A Connecticut university is still waiting for approval from state officials to start offering the state's first anesthesiology assistant masters degree program — almost a year after the program was first requested, according to a Connecticut Mirror report.
According to the report, Quinnipiac University in Hamden has hired two full-time professors to run the masters degree program. University officials say the Department of High Education's approval process is too time-consuming and overly burdensome. According to a survey from the Connecticut Conference of Independence Colleges, 39 other states do not require a state agency to approve new programs.
According to an official with the Office of Financial and Academic Affairs for Higher Education, the approval process for new programs takes three to four months on average. Quinnipiac's approval has been delayed because school officials have not been able to show that students would have a job available to them after graduation. Connecticut state law requires a higher degree than a masters to become an anesthesiologist, the official said.
Read the Connecticut Mirror report on Quinnipiac University.
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According to the report, Quinnipiac University in Hamden has hired two full-time professors to run the masters degree program. University officials say the Department of High Education's approval process is too time-consuming and overly burdensome. According to a survey from the Connecticut Conference of Independence Colleges, 39 other states do not require a state agency to approve new programs.
According to an official with the Office of Financial and Academic Affairs for Higher Education, the approval process for new programs takes three to four months on average. Quinnipiac's approval has been delayed because school officials have not been able to show that students would have a job available to them after graduation. Connecticut state law requires a higher degree than a masters to become an anesthesiologist, the official said.
Read the Connecticut Mirror report on Quinnipiac University.
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