Northern's College of Nursing will undergo outside review

At the request of the Montana State University-Northern College of Nursing, the dean of the MSU-Bozeman College of Nursing is bringing an evaluator from Alaska to review Northern's program.

"We wanted someone to look at it," Trish Goudie, dean of Northern's College of Nursing, said today. "We have a pretty strong program here and we're pretty proud of it."

The program drew fire this spring when students who failed to graduate from the nursing program complained to the Board of Regents.

MSU-Bozeman contracted with Tina DeLapp, director of the nursing program at the University of Alaska-Ancho...