FNU Board Member Provides New $50,000 Scholarship

A new scholarship will provide $50,000 over a two-year period to cover full tuition and expenses for a Frontier Nursing University student who demonstrates financial need. The recipient of this scholarship will be determined this spring and will be awarded $25,000 in both 2023 and 2024.

Bill Corley, a member of the FNU Board of Directors, is funding the scholarship in support of the university’s mission and its particular focus on preparing nursemidwives and nurse practitioners to serve rural and underserved areas.

“We see the shortage of hospitals and doctors, particularly in rural and underserved areas,” Corley said. “More than ever, it is important to have very educated nurses in these areas.”

Corley, who served as the director of plans and operations for the 3rd Field Hospital for the U.S. Army in Saigon, Vietnam, went on to a lengthy career in healthcare administration. He served as the Associate Hospital Director at the Albert B. Chandler Medical Center, University of Kentucky, from 1971 to 1975. In 1975, he was named the hospital director of Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania. In 1978 he was hired as president and CEO of Akron General Medical Center in Ohio.

For 25 years, he served as president and chief executive officer of the Community Health Network in Indianapolis. As a non-profit health system with more than 200 sites of care and affiliates throughout Central Indiana, Community Health’s full continuum of care integrates hundreds of physicians, specialty and acute care hospitals, surgery centers, home care services, MedChecks, behavioral health, and employer health services. In 1990, Corley received the highest honor bestowed on individuals by Indiana’s Governor — The Sagamore of the Wabash (Evan Bayh 1990), which is given to those who have rendered distinguished service to the state or to the governor.

“People need to know about Frontier Nursing University,” Corley said. “I am happy to be able to provide this scholarship because I know how important the work being done at Frontier and by their graduates is in so many underserved communities across the country.”

Editor’s Note: To create or donate to a scholarship, please contact Chief Advancement Officer Bobbi Silver via email at bobbi. silver@frontier.edu.