The Institute of Medicine Report,?The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health?(IOM, 2010), punctuates the need for nurses to practice to the full extent of their education. The addition of an online MSN program at Nicholls broadens this opportunity for nurses within and beyond our region as the program prepares MSN students to assume leadership and advanced practice roles. Our cadre of excellent faculty are highly competent as advanced practice nurses, educators, and scholars and are committed to academic excellence and success of our students. Please join the nursing faculty and staff in congratulating Nicholls State University as it opened its MSN program in partnership with the Intercollegiate Consortium for a Master of Science in Nursing in spring of 2013.