Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a student at Frontier Nursing University (FNU)? The video below offers an inside look at FNU. Hear from nurse-midwife and nurse practitioner students as they describe their unique experiences. You can also read some of their comments below. Do you have a story of your own to share? Send it to us at FNUnews@frontier.edu.
Madison Huff, Nurse Practitioner Student
“The distance education has been really great because with this day and age both people in a family typically work and it’s not feasible to go and live somewhere else for a long time. So being able to do it from your home, kind of on your time, is really beneficial to families and if you have to maintain a career while you’re going to school.”
Alesia Traeye, Nurse Practitioner Student
“When you come together, you see people in the room that look very different from you or are from different geographic areas, and they have the same goals as you. It’s kind of surreal, but it’s really cool to see that live experience, and you exchange information and experiences and you learn from each other.”
Kristine Twite Lehnen, Nurse-Midwife Student
“I don’t ever feel like I’m alone even though I’m halfway across the country. I feel like I’ve still got a really tight-knit community. The professors are really great about responding to email right away, calling you if you’ve got questions or you can call them. So I feel like people are always there for you.”
Brian Webster, Graduate and Faculty Member
“When I started applying for schools and looking at schools Frontier really stood out because rural and underserved patient populations are very important to the university and important to their mission.”
Stephanie Allotey, Nurse-Midwife Student
“I feel like I’m answering the call, the same call Mary Breckinridge answered to, by choosing to attend Frontier to become a nurse-midwife in order to be able to help my home country later on in life.”
About Frontier Nursing University:
The mission of FNU is to educate nurses to become competent, entrepreneurial, ethical and compassionate nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners who are leaders in the primary care of women and families with an emphasis on underserved and rural populations. FNU offers graduate Nurse-Midwifery and Nurse-Practitioner distance education programs that can be pursued full- or part-time with the student’s home community serving as the classroom. Degrees and options offered include Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) or Post-Graduate Certificates. To learn more about FNU and the programs and degrees offered, please visit Frontier.edu
Dr. Tia Brown McNair is the Vice President in the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Student Success and Executive Director for the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) in Washington, DC. She oversees both funded projects and AAC&U’s continuing programs on equity, inclusive excellence, high-impact practices, and student success. McNair directs AAC&U’s Summer Institutes on High-Impact Practices and Student Success, and TRHT Campus Centers and serves as the project director for several AAC&U initiatives, including the development of a TRHT-focused campus climate toolkit. She is the lead author of From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education (January 2020) and Becoming a Student-Ready College: A New Culture of Leadership for Student Success (July 2016 and August 2022 Second edition).