More than 60 MSU Nursing Students Graduate Three Weeks Early to Bolster Health Workforce

By Anne Cantrell, MSU News Service

BOZEMAN — Like thousands of other college students across the country, Montana State University nursing student Victoria Wallace-Arnold learned this spring that many of the milestones she had anticipated for her final semester could not happen as planned because of the novel coronavirus.

Classes would be moved online. Her clinical experiences would end earlier than anticipated. There would be no pinning ceremony, a special recognition celebrating entry into the nursing profession. Moreover, there would be no in-person commencement, a celebration that would ha...