 students complete the program by February.

She also wants to expand the Nursing Department to include more students, especially registered nurses, and offer a four-year undergraduate nursing program.

At Regis University, Case worked for 10 years at the nursing department and then served as director of Workforce Development and Education at Exempla Lutheran Medical Center.

She was also associate dean of the School for Health Care Professions at Regis University.

-compiled by Clayton Woullard

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