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Board staff recommends awards from nursing workforce grant; TEA places item on consent agenda
Summary
Board staff recommended awards from a state nursing workforce development grant after a review of 37 applications; the Technical Education Authority voted to place the recommendation on the TEA consent agenda for the Board of Regents.
Director Brown, director of the Board of Regents academic affairs staff, told the Technical Education Authority that the board office received 37 proposals for a nursing workforce grant and recommended awards after an initial review.
“We have received 37 proposals. In my time at the board office, this has never happened before,” Director Brown said. She told the TEA that the review committee — which included Academic Affairs Board Office staff, workforce development staff, Kansas Board of Nursing staff and Kansas Hospital Association staff — scored applications and summarized recommended awards.
The grants include a set-aside to help programs either obtain national accreditation or improve first-time NCLEX passing scores, Director Brown said. She identified four applications seeking accreditation support and two applying for NCLEX score-improvement funding, and she described common budget requests, including assessment technology (ATI), tutoring and test-preparation services such as Kaplan, stipends for faculty, simulation mannequins and medication-dispensing systems.
Curtis, a TEA member, asked how recommended amounts compared with requested amounts and how staff analyzed budgets. Director Brown said institutions submit a narrative, a line-item budget and a sustainability explanation and that the review committee scored each application; this year staff did not reduce requests except when items were unallowable under grant rules.
Curtis moved to approve placement of the staff recommendation on the TEA consent agenda at the next meeting; David, a TEA member, seconded. There was no recorded opposition, and the chair stated the motion passed.
The item will therefore appear on the TEA consent agenda for the Board of Regents to consider at its next meeting; staff said formal award decisions will follow the Board’s consent process.
Why it matters: The grants are intended to expand capacity and quality in nursing education by helping new programs seek accreditation and by supporting interventions tied to higher first-time NCLEX pass rates. The TEA’s placement of the recommendation on the consent agenda moves the awards toward final Board of Regents approval without separate discussion at the full TEA meeting.
