Comments on: Legislature’s E-board approves $1.6 million for PCC to train ITT nursing students

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 18:34:21 +0000

CONGRATS! to everyone affected by this decision. Special Thanks to Elizabeth Lundy and her efforts to help these students. A big Thanks to the legislators in Salem for seeing the importance of assisting and working with local Higher Ed to help the students. As a fellow student nearing the end of my degree I fully understand the positive life changing things of career advancement or training. I am Proud to be a Student of PCC and proud of its unrelenting support of students to better their lives through education. Just another reason PCC is a leader in local Higher Ed. Well Done!

By: Stasha

Stasha — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 16:06:40 +0000

Yes I agree with said post, congrats to all the nurses that get to finish there degree!! But am very disheartened and ashamed that not all of the nursing students were included in the teach out, you don’t know what this has done to families, people’s dreams taken from them and not a care even given. Why was a ITT nurse who invested 6 months or even a year not just as important as a nurse 1 year and 1 month into there degree? Granted everyone has a different story but you don’t know the sacrifices some have made to get that 6 months or year into the program but we don’t matter? I just don’t know how this can even be ok? I am very great full that the 5th quarter and above get the opportunity to finish there degrees that’s awesome! But it is very wrong to have not let all the nurses finish there degree. Lives of people and children will be crushed by this decision all 300 nurses should of been included in this teach out not just a portion, and I do hope that yes there is a lawsuit filed in this matter, because to me every single one of us at ITT breckenridge nursing school lives matter not just 150!!

By: Nadia

Nadia — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 08:47:40 +0000

While I admire all of the work that was put into this teach out and am excited for those students who will be able to finish off what they started, being one quarter away from eligibility for this teach out is very disheartening. December 7, 2016 marked one year from the first day I stepped into ITT Tech as a nursing student. That is one whole year of sacrifices made by not just myself, but my family and those around me, lost time with my family, lost time that I could have been working, hundreds spent on gas and the required quarterly payments to ITT, all of the hard work, unending hours of studying that often lead into the next morning, tears from the stress and emotional rollercoaster that comes with the nature of nursing school, all of it, down the drain. It is very hard to believe that this teach out could not have extend to another 28-30 students who would have been in my cohort. I am heartbroken for the rest of us who were so close to making the cut. I can only hope now for a class action suit that will bring some kind of justice for us. Congratulations fellow nursing students, on the open door to finishing what you started.

By: Jim Fasulo

Jim Fasulo — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 03:21:54 +0000

Elizabeth Lundy deserves to be commended for her efforts to help those ITT nursing students- good work Elizabeth! So glad to see that pcc is acting as a partner and aiding 150 students with their desire to be complete their educational goals- a very encouraging development- Jim Fasulo

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:27:48 +0000

Congratulations! I too was a Nursing student at ITT. I was one quarter away from being included in this teach out! I will be attending PCC in January also, just not part of this. I am amazed at the compassion and hard work for my fellow nursing students!!