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Higher Education
Nurse Education Initiative
The Budget continues to provide new investments to address the statewide nursing shortage in the higher education segments and financial aid programs totaling over $21 million. Included are augmentations totaling $17.1 million for Community Colleges to further reduce attrition in nursing enrollments, startup funding for 4 new nursing programs, and one-time funding for equipment and other uses to stimulate expansion of enrollments in both nursing and allied health programs. The Budget also provides $3.6 million for CSU to increase undergraduate nursing enrollments by 340 students in the budget year, $757,000 for UC associated with increased enrollments in accelerated masters nursing degree programs, and authorization for the Student Aid Commission to award new cohorts of 100 loan assumption warrants each for the State Nursing Assumption Program of Loans for Education (SNAPLE) and for the Nurses in State Facilities APLE program to help meet clinical nursing position needs for state agencies. These additions are further detailed in the respective traditional highlights for each segment or agency below. Finally, it is noted that $2.5 million of the budget-year CTE funding plan is reserved to support second-year grants for the K-12 nursing career pathway program for school districts. With this budget, the cumulative funding provided over the last four years above normal enrollment growth totals approximately $130 million.
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