AACN Signs on to Legal Challenge to New NIH Funding Guidance Earlier today, AACN signed on as a plaintiff in support of a lawsuit filed by the Association of American Medical Colleges, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, Association for Schools and Programs of Public Health, and other parties challenging the new NIH guidance regarding... Tuesday, February 11, 2025 | Grant Initiatives, Membership Announcements, Policy & Advocacy, Research & Data
AACN Statement on New NIH Guidance Limiting Indirect Costs for Research Grants On February 7, 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates, which sets a standard 15% rate for all Facilities and Administrative (F&A) costs assumed by institutions of higher education receiving... Monday, February 10, 2025 | Grant Initiatives, Membership Announcements, Policy & Advocacy, Research & Data
AACN Announces 2025 Election Results for its Board of Directors and Nominating Committee AACN announces the results of its 2025 election to fill seats on the AACN Board of Directors and Nominating Committee. With votes cast by member deans from the nation’s nursing schools with baccalaureate and higher degree programs, those selected to serve as AACN’s top leaders... Thursday, February 6, 2025 | Membership Announcements, Press Release
Call for AACN Awards: Celebrating Innovation and Excellence in Academic Nursing Nominate today and shine a spotlight on excellence in nursing! AACN’s awards programs celebrate outstanding faculty, students, researchers, and schools of nursing with national recognition. Recipients will be featured at AACN conferences and showcased across the association’s... Tuesday, February 4, 2025 | Membership Announcements
Rounds with Leadership: Taking the Pulse on Essentials Implementation When AACN member schools voted to endorse the Essentials in April 2021, academic nursing made the bold decision to transform how we prepare nurses for professional practice. This turning point in nursing education set in motion a wave of curricular innovation as faculty moved to actualize a new... Wednesday, January 29, 2025 | Essentials, Rounds with Leadership
AACN’s Foundation for Academic Nursing Announces 2025 Future Nurse Leader Scholarship Award Recipients The Foundation for Academic Nursing, the philanthropic arm of AACN announces the latest graduate students to receive the Deborah E. Trautman Future Nurse Leader Scholarship. With funding provided by Liaison International, AACN’s partner in NursingCAS, the scholarship recipients... Tuesday, January 28, 2025 | Foundation, Membership Announcements, Press Release, Student News
Announcing AACN’s Technical Assistance Program for Nursing Workforce Diversity Grant Applicants With more than a decade of experience providing technical assistance to schools of nursing administering federal grants, AACN offers expert consulting to schools applying for funding through the Nursing Workforce Diversity program offered by the Health Resources and Services Administration... Monday, January 6, 2025 | Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Membership Announcements
AACN Signs on to Legal Challenge to New NIH Funding Guidance Earlier today, AACN signed on as a plaintiff in support of a lawsuit filed by the Association of American Medical Colleges, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, Association for...
AACN Statement on New NIH Guidance Limiting Indirect Costs for Research Grants On February 7, 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates, which sets a standard 15% rate for all...
Explore AACN's Data Products and Services AACN’s Research and Data Center is the nation’s leading resource for data on baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs and trends in academic nursing. Annually, it collects and...
New AACN Data Points to Enrollment Challenges Facing U.S. Schools of Nursing New data released today by AACN show that sustaining student enrollment in baccalaureate and graduate programs continues to be a challenge at U.S. schools of nursing. Though enrollment in...
Data Spotlight: A Closer Look at PhD in Nursing Program Enrollment and Graduations In 2023, AACN reported a 4.1% decline in enrollment and a 4.8% decrease in graduation rates for research-focused doctoral nursing programs from 2021 to 2022, with the North Atlantic region...
Data Spotlight: Changes in Master’s Program Enrollments and Graduations In May 2023, AACN aacnounced a second consecutive year of decline at 9.45% on average, with the western region experiencing the most significant drop at 12.49%. Historically Black Colleges...