UTPB has high hopes for fall - Satellite Spotlight

  • By labradle
  • January 4, 2013

It's a season of high expectations and high excitement at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin as college officials anticipate adding a nursing program in fall 2013 and seeing enrollment grow in its engineering programs.

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UTPB hired Dorothy Greene Jackson in June 2012 as its faculty leader. She's been busy purchasing supplies for the program, and in February, Jackson said she fielded 200 calls from people interested in the program. Jackson formerly was an assistant professor at Texas Tech University Health Science Center's School of Nursing in Odessa and also headed the associate degree nursing program at Odessa College.

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