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sake — the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing will inspire individual and collective growth as we help prepare tomorrow’s leaders and advance the field.
“This gift will support multiple areas of our mission that align so well with Elaine Marieb’s legacy,” she went on. “It will certainly allow us to move forward in those areas in a more rapid fashion than we could without it.
These areas include the university’s Center for Nursing and Engineer-
enthusiasm at the foundation about honoring Elaine Marieb’s legacy in this way, and the faith and the trust that they had in us as an institu- tion and a college to really make this gift trans- formative,” she explained. “They truly felt that the work we were doing was innovative, excit- ing, and, in many ways, unique, and this meant it was a good fit with her legacy and that they would see the impact of that gift. It was very exciting to hear the degree of enthusiasm that
Paying It Forward
The gift from the Marieb Foundation, announced on Sept. 16, is only the latest sig- nificant donation to come to UMass in recent months.
It comes after a $50 million gift from Rob and Donna Manning aimed at increasing access and opportunity across the five-campus university system (see story on page 28), and a $170 million
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ing Innovation, said Vorderstrasse, adding that the gift will also impact how the school delivers its curriculum and programs, enable enhanced use of simu- lation, and, perhaps most importantly, put more nurses in the pipeline at a time when
they are desperately
“What was really exciting to me was the enthusiasm at the
foundation about honoring Elaine Marieb’s legacy in this way, and the
faith and the trust that they had in us as an institution and a college
to really make this gift transformative. They truly felt that the work we
were doing was innovative, exciting, and, in many ways, unique, and
this meant it was a good fit with her legacy and that they would see the
impact of that gift. It was very exciting to hear the degree of enthusiasm
needed.
“There is a demand for nurses, obviously,
and for us to be able to provide a program that can facilitate nurses coming into the profession, especially here in Western Massachusetts, where we’ve seen an even more dramatic nursing shortage, is an important part of our mission.”
When asked about the gift, how it came about, and what it means for the university and its Nursing program, Vorderstrasse started by talking about the message it sends and the trust it implies, something that’s very important to her.
“What was really exciting to me was the
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they had for what we do.”
For this issue, BusinessWest talked at length
with Vorderstrasse about the many ways her pro- gram, and the university, intend to honor that trust and put this gift to work in ways that have far-reaching implications.
that they had for what we do.
gift from the Morningside Foundation to UMass Medical School, further positioning the univer- sity as a leading public education institution in the nation.
Together, these donations provide growing
Gift
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