Hunter’s Bellevue School of Nursing Receives Half a Million Dollar Grant

Date: May 19, 2004
Contact: Deborah Sack (deborah.sack@hunter.cuny.edu)
Phone: (212) 772-4070

(New York, NY) – May 19, 2004 – Hunter College’s Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing has been awarded an endowment grant from the Helene Fuld Health Trust for $547,500, payable over three years. Hunter’s School of Nursing was one of ten Baccalaureate Nursing Programs in the country to receive this grant.

“We’re thrilled to receive the Fuld funding as it will have a significant impact on qualified students entering nursing during a period of major shortage,” said Dr. Diane Rendon, Director of the School of Nursing. “Hunter has a long history of involvement in New York City and the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing has been a major educator of registered nurses who care for the people in the metropolitan area.” 

The grant will create endowments to provide continuing financial aid to students seeking a Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing. 

About Hunter Bellevue School of Nursing
The Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing offers both baccalaureate and masters degrees in nursing with advanced practice programs including Maternal-Child-Care, Psychiatric and Adult Health, Community Health Nursing and Nurse Practitioner programs in Pediatric, Adult and Gerontological Nursing.  For more information about Hunter College, please visit our Web site at: http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/schoolhp/nursing

About Hunter
With a highly diverse student population of more than 20,000, Hunter is the largest college in the City University of New York (CUNY) system and the first choice among all CUNY applicants. Founded in 1870, the College offers more than 170 undergraduate and graduate programs. Hunter is noted for its professional schools in education, health sciences, nursing and social work, as well as its excellence in the liberal arts. Heralded as the "Crown Jewel of CUNY" by The Princeton Review, Hunter College has a distinguished reputation for nurturing talented minority scientists and meeting the challenge of providing high-quality science education in the 21st century. The College also oversees the Hunter College Campus Schools serving gifted and talented students, preschool through grade 12. For more information about Hunter College, please visit our Web site at http://www.hunter.cuny.edu.

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