Adds Janice Bonanno, Bunker Hill’s dean of student affairs, “The pressure is on us. We added evening and weekend programs partly because of this, but there is no easy answer.” What educators agree on, though, is that more students such as Hebert and Valinoti will enroll at community colleges.
For Valinoti, the choice became clear when he realized his tuition at Bunker Hill would run only $5,500, while Johns Hopkins, Duke and others would cost $40,000 or more. He had never even heard of Bunker Hill until one day at MIT, while being treated at the student health center, he mentioned his interest in nursing to a staff member. “I found out pretty quickly it doesn’t matter where I get my R.N.,” he says. “And for me, it really is about the quickest way and the most cost-effective way.”
--Lydia Lum
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