ELKO - Great Basin College was one of a number of schools to receive funds through the Trade Adjustment Act Community College Career Training awards program. The college was granted over $2 million in the latest round of awards.
"This money will be used in part to expand our Veterans Resource Center and our nursing program clinical sites in Winnemucca and Pahrump" stated President Mark Curtis. "We are appreciative of the ongoing confidence, by the Federal government, placed in GBC and the Nevada Community College Consortium comprised of College of Southern Nevada (CSN), Great Basin College (GBC), Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC), and Western Nevada College (WNC) by the Federal government."
Within the grant funds, the budget will provide a nursing instructor in both Pahrump and Winnemucca, which will allow GBC to increase the number of students in those areas.
"This will allow students without the ability to relocate or travel to complete the program in their home location, thus being more likely to remain there to provide needed health care services," said Vice President for Academic Affairs Mike McFarlane.
Also included is funding to develop a strategy to deliver the nursing curriculum and obtain simulation equipment and other needed materials for the two sites.
Additional support will be available for the programs in the delivery of Certified Nursing Assistant curriculum and practice lab simulation. Connections between the sites through interactive video will be enhanced.
Vice President for Student Services, Lynn Mahlberg, said that Great Basin College is opening a Veteran Resource Center in McMullen Hall on the Elko campus this month through the work of the college's Battle Born Veterans Club and the GBC Veteran Certifying Official Tawny Crum.
"Through the State of Nevada Office of Veterans Services, we have a Veteran Service Officer one day a week. This grant will provide the funding for a Veteran Resource Center Coordinator for three years to enhance and expand veteran services and resources throughout the Great Basin College service area," Mahlberg said.
Great Basin College is a member of the Nevada System of Higher Education and governed by the Board of Regents. The college is regionally accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.[[In-content Ad]]
