Fee Raise To Keep Registered Nurse Program

Minnesota State Community and Technical College (MSCTC) Fergus Falls is asking for permission from the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system to increase the cost of nursing lecture courses. The extra income will maintain the registered nurse (RN) program in Fergus Falls next autumn.

This step is in reaction to strong public protest above a plan to rotate the RN program among MSCTC campuses, namely, Fergus Falls, Wadena, and Detroit Lakes, stating next autumn.

The plan to raise nursing lecture courses by $50 to approximately $191 a credit next year was accepted as satisfactory by the Students Senate before MSCTC put forward a suggestion to MnSCU's Board of Trustees in late February.

Along with similar demands from other colleges, the MnSCU's Board of Trustees will think over carefully the MSCTC suggestion at its assembly in late March.

It is being expected that tuition increase for nursing lecture course can be utilized as a way to maintain production of nurses.

The other possible solution to maintain production of nurses is not to increase tuition, but to decrease the price of gasoline in order that decrease in the price of goods and services follow. As a result, tuition will be more affordable and more students will be enrolled. Finally, MSCTC will have increased income to maintain the registered nurse program in Fergus Falls. [Via The Daily Journal]