Administration of Associate Degree Nursing and Support

Administration of Associate Degree Nursing and Support. The MCCB shall allocate appropriations to each community and junior college district for support of Associate Degree Nursing Programs. Guidelines for disbursement of the funds are revised annually. GUIDELINES FOR ADMINISTRATION OF ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSING (ADN) SUPPORT - FY 2006 1. Financial support will be provided for direct costs of public community/junior college programs of associate degree nursing which meet the requirements of the Mississippi Board of Trustees of institutions of Higher learning (BTIHL). Each community and junior college district shall be considered one program. 2. Institutions should strive to maintain the optimum faculty-to-clinical student ratio of (1:10). 3. Appropriate pay for qualified faculty who are actively teaching is encouraged. 4. Support will be allocated based upon the following criteria: a) Minimum positions required for Board of Trustees of Institutions of Higher Learning approval for programs (5 positions); or b) After a new ADN program is approved by the Mississippi Community College Board, it may be funded within that fiscal year with appropriated funds remaining for associate degree nursing at the time of program approval on the basis of the minimum positions required by the BTIHL (5) multiplied by the optimum faculty to clinical student ratio of 1:10 for a maximum number of fifty (50). This basis for allocating ADN support applies only to a newly approved ADN program, it does not apply to expansions of existing approved programs; or c) Enrollment will be used as the means to allocate funds. In FY 06, 2/5 headcount enrollment and 3/5 FTE enrollment will be utilized in the third year of a 5-year phase-in to an FTE formula. Only students enrolled in the nursing science program (excludes pre- nursing, university-transfer nursing) will be used. The source of ADN enrollment figures will come from the Mississippi Community College Board Enrollment Audit Reports. NOTE: Out-of-state as well as Mississippi residents are considered in the enrollment count for Associate Degree Nursing support. 5. Reports may be required as a basis for allocation and future support requests. Reports should be coordinated with Board of Trustees of Institutions of Higher Learning.