The Higher Learning Commission has approved Salina Area Technical College’s plan to offer an Associate of Applied Science in Nursing program beginning this fall. The program was approved by the Kansas State Board of Nursing and the Kansas Board of Regents this past September. This is the second new nursing program started at Salina Tech in [...]
The Kansas Department of Commerce has awarded Salina Area Technical College a $210,000 grant to help with the start-up costs of the college’s planned Associate Degree in Nursing program. The grant was through the Department’s Jobs and Innovative Industry Skills Training (JIIST) program. The planned Associate Degree in Nursing program will be the second nursing program [...]
Enrollment at Salina Area Technical College rose 27% in the fall of 2018 compared to the previous fall, according to information collected on September 20th for reporting to the Kansas Board of Regents. According to the enrollment data, Salina Tech had a total of 435 Full Time Equivalent students, compared with 342 at this time in 2017. [...]
The Kansas Board of Regents gave its formal approval Thursday morning to Salina Area Technical College’s plan to start an Associate of Registered Nursing program in the fall of 2019. This approval comes after last week’s approval of the program by the Kansas State Board of Nursing. The college started a Practical Nursing program in August [...]
The Dane G. Hansen Foundation has awarded $100,000 to Salina Area Technical College to fund the Dane G. Hansen Foundation Medical Scholarship Program for students in the college’s new nursing program. Recipients of the scholarships must agree to work in the 26-county region of northwest Kansas that the Foundation serves. That region includes Saline County and [...]
Robinson said opportunities for training at Salina Area Technical College, and through high school programs, are good selling points for Saline County. Greg Nichols, president of Salina Tech, said the college would work with any employer to train new recruits or retrain existing workers who might be under-utilized. A welder at PKM Steel works on [...]
KAKE-TV had Salina Tech President Greg Nichols on the Mid-day News on Dec. 19 to talk about the college's new Practical Nursing program. See the interview at KAKE.com
The state of Kansas is expected to need 200 new nurses per year for the next 10 years, and starting next fall the Salina Area Technical College will be offering a practical nursing program for up to 40 students to help meet that need. Salina Tech President Greg Nichols said more than 50 applications have already [...]
More opportunities for nursing education soon will be available in Salina, thanks to programs being launched by Kansas Wesleyan University and Salina Area Technical College. Salina Tech Monday announced plans to begin a one-year practical nursing program with a 40-student capacity beginning in the fall of 2018, to be followed by a two-year associate in nursing [...]
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