FYI: Connecticut State University Schools To Offer Nursing Education Doctorates - Hartford Courant

Gov. M. Jodi Rell signed a bill today allowing Central, Eastern, Southern and Western Connecticut state universities to award doctoral degrees in nursing education.

The degree programs are part of an effort to develop more nursing professors.

Rell signed the bill during a press conference at Western Connecticut State University, calling it an important job-creation measure that will help the state meet a critical need for more nurses.