Illinois University Nursing Program Gets DEI Grant To Promote ‘Racial Healing’

A university in Illinois has received a grant to promote “racial healing” and will hire a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) consultant to revise its nursing program.

The Department of Nursing at Elmhurst University received a $25,000 grant to hire the consultant to “ensure its Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) curriculum fully integrates diversity, equity and inclusion concepts,” the university said in a press release.

Becky Hulett, director of the school’s MSN and Doctor of Nursing Practice programs, said in the press release that the grant would “help us come up with the concepts we want to measure in our curriculum, how to measure those concepts, then integrate them into our curriculum.”

“We’re hoping to get people more comfortable talking and learning about the intersectionality of our lives and society,” she added.