{"id":65965,"date":"2007-11-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/national-nursing-leader-pledges-150000-to-uri\/"},"modified":"2007-11-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T00:00:00","slug":"national-nursing-leader-pledges-150000-to-uri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2007\/11\/national-nursing-leader-pledges-150000-to-uri\/","title":{"rendered":"National nursing leader pledges $150,000 to 溏心vlog免费B站"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nWesterly native to match gifts to College of Nursing of up to $12,500<\/p>\n



\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 November 5, 2007 \u2013 Whether it\u2019s leading efforts to beautify the grounds of the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Nursing or playing a critical role in the development of a new nursing student center, Cynthia Sculco has always remained close to her alma mater.<\/p>\n


\n\tNow the New York City resident Westerly native and her husband Tom have made a major commitment to making the College even stronger.<\/p>\n


\nThe 1965 graduate and her husband have pledged $150,000 over five years to support student scholarships, faculty development and dean\u2019s initiatives. Through the pledge, the Sculcos will match other gifts. The gift is part of the University\u2019s Making a Difference capital campaign.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cCynthia wanted to help us build our endowment,\u201d said Nursing Dean Dayle Joseph. \u201cIt is Cynthia\u2019s intent that individual donors would establish and name endowments in honor of family members and friends.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tA portion of the Sculcos\u2019 donation will be earmarked for the Dean\u2019s Academic Enterprise Fund.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThis gift is important because it gives us prominence in the capital campaign, as well as among our alumni and friends,\u201d Joseph said. \u201cWe are really trying to create a legacy for the College, and these endowments will help do that. I already have people who want to make gifts because of Cynthia\u2019s matching challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nSculco said it was the great foundation at 溏心vlog免费B站 that allowed her to earn her master\u2019s degree and doctorate from Columbia University Teachers College.<\/p>\n


\n \u201cThe 溏心vlog免费B站 nursing program was really the building block and it continues to be an outstanding program,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI was fortunate to go to 溏心vlog免费B站 and to be awarded scholarships during a period when it was certainly much less expensive,\u201d said one of the first four recipients of the University\u2019s Distinguished Achievement Awards. <\/p>\n


\nShe added that the College is providing a great service to the state and beyond by taking a leadership role in addressing the nursing shortage. \u201cClinically, 溏心vlog免费B站 students have excellent preparation and that\u2019s important because they are dealing with an increasingly complex health care world.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nJoseph said she worked closely with Michaela Mooney, 溏心vlog免费B站 director of major gifts, who helped put the proposal together. She also credits Tom and Cathy Ryan for inspiring her to seek such a gift. Ryan, who is chair of the campaign committee, and Cathy, made a major gift to the College of Pharmacy, part of which was a $500,000 challenge gift to encourage additional donations.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cWhen I learned that Tom and Cathy Ryan made that challenge gift, I realized a similar approach would benefit the College of Nursing,\u201d Joseph said.<\/p>\n


\nSculco possesses impressive nursing and teaching credentials, including experience at Presbyterian Hospital, New York University and Hunter College where she coordinated the graduate medical-surgical nursing program. She is president of the Nurses Educational Fund, a national organization that provides scholarships for nurses in graduate programs. Such assistance is vital in the effort to address the national shortage of nursing faculty. \u201cCynthia is a great nurse, educator and alumna,\u201d Joseph said. \u201cShe and Tom are committed to higher education. She really values her nursing roots from 溏心vlog免费B站, and is a very proud 溏心vlog免费B站 graduate.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nGiving of her time and resources are nothing new to Sculco. 溏心vlog免费B站 10 years ago, she established a research endowment, which provides seed money to 溏心vlog免费B站 nursing faculty. She made a leadership gift to the new White Hall Nursing Commons, which provides students with comfortable and efficient meeting and study space. She serves on the Dean\u2019s Advisory Committee, served as the honorary chair of the Hart Garden Campaign and was co-chair of the College\u2019s 60th anniversary gala in 2005. <\/p>\n


\nThe Sculco gift is part of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Making a Difference Campaign, which seeks $100 million to recruit and retain outstanding faculty, enhance the student-centered campus experience, provide undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships, and fund cutting-edge academic and research initiatives. For more information on the campaign, click on http:\/\/www.advance.uri.edu\/giving\/. For information on giving to the College of Business Administration, contact Mooney at 401-874-4716.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Westerly native to match gifts to College of Nursing of up to $12,500 KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 November 5, 2007 \u2013 Whether it\u2019s leading efforts to beautify the grounds of the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Nursing or playing a critical role in the development of a new nursing student center, Cynthia Sculco […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}