Exciting Enhancements to Nursing Education

new building renderings

Mark & Robyn Jones

In 2021 Mark and Robyn Jones made a transformative gift of $101 million to Montana State's Nursing Program which today bears their name. The gift at the time was the largest ever given to a college of nursing, as well as the largest private gift in the history of the state of Montana. The main goals of this gift were to:

Provide funding for new facilities at each of the MSU College of Nursing’s five campuses in Bozeman, Billings, Great Falls, Kalispell and Missoula. Equipped with modern classrooms and state-of-the-art simulation labs.
Establish five endowed faculty professorships. These endowed professorships will position MSU to attract top faculty talent during a nationwide nursing faculty shortage.
Develop an endowed scholarship fund that will allow the MSU College of Nursing to keep the cost of nursing education affordable for all students.
Create Montana’s only certified nurse midwifery program preparing doctoral level nurses who will significantly increase the number of specialized maternal health care providers capable and willing to provide services to rural and remote communities in Montana. This program launched last spring and you can learn more about it here.

Mark & Robyn Jones with Dean Shannon & President Cruzado