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Alumni Connections: Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences, January 2011
In the Office of Alumni Relations at UCCS, we're working toward a number of goals for the spring semester. Within the next few weeks, you should receive a letter asking you to update your contact information, particularly your employer and job title. If you'd like to do that in advance of receiving the letter, you can do so quickly and easily on our website. As your alma mater continues to grow, we want to tell our current and prospective students about all our alumni have achieved, and you are part of that story. Thank you in advance for sharing your career progress with us. As always, suggestions for new alumni programs or feedback on what we're already doing are always welcome. Feel free to email us anytime at alumni@uccs.edu. We'd love to hear from you! Sincerely, Jennifer Hane, BA '01, MPA '04 Beth-El Alumnus Dr. Michael Rager Receives AANP Nurse Practitioner State Award for Excellence
I was nominated by my former nurse, who worked with me at a practice that serves the primary health care needs of the working uninsured. I had the honor to serve as her professor in a LPN to ADN nursing program. Then, shortly after her graduation, she began working as my nurse within the clinic, which was such an honor. I have worked within the clinic, serving the working uninsured since 2005, and as a result of being a DNP student was able to design/implement a hypertension program to serve the clinic population. This award is presented annually to a nurse practitioner in each state who has exhibited clinical excellence. Therefore, I feel very honored to have been selected from among all the nurse practitioners in the state of Kentucky. I know there are many nurse practitioners who are also deserving of the award and feel very blessed to have achieved this honor. (More) Learn more about the award online. Other News from Beth-El
CISCO, UCCS Partnership Shared with Global Audience
During the fall semester, instructors from the College of Engineering and Applied Science and the Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Science taught to students at Otero Junior College and Lamar Community College via Cisco Telepresence in addition to students on campus. In doing so, Bob Kressin and Sue Davis put UCCS in the record books. UCCS is the first university to use Telepresence to deliver for-credit college courses. (More) KRDO also aired a story about UCCS and its partnership with CISCO in UCCS IS THE FIRST COLLEGE IN THE US TO USE TELEPRESENCE. Donor's Gift Shows Devotion to UCCS Women's Athletics
And now, with a gift of a 12-foot-high sculpture that will grace the Four Diamonds Complex on North Nevada Avenue, Williams's legacy will be evident not only to his scholarship recipients, but to thousands who use these athletic fields each year. (More)
Alumni Night at Theaterworks featuring Boeing Boeing
Boeing Boeing The Matrix Center and Greenberg Center for Learning & Tolerance present Freeland
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In This IssueBeth-El Alumnus Dr. Michael Rager Receives AANP Nurse Practitioner State Award for Excellence CISCO, UCCS Partnership Shared with Global Audience Donor's Gift Shows Devotion to UCCS Women's Athletics Alumni Night at Theaterworks featuring Boeing Boeing The Matrix Center and Greenberg Center for Learning & Tolerance present Freeland Quick LinksUCCS Alumni and Friends Association Special EventsLooking for a better way to stay connected to upcoming non-alumni events at UCCS? Sign up for the Communique RSS Feed to receive timely updates about news and special events at your alma mater. January 27: January 28: January 28: February 2: February 4: February 8: February 12: April 2: April 12:
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Welcome to the January 2011 issue of Alumni Connections. We hope that the new year finds you well.
Dr. Rager, it sounds like you have been busy since graduation. The dean, faculty, and staff would like to extend our congratulations to you for receiving the 2011 AANP Nurse Practitioner State Award for Excellence which will be presented to you during the AANP 26th National Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada this June. Tell us, how is it that you came to be recognized for such a prestigious award?
William Crouch, director of extended studies, Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences, recently joined the Memorial Health System Foundation Board. He is a retired cardiothoracic surgeon and also serves on the board for AspenPointe board and the Peak Vista fundraising board.
After a semester-long experiment, UCCS and computer giant Cisco shared a new way of delivering education before a world-wide audience last week.
UCCS supporter Glenn Williams aims to level the playing field with several gifts he has made toward UCCS women's athletics these past five years—including an endowed scholarship for women athletes.
Join us on February 11 at 6:30 p.m. for UCCS Alumni Night at 
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