Commonwealth of Virginia Nursing Scholarship Program
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| Web site |
Link to program web site |
| Type |
Scholarship |
| Sponsor |
Virginia Department of Health Professions Healthcare Workforce Data Center |
| Deadline |
July 31, 2010 |
| Tagged keywords |
Financial Aid, Registered Nurses, Virginia |
| Description |
This fund will provide scholarship assistance to full-time master’s or doctoral nursing students who are accepted to or enrolled in a nursing teaching program in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The purpose of this program is to increase the number of future nursing faculty by providing financial support. Additionally, this program will assist Virginia nursing schools in recruiting and retaining new nursing faculty. Recipients of these scholarships will not have to repay their scholarship as long as they are employed as a teaching faculty member at a nursing school in Virginia. |
| Amount |
Scholarship recipients will receive $20,000 per year, for up to two years, while the graduate student is completing coursework.
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| Geographic Coverage |
Virginia |
| Eligibility |
Full/part-time graduate students in a master’s or doctoral program in Virginia who, as a condition of accepting the scholarship, will agree to teach in a Virginia school of nursing.
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| Contacts |
VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
P.O. Box 2448
Richmond, Virginia 23218-2448
109 Governor Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219
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Last updated March 4, 2010
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