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“We Want to Be the Most Inclusive University in the Country” - Dr. Janelle Sokolowich, Academic Vice President and Dean of the Leavitt School of Healt…
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“We Want to Be the Most Inclusive University in the Country” - Dr. Janelle Sokolowich, Academic Vice President and Dean of the Leavitt School of Healt…
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32 minutes
Released:
Jun 7, 2023
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Podcast episode
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After battling chronic illness as a child, Dr. Janelle Sokolowich swore she’d never step foot in a hospital again and started pursuing a different path in college. But life had a way of bringing her back to the world of medicine. “I started thinking back to all the nurses that made such an impact on me as a child and helped me to grow up to be a functioning adult,” she explains to host Michel Carrese. Now as academic vice president and dean of the Leavitt School of Health at Western Governors University, Dr. Sokolowich is in a position to help many others like herself pay it forward by becoming healthcare providers. The school serves 20,000 to 30,000 students per month and seventeen percent of all BSN holders in the country are graduates, but Sokolowich is keenly aware this can be an unattainable dream when cost and other factors come into play. That’s why Leavitt strives to keep tuition low and her performance as Dean is evaluated based on how much debt students have when they graduate, and if they are earning a livable wage two years post-graduation. “We want to be the most inclusive university in the country and we see ourselves as personally responsible for advancing health equity through education.” Check out this thoughtful conversation about competency-based education, strategies for meeting health needs in rural America and the importance of mentoring. “I want to build that next set of nurse leaders and I take it personally, because I have been gifted and blessed with many that have done it for me.”Mentioned in this episode: https://www.wgu.edu/online-nursing-health-degrees.html
Released:
Jun 7, 2023
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Podcast episode
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