{"id":15736,"date":"2017-04-26T16:40:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quantumnew.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=15736"},"modified":"2017-04-28T09:06:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T13:06:51","slug":"esu-set-to-graduate-first-cohort-of-nccesu-nursing-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/esu-set-to-graduate-first-cohort-of-nccesu-nursing-students\/","title":{"rendered":"ESU Set to Graduate First Cohort of NCC\/ESU Nursing Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In February 2016 East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania and Northampton Community College signed an agreement to accelerate the completion of Bachelor of Science in nursing degrees. NCC students who graduated from its registered nursing program can transfer seamlessly to ESU\u2019s BSN program. This May, the first cohort of NCC students will graduate from ESU.<\/p>\n<p>Students who begin the courses required for the bachelor\u2019s degree in the spring can complete the program in 18 months. All ESU courses are offered at the NCC Bethlehem campus and there are full-time and evening part-time options.<\/p>\n<p>For Heather Tucker, choosing ESU to further her degree was simple. After getting her three children through college, Tucker was ready to go back to school herself. \u201cFor me, ESU was the most affordable option,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was also nice to know I\u2019d be done in 18 months.\u201d Tucker liked having the option to take her ESU classes at NCC, a campus she was already familiar with. \u201cIt was great to be in a flexible program that allowed me to keep working as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the cooperative nursing program, contact William Bajor, Ph.D., director of graduate and extending studies at ESU at 570-422-3588 or <a href=\"mailto:wbajor@esu.edu\">wbajor@esu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February 2016 East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania and Northampton Community College signed an agreement to accelerate the completion of Bachelor of Science in nursing degrees.<span class=\"newshide\"> NCC students who graduated from its registered nursing program can transfer seamlessly to ESU\u2019s BSN program. This May, the first cohort of NCC students will graduate from ESU<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":15738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,42,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news-release","category-nursing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15763,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15736\/revisions\/15763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}