Rebecca Neiduski, the dean of Elon s School of Health Sciences, has been named president of Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. Neiduski will become the 18th president of the college, and its first.
In August, Elon University expects to have its first 112 nursing students on campus about two years after deciding to start a nursing department.
“Which is really fast,” said Becky Neiduski, dean of the School of Health Sciences, which now includes the nursing department.
The university last week named Tiffany Morris its first chair of the new nursing department. She has nearly 30 years in nursing and administrative experience from N.C. A&T University, where she was an interim assistant dean in its school of nursing.
There has been a national nursing shortage for decades now, particularly in the South and West. Enrollment in nursing programs increased by 5% just in 2019, but those programs are still not graduating enough students to catch up, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.