FNU at a Glance

84 years of experience in graduate nursing and nurse-midwifery education

Students and alumni represent every U.S. state and several foreign countries

Offers the oldest and largest continually operating nurse-midwifery education program in the United States

Current enrollment of more than

2,500 students

Number of new enrollees in each program in 2022: Family Nurse Practitioner

173 Nurse-Midwifery

395 Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Offered the first family nurse practitioner program in the United States

Total degrees awarded in 2022:

1,040

85.74% Retention in 2022 (those who started in 2021 and completed their first full year in 2022)

321 Women’s Healthcare Nurse Practitioner 101 Doctor of Nursing Practice

202

49% of FNU’s students live in health professional shortage areas (HPSA) as defined by Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

Five-time (20182022) winner of the Insight Into Diversity Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award

Number of preceptor sites utilized in 2022: 2,476

Dear Friends,

Simply put, 2022 was, in many ways, the year we had been waiting for at Frontier Nursing University. While we remained vigilant, we emerged from many of the restrictions and uncertainties of the pandemic and began to fully utilize our campus in Versailles, Kentucky. It was rewarding to see the campus full of students, faculty, and staff, just as we had envisioned since purchasing the property in 2017. It is a beautiful, vibrant campus that is brought to life week after week by the energy of a new group of students.

In addition to our regular Frontier and Clinical Bounds, we hosted several other events this year. In September, we held our official ribbon-cutting ceremony. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear spoke at the event, which included several other state and local leaders. Along with the ribboncutting ceremony that same day, we held a land acknowledgment ceremony with Native American elders Helen Danser and Venus Evans as special guests. A sign acknowledging the land as the original home of the Shawnee and Cherokee people now stands at the head of our campus’ 5K walking path. Just a few weeks after that momentous day, we held our first in-person commencement ceremony since 2019. We were thrilled to welcome our graduates, their friends, and families for campus tours before and after the ceremony, which was held at historic Rupp Arena just 15 minutes away in downtown Lexington. Rupp Arena provides ample room for all our guests as well as concessions, plentiful parking, and nearby lodging and dining options. Commencement is our biggest day of the year, and it is always special when we can celebrate it in person with our students and all of their supporters.

Major events understandably stand out as highlights every year, but I am equally proud of how Frontier Nursing University continues to stand out as a leader in our field. We not only navigated moving to a new campus during a pandemic, but we adapted to every challenge, barely missing a beat. It is not always easy, but our mission and commitment to our students serve as our compass, guiding our decisions and actions through times, both good and bad.

As you will see in the following pages, we have much work to do, but we have much to celebrate as well. Our work is never-ending but always fulfilling. It is my honor to share this Annual Report, and I hope you enjoy reading about 2022 at Frontier.

Thank you for your interest in Frontier and for taking the time to read this report. We are so grateful for your meaningful and impactful support of our mission and students.

Sincerely,

Susan E. Stone, DNSc, CNM, FAAN, FACNM President

Dear Friends,

The Board of Directors of Frontier Nursing University is happy to present the 2022 President’s Annual Report. We are always proud to share this report with you because it presents an opportunity to share the many amazing accomplishments of the university, its students, faculty, and staff. We report on these items through the lens of our strategic plan, which was once again quite ambitious and true to the Frontier mission in 2022. The strategic plan is a collaborative effort involving all members of the Frontier community, including the Board of Directors, who are ultimately responsible for approving the strategic plan. Each year, I am impressed by the ambitious nature of the goals, the data-driven decision-making that went into the development of the plan, and the evidencebased recommendations toward achieving it. With high expectations and strong standards, we approach each year anxiously to see what the university accomplishes next.

In the following pages, we examine the six major goals that formed the 2022 strategic plan. We share important data but better illustrate the university’s progress toward these goals via pertinent stories about the people directly involved in them. This is an appropriate way to review the annual strategic plan because people, after all, are at the heart of our mission. Their experiences demonstrate our successes and present opportunities for further progress.

This Annual Report also provides a great opportunity for us to celebrate the many highlights of the past year. It was a fantastic year at Frontier in so many ways, including amazing personal achievements by faculty, staff, students, alumni, and, yes, even members of the Board of Directors. The official opening of the campus fulfilled our vision and perhaps even exceeded our expectations of the community atmosphere it would create and the learning environment it would provide our students. The campus also served as a centerpiece for several events and is proving to be a centerpiece for the local community.

Thank you for allowing us to share this report with you. As you read these pages, know that we are fully engaged in the 2023 strategic plan, which we hope builds upon the successes of 2022. There is a great need for the education we provide and the students we graduate. They play essential roles in communities, large and small, all across the country. That’s why the roles all of the rest of us – including you – play in supporting these students are so important. We thank you for your continued efforts and support of Frontier Nursing University.

Sincerely,

Michael Carter, DNSc, DNP, FAAN, FNP/GNP-BC Chair, Board of Directors