UMMC Fires Most Instructors for Oxford Nursing Program, Accused of Treating Them Like Criminals.
The University of Mississippi Medical Center has let go of most of the instructors at its Oxford-based accelerated bachelors of science in nursing program, causing concern among current and former students about their chances of passing the national nursing exam. The move, announced last week, came in the middle of the program’s one-year cycle. Students received an email on May 1 that described the decision as “difficult” a few hours after five of the program’s seven faculty members were informed that UMMC would not renew their contracts this summer.