Since January 2007, the Nursing Program in Bethel has been in full swing, with their first graduating class Fall Semester 2008! The Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation and the Kuskokwim Campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks has provided a great amount of support for the nursing program.

There is a large cultural difference between village rural values and those of a large ethnically diverse urban campus and the expansion of the UAA Associate Degree Nursing program into rural areas require an onsite RRANN Student Success Coordinator.

Evelyn Pensgard, the RRANN/NWDP Student Success Facilitator currently has 15 nursing majors and pre-nursing students and the UAA Bethel outreach site Associate Nursing program recently celebrated their first graduating class.

Sabrina Christiansen, Danica Broerman, Cheridah Wilson
Fall Semester 2008 and Spring 2009 Graduates

Gracie Nelson, Mary Devlin, Evelina Achee
Fall Semester 2008 Graduates
(graduates pictured above)

SPRING 2009 NEW STUDENTS!

Bessie Francis, Sandra Fox (front row)
Boris Forrester, Kendra Harding, Nikki Pollock, Kristen Kinegak, Kevin Phelan,
Carol Hunter, Michele Houston and Irene Beaver (not shown) (second row)

Evelyn Pensgard RRANN Student Success Facilitator P.O. Box 368 Bethel, Alaska 99559 907.543.4542 Evelyn_Pensgard@bethel.uaf.edu Kuskokwim Campus