The School of Nursing will say good bye this December to UMKC's first class of cybergrads. Nearly 30 nursing students from Joplin, who have been attending nursing school via interactive television through UMKC, will receive their diplomas in the same manner they attended classes. The graduates, the first from UMKC's new cooperative distance learning program with Missouri Southern State College in Joplin, will receive their master's degrees in nursing at the graduation ceremony at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, in Webster Hall Auditorium in Joplin. On passing the national certification examination for family nurse practitioners, the graduates will be ready to go into the community to provide primary health care to individuals from diverse backgrounds in a variety of settings, such as community health centers, HMOs, school-based clinics and physicians' offices located in metropolitan and rural areas. All Things Being Equal Students who want to know if courses they've taken at other institutions have an equivalent at UMKC have a new tool at their disposal.
Users select the name of the institution, then the department through which the course was taken.
The course name is listed, along with the UMKC course title and number. Courses from more than 80 institutions are listed. As an added bonus, students can follow links from the UMKC course number to the corresponding course description in the General Catalog. For the third consecutive year, UMKC's men's and women's basketball coaches are participating in the nationwide Coaches Versus Cancer Three-Point Attack. The program is dedicated to fighting cancer through increased support for research, patient services and prevention education and works in partnership with the National Association of Basketball Coaches, the Women's Basketball Coaches Association and the American Cancer Society.