About the New Jersey Nursing Initiative Faculty Preparation Program

The New Jersey Nursing Initiative’s Faculty Preparation Program offers an exciting opportunity, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), to help people interested in becoming nurse faculty in the state.  Those selected as RWJF New Jersey Nursing Scholars receive generous benefits and support to help them complete their graduate or doctoral studies, in exchange for a commitment to teach in the state for at least three years.  The program also is developing innovative curricula to ensure that New Jersey’s institutions of higher learning are prepared to meet the health care challenges of the 21st century.

Preparing the Leaders of Tomorrow

The Faculty Preparation Program is working to develop, implement and evaluate an education curriculum that integrates education and faculty preparation into the nursing clinical masters-level and doctoral programs to prepare nurses with advanced clinical expertise as faculty/educators.

Reducing Barriers to Advanced Study

Each of the RWJF New Jersey Nursing Scholars receives a scholarship covering tuition and fees, and a $50,000 per year stipend to cover living expenses for the two to four years spent as full-time students. Each scholar also receives a laptop computer.

Filling the Pipeline

Upon graduation, Scholars make a three-year commitment to serve as full-time faculty members in New Jersey based pre-licensure nursing programs. They will increase the capacity of NJ nursing programs, helping to educate the next generation of the state’s nursing workforce.