Georgia Southern University’s School of Nursing was recently chosen as part of a test program in which 100 schools received funding to pilot their first-ever White Coat Ceremony. The school celebrated the event on Friday, Sept. 19, at the Performing Arts Center. The ceremony was the result of a collaborative partnership between The Arnold P. Gold Foundation and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.“Being chosen to participate in the inaugural White Coat Ceremony acknowledges the stellar reputation that the School of Nursing programs at Georgia Southern University have at the national level,” said Jean Bartels, Ph.D., a former nursing colleges association president and the provost and vice president for academic affairs at Georgia Southern University.