St. Francis College was recently granted a 10-year accreditation from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), an agency within the U.S. Department of Education. It allows the college to continue to offer its nursing program to students for the next 10 years. It also makes the program eligible for federal grants.
The COVID-19 pandemic overshadowed much of the college experience for this year’s graduating class, but nursing school graduates may have felt this more acutely.
Three weeks ago, Vincent LeVien’s day-to-day activities looked much different than they do right now. Taking a phone call from the streets of New York City with sirens blaring in the distance, on a Friday afternoon he is already in the thick of delivering personal protective equipment (PPE) to doctors, nurses, FDNY, EMS and police forces across the New York metropolitan area.
