UMSON will participate in the Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program for Returned Peace Corps Volunteers for an additional five years.
The University of Maryland School of Nursing (UMSON) has renewed its partnership with the U.S. Peace Corps to participate in the Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program for Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) for an additional five years, after its launch of the program in 2017. It is the only school at the University of Maryland, Baltimore to offer the program. After serving in countries around the world, RPCVs can apply to UMSON and for the Coverdell Fellowship, which offers a scholarship equal to approximately 25% of the student’s tuition and fees.
Each year, UMSON accepts one or two RPCVs as Fellows. These students bring their global expertise to communities and neighborhoods in Baltimore while studying at UMSON, which offers them an opportunity to apply their global expertise and unique perspectives to enter or advance in a career in nursing. Through service-learning experiences, they work to improve people’s lives in underserved communities, build upon the skills and expertise they developed during their Peace Corps service, and advance the Peace Corps’ third goal: bringing the world back home.
At UMSON, fellows can earn an entry Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree or a Master of Science in Nursing degree in either the entry-into-nursing Clinical Nurse Leader option or the Community/Public Health Nursing specialty.