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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | | WHEREAS, The Mennonite Sanitarium Training School was |
| 3 | | founded in Bloomington on January 23, 1919; the first
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| 4 | | commencement took place in 1922 with 15 graduates; and
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| 5 | | WHEREAS, In 1982,
the Mennonite College of Nursing was |
| 6 | | established; in 1985, the last graduation ceremony for diploma |
| 7 | | students
was held, and the first degrees from the Mennonite |
| 8 | | College of Nursing (MCN) were awarded; in 1995, the Master of
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| 9 | | Science in Nursing Program was approved; and
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| 10 | | WHEREAS, The Mennonite College of Nursing became Illinois |
| 11 | | State University's sixth academic college on July 1, 1999; |
| 12 | | during the past 16 years, the
college has increased its |
| 13 | | undergraduate enrollment, added two sequences to the master's |
| 14 | | program, created a
doctoral program that includes a Doctor of |
| 15 | | Philosophy in Nursing and an online Doctor of Nursing Practice, |
| 16 | | and created an accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing |
| 17 | | option; a state-of-art nursing simulation lab was opened in |
| 18 | | 2011; and
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| 19 | | WHEREAS, The Illinois State University Mennonite
College |
| 20 | | of Nursing has maintained important traditions while |
| 21 | | transforming into an innovative, future-oriented
program; |
| 22 | | therefore, be it
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